Dan Packel

Philadelphia

Editor, Business of Law at American Lawyer

Editor, Business of Law at Law.com

Business of law editor @lawdotcom . Once: food writer, Ph.D. candidate, bike courier, cheesemonger. Always: Philadelphian.

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The Law Firm Disrupted: As PE Looks To Invest in Law Firms, Utah Has Fallen Off the Map

1 week ago | law.com | Dan Packel

Welcome to the Law Firm Disrupted, a briefing from Law.com editor Dan Packel that surveys new competitive pressures on law firms and how their managers are coping, plus insights on the tactics and tech employed by would-be disruptors. Have an opinion? Email me here. Want to be alerted to this dispatch in your inbox most Thursdays? Sign up here. Despite considerable obstacles, private equity is serious about finding a way to tap into the enticing returns generated by the legal industry.
The Law Firm Disrupted: Big Law's Collective Efforts to Either Strike a Deal or Fight Trump Were Unfolding at Same Time

3 weeks ago | law.com | Dan Packel

Welcome to the Law Firm Disrupted, a briefing from Law.com editor Dan Packel that surveys new competitive pressures on law firms and how their managers are coping, plus insights on the tactics and tech employed by would-be disruptors. Have an opinion? Email me here. Want to be alerted to this dispatch in your inbox most Thursdays? Sign up here. Back in what feels like a previous lifetime, when I was working on a never-completed doctorate, game theory was a major part of the curriculum.
The Law Firm Disrupted: Can Billing Rate Increases Withstand the Tariff Buzzsaw?

4 weeks ago | law.com | Dan Packel

Many of you have likely been patting yourselves on the back recently for having gone into a line of work that doesn’t involve the sale or manufacturing of physical goods. That relief presumably becomes even more apparent following calls with clients who do traffic in these goods.
The Law Firm Disrupted: Trump Makes Pro Bono Work A Big Story

1 month ago | law.com | Dan Packel

Who Got The Work J. Brugh Lower of Gibbons has entered an appearance for industrial equipment supplier Devco Corporation in a pending trademark infringement lawsuit. The suit, accusing the defendant of selling knock-off Graco products, was filed Dec. 18 in New Jersey District Court by Rivkin Radler on behalf of Graco Inc. and Graco Minnesota. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Zahid N. Quraishi, is 3:24-cv-11294, Graco Inc. et al v. Devco Corporation.
The Law Firm Disrupted: Silence of the Elites

2 months ago | law.com | Dan Packel

Welcome to the Law Firm Disrupted, a briefing from Law.com editor Dan Packel that surveys new competitive pressures on law firms and how their managers are coping, plus insights on the tactics and tech employed by would-be disruptors. Have an opinion? Email me here. Want to be alerted to this dispatch in your inbox most Thursdays? Sign up here.
The Law Firm Disrupted: Market Segmentation Muddles The Return To Office Push

Mar 6, 2025 | law.com | Dan Packel

The segmentation that we’ve been seeing for a number of years between top-of-the-market elites and the rest of the Big Law world is beginning to manifest itself in a new area: return-to-office mandates. As we approach the fifth anniversary of the abrupt shift to work-from-home arrangements from the COVID-19 pandemic, a pattern is beginning to emerge.
The Law Firm Disrupted: Building a Leadership Brand in Big Law

Feb 21, 2025 | law.com | Dan Packel

Welcome to the Law Firm Disrupted, a briefing from Law.com editor Dan Packel that surveys new competitive pressures on law firms and how their managers are coping, plus insights on the tactics and tech employed by would-be disruptors. Have an opinion? Email me here. Want to be alerted to this dispatch in your inbox most Thursdays? Sign up here. Managing a giant law firm is without question a more complex job than it was even a decade ago, let alone in the 1990s.
A Busy Run for Lateral Partner Hiring in Big Law

Feb 18, 2025 | law.com | Jon Campisi |Dan Packel

February has already been a busy month for law firm hiring, with a number of firms, many in the Am Law 50, unveiling lateral partner moves across various practice areas and jurisdictions last week as well as after the Presidents Day federal holiday. Tuesday saw lateral announcements from a number of firms, including White & Case, Mayer Brown, Sidley Austin, and Norton Rose Fulbright.
The Law Firm Disrupted: Arizona Merger Offers A Playbook To Strike Fear in Midsize Law Firms

Feb 13, 2025 | law.com | Dan Packel

My hometown of Philadelphia feels like the center of the universe right now, after the Eagles dominated the Kansas City Chiefs to win Super Bowl LIX last Sunday. But I figured we’d use this week’s briefing to head west once again. We’ll revisit Arizona, a frequent Law Firm Disrupted destination, thanks to that state’s 2021 move to eliminate Rule 5.4, opening the door to outside ownership of law firms.
The Law Firm Disrupted: For Office Policies, Big Law Has Its Ear to the Market, Not to Trump

Jan 23, 2025 | law.com | Dan Packel

Welcome to the Law Firm Disrupted, a briefing from Law.com editor Dan Packel that surveys new competitive pressures on law firms and how their managers are coping, plus insights on the tactics and tech employed by would-be disruptors. Have an opinion? Email me here. Want to be alerted to this dispatch in your inbox most Thursdays? Sign up here. Honestly, I thought the RTO question had been resolved about a year and a half ago, when we ran our The New Normal?

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