In my view what really is needed is some kind of a universal open XML-based standard for interchanging Intellectual Property business data, e.g. for encoding a commercial request to file for a certain patent or a certain trade mark, or for reporting …

When your services are a commodity – everyone treats them like a commodity.For example, if you take the “relationship” out of the legal services equation what are you left with?  Simply put - commodity.  The attorney lo…

Interesting post over at Patent Baristas about dividing legal work into two different groups – essentially those for which cost is no object (Column A) and everything else (Column B).
“Clients will say they want an alternate billing arrangement (rea…