LAW FIRM EVOLUTION:
BRAVE NEW WORLD OR BUSINESS AS USUAL?
Georgetown Center for the Study of the Legal Profession
Georgetown University Law Center
March 21-23, 2010
Sunday, March 21, Eric E. Hotung International Law Building, Faculty Dining Room, 2nd floor
6:00 Dinner Reception and Panel Discussion: Emerging Relationships Between Law Firms and Clients
Presentation:
The Smarter Legal Model: More from Less: Trevor Faure, Global General Counsel and Partner, Ernst & Young Global
Moderator:
Lisa Rohrer, Director of Research, Hildebrandt Baker Robbins
Panelists:
Susan Hackett, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Association of Corporate Counsel
Thomas D. Yannucci, Chair Emeritus, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Reena SenGupta, Managing Director, RSG Consulting
Monday, March 22
9:15-10:45 Panel 1: Creative Destruction and Innovation
Presentations:
David McGowan, Lyle L. Jones Professor of Competition and Innovation Law, University of San Diego Law School, and Attorney, Durie Tangri LLP, San Francisco; Bernard A. Burk, Director (Partner), Litigation Department, Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, A Professional Corporation, Coase, Schumpeter, and the Future of the (Law) Firm
Larry Ribstein, Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Chair in Law and Associate Dean for Research, University of Illinois Law School, The Death of BigLaw [Presentation]
Moderator:
James W. Jones, Co-Managing Director, Hildebrandt Baker Robbins; Chairman of the Hildebrandt Institute
Panelists:
William J. Perlstein, Co-Managing Partner, WilmerHale
Mark Chandler, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary, Cisco [Presentation]
Jeffrey K. Haidet, Chairman, McKenna Long & Aldridge
First Questioner:
William Henderson, Professor of Law and Harry T. Ice Faculty Fellow, and Director, Center on the Global Legal Profession, Indiana University Mauer School of Law
11:15-12:45 Panel 2: Emerging Trends in Legal Services
Presentations:
Michele DeStefano Beardslee, Associate Professor of Law, University of Miami Law School, Hiring Teams from Rivals: Theory and Evidence on the Evolving Relationships in the Corporate Legal Market (co-authors: David Wilkins, John Coates & Ashish Nanda) [Presentation]
Mari Sako, Professor of Management Studies, Novak Druce Center for Professional Service Firms, Said Business School, University of Oxford, Make or Buy Decisions: Theory and Evidence in Legal Services [Presentation]
Moderator:
Montgomery Kosma, Vice- President, Legal Services Outsourcing, CPA Global
Panelists:
Paul Smith, Partner, Eversheds
Leah Cooper, Director of Strategy, CPA Global
12:45-2:15 Lunch Roundtable: Career Paths and Labor Markets
Sponsored by McKenna Long & Aldridge
Moderator and Panelist:
Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York
Panelists:
Scott A. Westfahl, Director of Professional Development, Goodwin Procter LLP
Bruce McLean, Partner and Chairman, Akin Gump
Deborah Epstein Henry, Founder and President, Flex-Time Lawyers LLC [Presentation]
2:15-3:45 Panel 3: Business Models: Strategy and Governance
Presentations:
Stephen Mayson, Director, Legal Services Policy Institute; Professor of Strategy, The College of Law, London, Business Models in Legal Practice: Toward Definition and Assessment
Peter Sherer, Associate Professor, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, Will There Be a Chaing of the Guard? Law Firm Lessons from the Great Depression [Presentation]
Moderator:
Bruce MacEwen, President, Adam Smith, Esq. [Presentation]
Panelists:
Ralph Baxter, Chairman and CEO, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
Dan DiPietro, Advisory Head and Managing Director, The Law Firm Group, Citi Private Bank
First Questioner:
Mitt Regan, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center; Co-Director, Center for the Study of the Legal Profession
4:00-5:30 Panel 4: Rethinking Legal Education and Training
Presentations:
Thomas D. Morgan, Oppenheim Professor of Antitrust and Trade Regulation Law, George Washington University Law School, Abandoning Homogeneity in Legal Education
Jordan Furlong, Partner, Edge International; Blogger, Law21; Senior Consultant, Stem Legal, The Return of the Apprentice: New Lawyer Training Models for the 21st Century [Presentation]
Moderator:
James E. Moliterno, Vincent Bradford Professor of Law, Washington & Lee Law School
Panelists:
José M. de Areilza, Dean of IE Law School, Madrid
Heather Bock, Chief Professional Development Officer, Howrey LLP; Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown Law Center [Presentation]
First Questioner:
Elizabeth Chambliss, Professor of Law and Co-Director, Center for Professional Values and Practice, New York Law School
6:30 Dinner and Panel Discussion
Presentation:
What Is Our Legacy To The Next Generation Of Lawyers? Richard Susskind, IT Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England; Visiting Professor, Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University; Honorary and Emeritus Law Professor, Gresham College, London
Moderator and Panelist:
Paul Lippe, Founder and CEO, Legal On-Ramp
Panelists:
John Palfrey, Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law; Vice Dean, Library and Information Resources, Harvard Law School; Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Mark Harris, CEO and Founder, Axiom [Presentation]
Jeffrey W. Carr, Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, FMC Technologies Inc. [Presentation]
Tuesday, March 23
8:45-9:00 Opening Remarks
Ted Burke, Chief Executive and Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer [Presentation]
9:00-10:30 Panel 5: Managing the Law Firm Labor Force
Presentations:
Paul Oyer, Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Layoffs, Lawyers, and Learning (co-author: Scott Schaefer) [Presentation]
Sida Liu, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Law, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Chinese Law Firms After the Financial Crisis: The Case of Shanghai (co-author: Xueyao Li)
Moderator:
Aric Press, Editor in Chief, The American Lawyer
Panelists:
Patricia Gillette, Partner, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe; founder, Opt-In Project [Presentation]
Peter Zeughauser, Chairman, Zeughauser Group
First Questioner:
Kenneth Dau-Schmidt, Willard & Margaret Carr Professor of Labor and Employment Law, Indiana University Mauer School of Law
11:00-12:30 Panel 6: Capitalizing Law Firms
Presentations:
Anthony Sebok, Professor of Law, Cardozo Law School, Third-Party Litigation Funding [Presentation]
Andrew von Nordenflycht, Assistant Professor, Strategy, Faculty of Business, Simon Fraser University Faculty of Business, The Consolidation of the Global Advertising Industry: Lessons for Law Firms? [Presentation]
Moderator:
Anthony E. Davis, Partner, Lawyers for the Profession® practice group, Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP
Panelists:
Timothy Scrantom, President, Juridica Capital Management (US) Inc. [Presentation]
John Flood, Professor of Law and Sociology, University of Westminster, UK [Presentation]
First Questioner:
William W. Bratton, Peter P. Weidenbruch, Jr. Professor of Business Law, Georgetown University Law Center
12:45-2:00 Lunch Roundtable: Challenges of Globalization
Sponsored by CPA Global
Moderator:
Friedrich Blase, Kerma Partners
Panelists:
Wendy Collins Perdue, Associate Dean, Graduate Programs; Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Sally F. King, Regional Chief Operating Officer, Clifford Chance
Jeffrey Lehman, Chancellor and Founding Dean, Peking University School of Transnational Law, Shenzhen, China
Edward A. Ryan, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Marriott International, Inc.
2:00-2:15 Concluding Remarks
David B. Wilkins, Lester Kissel Professor of Law and Director, Program on the Legal Profession, Harvard Law School
Additional Material
- Jeff Carr, “Lessons Learned” including Hot Wash
- Laura Empson, Director of the Centre for Professional Service Firms; Professor in the Management of Professional Service Firms, Cass Business School, City of London, Evolution and Revolution in the Governance of Law Firms
- Eversheds, “Law firm of the 21st century: The clients’ revolution”
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Milton C. Regan, Jr., Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of the Legal Profession, Georgetown University Law Center & Palmer T. Heenan, Georgetown University Law Center, Class of 2011, Supply Chains and Porous Boundaries: The Disaggregation of Legal Services, 78 Fordham L. Rev. 101 (2010) (forthcoming).
