A Message From the Editor
If you were to look at most large firms' list of practice offerings, there would be dozens of services to choose from. But there are still those overarching departments that serve as the core of what a firm does: litigation, corporate and maybe tax and real estate. So when Baker & Hostetler restructured its practice mix to put data management on par with litigation or tax, we took notice. Not so much because of how it may change the way the firm markets itself, but because of what it says about the evolution of the clients Big Law represents. I'm sure many of you would be hard-pressed to think of a client that isn't in some way morphing into a data or technology company. That has implications for the skill sets of the lawyers firms employ and how they staff matters, among so many other things.
– Gina Passarella, Editor-in-Chief, The American Lawyer
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