Seyfarth Chair Lays Out Why He Joined Twitter

Editor’s Note: This post is written by the chairman of the law firm Seyfarth Shaw LLP. The article, which he titled, “Mind the Gap,” is in response to a Big Law Business inquiry about his new social media presence.

By Stephen Poor, Chairman, Seyfarth Shaw LLP

In a recent Altman Weil survey, law firm leaders were asked why they were not doing more to change their business models. Sixty-three percent said that it was “because clients were not asking for change.” Meanwhile, an estimated $1.1 billion moved from outside law firms to corporate legal departments in 2014 in the U.S. alone – ...