Deferred Start Dates Are a Good Thing?
Staci Zaretsky wrote about deferred Biglaw start dates on Above the Law today and while law ≠ accounting, the sausage factory of the Professional Services Industrial Complex™ is pretty much the same thing. Let me add, we’re beginning to see delayed start dates in our little corner of the billable hour universe so this might […]
Deloitte Doesn’t Want to Play In the Sandbox with the Big Law Kids Right Now
“We are monitoring these developments. At this point in time, though, we just don’t believe it’s practical to enter the practice of law.” — Steve Kimble, CEO of Deloitte Tax in the U.S., said in an interview with Bloomberg Law about the possibility of Deloitte stomping around Big Law’s turf in the States. What developments […]
New Ranking Shows Big 4’s Legal Brands Are Still Kinda Sorta Relevant
Legal research firm Acritas came out today with its 2019 Global Alternative Legal Brand Index, the best of the best non-law firms that provide nontraditional legal or quasi-legal services to clients. And just like last year’s index, the Big 4 firms’ legal arms take up four of the top five spots. But there’s a new […]
According to New Analysis, It Might Be Time For Big Law to Fear the Big 4
I still don’t get all this fervor around the Big 4 entering the legal market. To me, it would be like if Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo. started brewing beer. Yes, they’d have the brand recognition and tons of money to throw at the best people to run their brewing operations, but I don’t think AB […]