Thomson Reuters’ 17th Annual Law Firm Leaders Forum held on November 15 to 16 at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco focused on “Managing Your Firm New World Order: How Economics and Politics Are Impacting the Legal Market.” It was co-chaired by Ralph Baxter, outgoing chair and CEO at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, and Bradford Hildebrandt, chair of Hildebrandt Consulting.
Day one featured a keynote presentation from Joe Scarborough, co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe show (and a former four-term Congress member). It continued with sessions on “The World Economic Outlook and Its Implications for Law Firms” and “Pricing Pressure: Addressing the Market’s Declining Revenues. The second day featured “How Law Firms Access the Necessary Capital to Support the Scale of Businesses They Have Become” and “Improving Lawyer Performance in Turbulent Times.”
