A landmark in British journalism

Today marks a landmark in British journalism.  Whilst I might be referring to the news that today sees 'The Times' (www.thetimes.co.uk) publishing its 70,000th edition, I am in fact referring to the fact that Edward Fennell, the long-standing contributor to its law section, describes himself as "breaking new ground" by referring to iPhone apps for lawyers!

They're beginning to emerge everywhere - and with the launch next week of the MSI Global Alliance (www.msiglobal.org) iPhone app for lawyers and accountants, we hope to take the lead among the international networks and associations as being the first such grouping to have its directory available as an app.  All exciting stuff, but not the purpose of this blog.

More interesting in today's 'Times' was the comment that many law firms are being criticised for reducing staff and partner numbers drastically whilst, at the same time, allowing partner incomes to rise significantly.

But without wishing to be unduly cynical, why is this such a surprise?  Many law firms were thought to be using the downturn to cull underperforming partners and staff - and indeed to go further by cutting complete departments.  The criticism of firms should not be that they did this - but that they had tolerated such underperformance for so long during the good times.

And the next challenge will be to keep firms lean and mean - and profitable - as and when things begin to pick up.

James Mendelssohn (jmendelssohn@msiglobal.org)
Chief Executive, MSI Global Alliance

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