There is a new hype: ChatGPT version 3.5. First launched 30 November 2022 this publicly available natural language processing tool immediately caught the attention of the media and the public. It allows to have high quality human like conversations with a chatbot, which I must admit is pretty cool. Up till then, conversations with chatbots were invariably cumbersome, frustrating and stupid. Natural Language Processing consists of two main elements: the language + the content. ChatGPT is impressively good when it comes to the language. The algorithm has been trained to predict which words are most likely to be used and in what order. The language and grammar of the tool could indeed be mistaken for real. This as such is a major technological achievement. The second element is the content. This is where things get a bit obscure. Even though ChatGPT responds like a human, unlike a real person it does not have any knowledge or understanding. ChatGPT sources its information on the internet, and that spells trouble. ChatGPT runs a high likelihood of producing bullshit in a very convincing and coherent manner. ChatGPT will always sound plausible, but could be totally wrong. So, while the Natural Language Processing part is groundbreaking, the content part is far from perfect. Training AI is not straightforward Algorithms need to be trained with vast amounts of data. The quality of these datasets will have a huge impact on the end product. It is tempting to use the internet as a source, but that invariably is a bad idea. In December 2022 Melissa Heikkilä (she/her) published an article in MIT Technology Review. She tried viral AI avatar app Lensa to make an avatar of herself. For her male colleagues at MIT the app generated realistic and flattering avatars —think astronauts, warriors, and electronic music album covers. However for Melissa, being a woman, Lensa created tons of nudes. Out of 100 avatars she generated, 16 were topless, and another 14 had her in extremely skimpy clothes and overtly sexualized poses. Only after she told the algorithm she was a male, Lensa produced flattering avatars like it had done for her colleagues. This is a great example of how the data used to train the algorithms affect the results later on. Lensa relies on a free-to-use machine learning model called Stable Diffusion, which was trained on billions of image-and-text combinations scraped from the internet. One just need to look at Instagram to recognize that women often place ‘sexy’ images of themselves. The internet is not a good source to train AI on. This is as true for Lensa as it is for ChatGPT (or any other tool). ChatGPT in the legal industry Lawyers use and process language a lot. Perhaps with the exception of writers, journalists and academics, no profession has language at the core like the legal profession. With that in mind the question arises if ChatGPT will disrupt the legal industry? Personally I think it will not. Let me explain: 1. Where will the content come from? Obviously lawyers at a law firm will not use Google as a source, so in order to use ChatGTP or a derivative, law firms need to feed it with their own datasets. These datasets need to be clean, meaning that every bit of data needs to be vetted before. Data must also be updated on a permanent basis. For many law firms this will be a hurdle they cannot take. 2. Will there be a return on the investment? Purchasing the AI tool and preparing the dataset will require a substantial investment. Further licensing fees and maintenance will add to the cost. Such an investment will only make sense if it will help the law firm to make more money. The question is will it? In this context I would like to point you towards an analysis by Lexoo which was recently shared by its CEO Daniel van Binsbergen. Lexoo analyzed how AI and Machine Learning could speed up contact review. It started with the assumption that such tools could save 50% of a lawyer’s time. It turned out to be 5% in reality! So AI/Machine learning would have very little real-world impact. Side note: this is why inhouse teams that have adopted machine learning have not magically freed up 50% of their time… Even in the unlikely event that the employment of ChatGPT would lead to substantial time savings for lawyers, this still wouldn’t mean there is a business model. If lawyers spend less billable time, this needs to be compensated for by higher rates or more work volume, otherwise it will be a lossmaking operation. The third option would be to employ fewer lawyers, but that would assume the ‘idle time’ could be pinpointed to one or more individuals, which will not be the case. 3. The Technology Paradox Once technology is introduced to simplify our lives, we humans get less experience. Today we have to drive our own cars. In the future there might be fully autonomous cars that do the driving for us. This will make us less experienced as drivers, so when something goes wrong, it will go dramatically wrong because the human lacks the experience to intervene. The legal profession runs the same risk. The present generation of lawyers already has the experience and will probably save little or no time using a ChatGPT based tool. The future generation of lawyers using such a tool will have less experience and will likely struggle to assess the results and identify issues, omissions or mistakes produced by the tool. Parting Shot While lawyers and the legal industry are well advised to remain open to change and new (technological) developments – maybe even more so than today – technology by itself is highly unlikely to fundamentally disrupt the legal industry. Its impact will always be marginal. The legal profession is first and foremost a human profession. Law firms are well advised to prioritize training and development opportunities for lawyers and partners over investment in technology. We do not need faster lawyers, we need ‘better humans’.

Recently I had the privilege of participating in an event that gathered over a hundred law firm leaders from Europe and beyond. Over speakers dinner, the night before, and the event itself I caught up with many old friends and made a number of great new acquaintances. It is a stark reminder of the importance and value of meeting in person! For the closing keynote, the organizers had managed to engage a well known and highly regarded corporate leadership expert, who had just served a term leading an esteemed global executive search partnership. One will be hard pressed to find more knowledge and experience as it comes to what it takes to be a successful corporate leader in 2023 and beyond. As you know back in 2020, based on research and experience, TGO Consulting defined 7 Core Competences© needed to excel at the top of the legal market. These seven dimensions are: 1. Understanding the Business Keeping up with economic news and business-related news on a daily basis. Showing an interest in and understanding of how companies make money. Having an understanding of how lawyers could help companies to be more profitable. 2. Creativity As a lawyer, being able to think out of the box. The ability to find multiple solutions for a problem. Regularly teaming up with others to get new insights. 3. Practice Development Ability to build a good reputation and develop a relevant business network. Being proactive in maintaining relationships with clients, potential clients and market influencers. Identifying opportunities in an early stage and acting upon that. 4. Practice Management Being able to manage multiple complex matters at the same time without chaos or stress. Being able to communicate timely, clearly and specifically when cooperating with others. Planning capability: being able to realistically estimate how long tasks will take and knowing inter-dependencies between certain tasks. 5. Emotional Intelligence Having a well-developed understanding of other peoples’ drivers, values and emotions. Effective communication of one’s emotions. The ability to build rapport with other people. 6. Integrity Recognizing the importance of permanently calibrating one’s own moral compass. Openly and pro-actively discussing moral dilemmas with others. Putting decency before profit or personal ‘temptations’. 7. Presence/Confidence Not being guided by the fear of failing or being made fun of. Easily mingling with new people in unfamiliar situations. Being self-assured and not immediately giving in when faced with opposition. The keynote speaker stressed the importance of 'listening' and in one-on-one discussions over dinner and during coffee breaks some argued that ‘the willingness and ability to listen’ perhaps should be added to the 7-Core Dimensions©. So, could ‘listening’ be the 8th dimension? It is complicated and all but straight forward, but on balance I do not think ‘listening’ should be considered one of the core dimensions. Please allow me to explain: Not Listening is Dangerous and Foolish I assume that all of you are familiar with the saying “the writing on the wall”. It’s origins trace back to the book of Daniel in the Christian bible. It depicts clear signs that something (bad) is about to happen. Yet in today’s world all too often corporate (and government) leaders are completely missing the writing on the wall. For leaders not listening can be dangerous and foolish. As a leader, do you know what the associates are thinking? What about staff, the partners, the clients? Being leaders and lawyers, all too often we assume we know. We prefer to talk about generation Z, rather than with generation Z. Listening requires an open mind, a general interest and a healthy dose of curiosity. Does the CEO of the airline listen to its passengers? Are they aware that first class passengers expect unlimited free fast internet for the duration of the flight? Is the CEO of the bank aware how frustrating it is for clients being forced to have conversations with a ‘dumb’ chatbot and not a real person? Last week I read an interview with the CEO of one of the large oil majors who could not understand why brilliant young talent no longer wanted to pursue a career in Big Oil... Leaders that do not listen, will miss the writing on the wall Too Much Listening is a Bad Thing Now that you know that the ability and willingness to listen is crucial for any leader, I must caution that too much listening will be harmful. Confused? Bear with me: Quite often what you hear is ‘bullshit’ (excusez le mot). It was Henry Ford who said “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” There is no doubt in my mind that he was right. I have been involved in close to a hundred client surveys and client panels over the years, and consistently part of what was said was useless. In general it is wise to be extremely cautious and not take everything you hear too literally. Leaders must not only have the ability to listen, but also apply a healthy dose of common sense when doing so. You will be surprised how often so called experts have it wrong. When IBM unveiled the first computers, experts said that we would probably only ever need a handful of such machines in the world. When Steve Job introduced the iPhone, Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer was convinced that only very few consumers would want to use such a device. When a friend on mine, who owns a hugely profitable global business asked the banks to help finance the development of a new type of machinery, all banks refused as they did not see a future for such (massive) machine. My friend ended up financing out of his own pockets and now has an immensely profitable worldwide monopoly, being the only company with such a machine. Leaders must know when NOT to listen and swim against the current. Listening creates expectations. If you ask for input and opinions, people will expect that their views are taken into account when it comes to taking a decision. If it then turns out the decision is not in line with their opinion or advise, they will be disappointed and potentially angry. This happens when the government decides to build a nuclear reactor next to where you live. It also happens if you ask your lawyers about work from home while not having a fixed desk at the office in order to manage office space more efficiently and cost effectively. Without effort I could go on producing more arguments limiting the usefulness of listening. Having said that, remember that at the same time I fully and wholeheartedly subscribe to the importance of listening: you most certainly do not want to miss the writing on the wall! In the end, more important than listening itself, leaders must have the ability to act in the interest of the firm. That is why listening is not one of the core dimensions, but still an effective leader can not do without. Ultimately leadership is stewardship. Leaders have an unwritten obligation to leave the firm (or company) better than they found it. On this and other leadership topics, TGO Consulting offers bespoke workshops at our Off-Site Retreat in Sweden. If you are interested in growing as a leader, please inquire for available dates.

This decade has been bumpy from the onset. First covid, then skyrocketing inflation upsetting the global economy. Not to mention the effects of extreme weather around the globe. It doesn’t look like things will change for the better anytime soon, unfortunately. While these events have induced a lot of misery for many, the legal industry has remained largely unaffected. Both 2020 and 2021 have been the best years on record. Lawyers that feared the sky would fall down when covid struck, could not have been more wrong. I, myself, was not on the side of doom back in 2020. On the contrary, I was convinced the legal industry could weather the storm and the economy would be buoyant once the covid wave was over. I still believe that would have happened if not for the Russian invasion in Ukraine that sent energy prices soaring and disrupted supply chains. Invariably when we move from one year to the next there is a tsunami of articles by reputable and non-reputable authors analyzing and predicting the future. I have read the analyses from the Economist, Bloomberg, the Financial Times and many others with great interest, but I don’t think reality will unfold as predicted. Who could ever have foreseen that China would abandon their extremely strict zero-covid policy from one day to the other? Legal Industry getting nervous Law firms are looking back at 2020 and 2021 as the best years in their existence. At least from a financial perspective. Profits grew double digits as there was high demand and costs were down. Extremely high workload, causing stress and anxiety, were notable side effects. When demand cooled down a bit in Q2 of 2022, initially this was widely welcomed. Providing a bit of relief and time to breathe. When interest rates rapidly started to rise and it became clear the economy would enter into a recession, relief turned into panic. Once again law firms fear the sky will fall down on them and I see firms that translate their nervousness into cost cutting and lay-offs. We all know that if one firm starts with lay-offs, others will follow. In that aspect law firms are like lemmings. There is this sense that the other firm will somehow be smarter and your firm should follow in order not to fall behind. I beg to differ. Looking at real world data, how bad is it? Lets have a closer look at what is the actual situation for the legal industry. Expenses are up. Direct expenses (salaries) are up 15,4% over the past 12 months (industry average for larger law firms), while indirect expenses have grown by 3,8% over the same period. The growth in direct expenses is mainly the result of aggressive hiring and rising salaries and bonuses. We can expect indirect expenses to grow faster in 2023 as housing costs will be further adjusted. Looking at the demand side the picture is not quite as dramatic. The most prominent characteristic of law firm financial performance in 2022 was the substantial slowing in demand growth that firms experienced throughout the year. On a year-to-date (YTD) basis through November 2022, overall demand contracted by 0.1%. Over that same period law firms increased their rates by an average of 4.8%. Which means there still has been growth in revenue. Looking at clients’ expectations regarding their legal spend over the coming year, almost half of companies expect to increase legal spending as opposed to only 19% expecting a decrease. Analyzing these real world data, it seems highly unlikely that the legal industry will be facing serious headwinds anytime soon. Sure, extreme growth has come to an end, but we all knew that wouldn’t last anyway. For 2023 I personally do not foresee serious demand issues for the market as a whole. (How the M&A market will develop is harder to predict, but I would expect a rebound towards Q3/Q4) Should law firms shed staff? For the legal industry, like many other industries, the pandemic fundamentally changed the employment dynamics. Faced with ‘insane’ workloads and working from home, more talent than ever took the decision to leave their firm. At the same time law firms increased recruitment to compensate for the leavers and to help meet demand. On balance this resulted in about 4% growth in lawyers (FTE). Now faced with more lawyers, growing expenses and normalizing demand, what would be the smartest thing to do? Many law firms have learned the hard way during the 2008/2009 financial crisis, that it is a lot easier to fire lawyers than hiring them back once the market rebounds. Lack of well trained experienced lawyers will result in high cost of lost opportunity. In other words: the short term cost savings do not outweigh the lost revenue in the longer term. Having said that, this is the time to more critically evaluate the quality and potential of your associates (and partners). Invariably there are hiring mistakes or lawyers that have not developed as expected. While law firms should always be critically assessing the quality and potential of each lawyer, this is the time to upgrade the average. While structurally and objectively going thorough that process, please do not forget to offer development opportunities to all lawyers, associates and partners alike. The law firm that becomes the best talent development machine will be the one that will come out on top. In the end being a top-law firm is about human talent more than about revenue. Growing talent is growing reputation and profitability. It is the best investment you can ever make.

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LATAM 2022 Legal Executive Briefing June 2022 Jaap Bosman was a keynote speaker at Thomson Reuters' Latin American Executive Briefing 2022 in Sao Paulo, together with Jaime Fernandez Madero. Legal Disruptors conference 2022 June 2022 Jaap Bosman was a keynote speaker at the Legal Disruptors 2022 conference in Prague, talking about the 7 core dimensions of successful lawyers. ACC Europe May 2022 Jaap Bosman was a speaker at the European conference of the Association of Corporate Counsel in Madrid. column De Jurist March 2022 Jaap Bosman is a columnist for de Jurist , a legal market publication from Het Financieele Dagblad , Netherlands leading financial newspaper . (In Dutch ) column De Jurist February 2022 Jaap Bosman is a columnist for de Jurist , a legal market publication from Het Financieele Dagblad , Netherlands leading financial newspaper . (In Dutch ) succession planning February 2022 Jaap Bosman is a contributing writer to Globe Law & Business' publication Succession Planning , edited by Katerina Mennhenet. Read more here . column De Jurist January 2022 Jaap Bosman is a columnist for de Jurist , a legal market publication from Het Financieele Dagblad , Netherlands leading financial newspaper. The January column asks for a debate in how we want to tackle limitations on constitutional rights in future crises. (In Dutch ) article on TGO Offsite Retreat December 2021 The plans for TGO Offsite Retreat in Swdeden were presented in Swedish newspaper Falköpings Tidning, along with an interview with Jaap Bosman and Lisa Hakanson. lecture ESCP Paris November 2021 Students from the ESCP Business School in Paris (MSc International Business Law & Management) met with Jaap Bosman to discuss the place and importance of soft skills in the legal field and what human qualities a lawyer should have. column de jurist October 2021 Jaap Bosman is a columnist for de Jurist , a legal market publication from Het Financieele Dagblad , Netherlands leading financial newspaper. The October column discusses consequences of hybrid working (in Dutch ). interview belgian corporate counsel magazine October 2021 The yearly publication of IBJ, the corporate counsel association of Belgium, celebrates its 150th edition and publishes an interview with Jaap Bosman. column de jurist August 2021 Jaap Bosman is a columnist for de Jurist , a legal market publication from Het Financieele Dagblad , Netherlands leading financial newspaper. The August column argues three important subjects are missing from the law school curriculum (in Dutch ). JUVE legal operations conference June 2021 Jaap Bosman held the opening keynote of the JUVE Legal Operations Konferenz 2021, on the topic of bifurcation in the legal market. column de jurist May 2021 Jaap Bosman is a columnist for de Jurist , a legal market publication from Het Financieele Dagblad , Netherlands leading financial newspaper. The May column urges law firms not to go back to 'normal' but to 'better' (in Dutch). ACC Europe Annual Conference May 2021 The association of corporate counsel (ACC) Europe held its Annual Conference 2021 online. Together with GCs and law firm partners, Jaap Bosman held a session on Optimising partnerships with outside counsel through data and dialogue . column de jurist April 2021 Jaap Bosman is a columnist for de Jurist , a legal market publication from Het Financieele Dagblad , Netherlands leading financial newspaper. The April column looks at law firm investments (in Dutch). law firm leaders master class March 2021 Jaap Bosman held a Master Class for law firm leaders at the Law Firm Leadership & Management Program in Shanghai China. column de jurist March 2021 Jaap Bosman is a columnist for de Jurist , a legal market publication from Het Financieele Dagblad , Netherlands leading financial newspaper. The March column looks at how more rules on ethics will fail to give result (in Dutch). law firm leaders master class February 2021 Jaap Bosman will in March 2021 hold a Master Class for law firm leaders at the Law Firm Leadership & Management Program in China, joined by Scott Westfahl, Harvard, and Peter Zeughauser, Zeughauser Group. interview Jaap Bosman February 2021 Leading up to the Law Firm Leadership & Management Program in China, March 2021, Jaap Bosman has been interviewed on law firm management by legal publishing platform Zihe. column de Jurist January 2021 Jaap Bosman is a columnist for de Jurist, a legal market publication from Het Financieele Dagblad, Netherlands leading financial newspaper. The January column looks at five things we must improve in 2021 (in Dutch). article Modern Lawyer January 2021 Jaap Bosman contributed to Modern Lawyer with an article on swarm intelligence. Modern Lawyer is a publication of Globe Law and Business and edited by Dr Catherine McGregor. column de Jurist November 2020 Jaap Bosman is a columnist for de Jurist, a legal market publication from Het Financieele Dagblad, Netherlands leading financial newspaper. The November column looks at the financials of law firms in 2021 (in Dutch). legal awards October 2020 Legal publisher SDU annually hands our awards for achievements in the Dutch legal sector. Jaap Bosman is a member of the jury and had the honour to hand the Resilience Award to NautaDutilh (in Dutch). law360 October 2020 An article in Law360 (LexisNexis), by Aebra Coe, looks into partner pay guarantees: Is BigLaw Regretting Its Proclivity For Pay Guarantees? Jaap Bosman is asked to comment. Read more here . legal executive institute September 2020 Together with Nancey Watson , Jaap Bosman writes for the Legal Executive Institute (Thomson Reuters) an article on understanding the business is crucial for Legal. Read the article here dutch financial press - de jurist September 2020 Jaap Bosman is a columnist for Dutch legal publication de Jurist (Het Finanieele Dagblad). This article examines the pitfalls of working from home. Read the article here (in Dutch). law360 September 2020 Jaap Bosman comments on partner compensation systems in a Law360 article (LexisNexis), by Aebra Coe - Will Pure Lockstep Partner Pay Survive the Decade . Read the article here aba webinar June 2020 Jaap Bosman contributed to the 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting organized by the International Law Section of the ABA. More information on the Annual Meeting can be found here iba webinar May 2020 Jaap Bosman presented the kick-off webinar in the first ever Virtual Entrepreneurship Conference organized by IBA, with over 400 lawyers actively attending. A recording can be found here More information here law360 April 2020 An article in Law360 (LexisNexis), by Aebra Coe, looks into Corona crisis measures of law firms. The article refers to our blog and some of our analysis is quoted in the article. Find the article here zhihe - intelligeast March 2020 Shanghai based Zhihe, the leading educational network and service provider in the Chinese market, published an article written by Jaap Bosman: link to the article here (in Chinese) gazette du palais March 2020 Gazette du Palais, a leading legal market publication in France, published an interview with Jaap Bosman on Legal Technology and the Creation-Production Divide Concept. Read it here (pdf) or here (in French) acc docket March 2020 Jaap Bosman co-authored the Feature Article of the ACC Docket Magazine March 2020 issue, introducing a 3-step method for prioritizing legal matters in-house. You can read the article here podcast Finland February 2020 Jaap Bosman joined Casper Herler in a podcast on the future of the legal profession. They explore trends for the legal industry in the new decade. What is cognitive diversity? When is specialism bad? And many more. bloomberg law + bloomberg tax February 2020 Jaap Bosman’s widely discussed article for Bloomberg: 'Fundamental Changes Coming to the Legal Industry This Decade', published by Bloomberg Law and by Bloomberg Tax. zhihe - Shanghai January 2020 Shanghai based Zhihe, the leading educational network and service provider in the Chinese market, published a translated version of Jaap Bosman's original article "5 Trends that will define the New Decade for Law Firms " acc legal operations - virtual roundtable January 2020 Jaap Bosman & Vincent Cordo were invited by the ACC to a webinar/virtual roundtable on their book Data & Dialogue, a relationship redefined , focusing on concrete tools to get more value out external lawyers. law360 October 2019 An article in Law360, by Aebra Coe, examines the latest expansion of Dentons in the US, and quotes Jaap Bosman. Law360 is a LexisNexis company known for covering events in the legal market within 48 hours. acc australian corporate lawyer magazine October 2019 The Australian Corporate Lawyer magazine, by ACC Australia, featured an excerpt from the book Data & Dialogue - a relationship redefined in their spring issue 2019. innovation forum Shanghai August 2019 Zhihe, the largest legal community platform in China, and TGO Consulting lectured during the three day Law Firm Innovation Forum in Shanghai, joined by legal tech entrepreneurs and managing partners of law firms from all parts of China. law360 July 2019 An article in Law360, by Aebra Coe, examines the decision by Kirkland & Ellis to set up a plaintiffs' side trial group. Jaap Bosman is quoted, providing the context of litigation finance and its potential significant returns. acc breakfast meeting June 2019 At an ACC Europe breakfast meeting, hosted by EMEA headquarters of Uber, Jaap Bosman and Vincent Cordo gave a briefing on data analysis in legal services from their book Data & Dialogue, a relationship redefined , article aba Journal May 2019 ABAJournal.com published our column The 6 most important qualities for an equity partner. Jaap Bosman, is a regular contributor to the ABA Journal, the flagship magazine of the American Bar Association. bloomberg law April 2019 Jaap Bosman is a contributor to Bloomberg Law. In this Insight article he writes about data analysis in the legal service sector and the insights provided by his new book Data & Dialogue, co-authored by Vincent Cordo . article aba journal April 2019 ABAJournal.com published an article The Legal Industry Will Need a New Breed of Lawyers , by Jaap Bosman, a regular contributor to the ABA Journal, the flagship magazine of the American Bar Association. trends tendances April 2019 The Belgian business magazine Trends Tendances featured an interview with Jaap Bosman regarding the newly published book Data & Dialogue , co-authored by Vincent Cordo. (Article in French ) article aba journal Januay 2019 Jaap Bosman, TGO Consulting, is a regular contributor to the flagship magazine of the American Bar Association. ABAJournal.com published his article Monetizing your investment in legal tech law360 Januay 2019 Legal Sector Jobs Slump by Aebra Coe, Law360, examines the decline in the total number of jobs in the legal sector in Q4, 2018, quoting Jaap Bosman among other. keynote legal forum shanghai December 2018 Jaap Bosman delivered the closing keynote at the 智合论坛 / Intelligeast Forum 2018, Shanghai, the biggest seminar on the future of the legal profession in China to date. Other speakers include Richard Susskind and Ashish Nanda. article aba journal October 2018 Jaap Bosman, TGO Consulting, is a regular contributor to the ABA Journal. ABAJournal.com published his article: Are lawyers being trapped in their practice niches? inblf global annual meeting October 2018 The International Network of Boutique Law Firms (“INBLF”), a global organization of highly regarded boutique law firms, held their annual global meeting in Rome, where Jaap Bosman gave a keynote. harvard meeting October 2018 TGO Consulting met with directors of Harvard post-graduate law programmes to exchange views and experience. aija congress August 2018 Jaap Bosman held a keynote at the AIJA congress in Brussels on the topic of being an international lawyer. AIJA is a global association devoted to lawyers and in-house counsel aged 45. tgo client event August 2018 TGO Consulting held its client event in Bayreuth (Germany). We attended the performance of Richard Wagner's Walküre . aba journal June 2018 ABAJournal.com published our article It's not the associate salaries, it's the human skills that challenge law firms legal network emea meeting June 2018 Jaap Bosman contributed to the EMEA gathering of Multilaw in Malta, with a keynote on the changing relationship between clients and law firms brought on by, amongst other, data analysis. law firm leadership roundtable May 2018 Jointly with ABN AMRO Bank and ZumpolleVanderStoel legal headhunters, TGO Consulting hosted a roundtable with Managing Partners and GCs on the challenges of putting non-lawyers in client facing roles in law firms. aba journal April 2018 Jaap Bosman is a regular contributor to the ABA Journal of the American Bar Association. ABAJournal.com published his article Start monetizing those unused (discountable) billable hours . lexisnexis France March 2018 Revue Pratique de la Prospective et de l'Innovation, is a French lawyer magazine published by LexisNexis in partnership with the National Bar Association of France. Jaap Bosman contributed with an article on Prediction & Prevention in legal disputes. shanghai law association January 2018 The China Law Publishing House published a summary of the first Shanghai Law Association Law School lecture, held by Jaap Bosman. Kang Jianjun, vice President of Shanghai Law Association, presided at the opening lecture ceremony. all China lawyers association December 2017 Jaap Bosman and Lisa Hakanson from TGO Consulting visited the All China Lawyers Association in Beijing, China. Shenzen bar association December 2017 Jaap Bosman gave a lecture on the topic of ‘Building a great law firm’ at the Shenzen Bar Association, in Shenzen, China. law firm marketing summit London November 2017 Jaap Bosman held a keynote on positioning and brand building at the 2nd annual Law Firm Marketing Summit London, organised by The Global Legal Post and Global City Media. business radio November 2017 Jaap Bosman was interviewed on the Dutch business radio on the topic of law firm profitability in the legal market. The hour-long broadcast can be accessed as a pod-cast (in Dutch). Polish bar association October 2017 Jaap Bosman gave a lecture on the topic of ‘Building a profitable law firm in a digital age’ at the Polish Bar Association (KIRP), in Warsaw, Polen. global legal post October 2017 The Global Legal Post published comments by Jaap Bosman on the effects of commoditisation in the legal market and the factors changing the way corporate clients value and purchase legal services. law press China October 2017 Law Press China, dedicates their October newsletter to female partners of Chinese law firms. The newsletter concludes with a book review and recommendation of the book Death of a Law Firm. acc docket October 2017 The ACC Docket is the journal of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), publishes an article by Jaap Bosman on what it might look like for the in-house counsel of the future. ccbe e-book October 2017 The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) has published an eBook containing a collection of essays written by the expert speakers from their annual conference. Jaap Bosman contributed an article on the future of law and access to justice. international association of prosecutors September 2017 The International Association of Prosecutors (IAP) is the worldwide organization of prosecutors. Jaap Bosman was a speaker at the 22nd Annual Conference and General Meeting of the IAP , held in Beijing, China, addressing all Prosecutors General in a closed session. shanghai bar association September 2017 Jaap Bosman was invited by the Shanghai Bar Association, a lawyer's association with near 20.000 members in China, to hold a lecture to its members on the topic of business of law. tianjin bar association September 2017 Jaap Bosman was invited by the Tianjin Bar Association, Peoples Republic of China, to hold a lecture to its members on the topic of business of law. tianjin lawyer magazine September 2017 Tianjin Lawyer, the magazine for all members of the Tianjin Lawyers Association, published a review of Death of a Law Firm in their September issue. law360 August 2017 5 Ways Law Firms Can Harmonize Client Service, by Aebra Coe, Law360, charts what clients are looking for in terms of service experience, quoting Jaap Bosman among other. Law360 is a LexisNexis news company. law360 June 2017 Law360 is a LexisNexis company and news source for legal professionals, business leaders, and government officials. Jaap Bosman is quoted in an article by Sam Reisman regarding the malware attack on DLA Piper. global legal post June 2017 The Global Legal Post published an article on commoditization of legal services based on an article written by Jaap for the ABAJournal.com. aba journal June 2017 Jaap Bosman is a regular contributor to the ABA Journal, magazine of the American Bar Association. It published his article Do you suffer from commoditization blindness? , part of their Legal Rebels. death of a law firm June 2017 The publishing arm of the American Bar Association, ABA Book Publishing, published our book Death of a Law Firm , now for sale via their online store. german bar association May 2017 At the conference of the German Bar Association, Jaap Bosman joined a panel including Mark A. Cohen (Legal Mosaic), John Fernandez (Nextlaw Labs/Dentons), Jane Townsend (Allen & Overy), debating innovation in law. iba global entrepreneurship conference May 2017 Jaap Bosman contributed to the IBA Global Entrepreneurship Conference, in Paris. aba journal March 2017 Jaap Bosman is a regular contributor to the ABA Journal, magazine of the American Bar Association. It published his article What lawyers can learn from a dollar-store model , as part of their Legal Rebels series. harbour view March 2017 The Spring 2017 edition of Harbour View, a publication by Harbour Litigation Funding, celebrates their 10th anniversary. Jaap Bosman contributed with an article on the business of law. revue pratique March 2017 Revue Pratique de la Prospective et de l'Innovation, is a magazine for lawyers by LexisNexis and the National Bar Association of France. Jaap Bosman contributed with an article on the business of law. (In English ) affiches parisiennes March 2017 Affiches Parisiennes, the Parisian biweekly legal journal, devoted the cover article of their 7 March issue to the JINOV conference in Paris, including the keynote speech by Jaap Bosman. op. recht. mechelen. February 2017 Jaap Bosman will contributed as a key note speaker in a conference programme on Management of Justice, concluded by the Belgian Minister of Justice and organized by the city of Mechelen, Belgium. jinov paris February 2017 JINOV, Les Journées de l’innovation du Droit et du Chiffre, presented its second edition of the days of innovation in law and numbers in Paris. Jaap Bosman contributed as a keynote speaker at this event . survey January 2017 TGO Consulting and Advocatie (Sdu) together conducted a survey amongst lawyers regarding their preferences on savings and investments. For a summary of the results in English, click here . la lettre des juristes d'affaires December 2016 One of the leading publication for the legal market in France, La Lettre des Juristes d'Affaires (LJA), published an article on TGO Consulting partner mobility report. legal tribune online December 2016 Legal Tribune Online, a law magazine published by Wolters Kluwer Deutschland GmbH, wrote an article on TGO Consulting partner mobility report . european conference on legal access November 2016 The Association for Development of Legal Informatization, Juriconnexion and Le Droit Ouvert, together organised the 4th European conference on legal access (JEIJ), where Jaap Bosman contributed.

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