Edge International Review is a quarterly collection of pragmatic articles and prescriptive counsel penned by both Edge partners and respected colleagues.

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The Five Levels of Strategy
by Rob Millard

Risky business
by Gerry Riskin

Email Will Never Be The Same – All Dressed Up and Everywhere To Go
by Richard L. Upton

Enterprise 2.0 and Reinvention of the Firm
by David Terrar

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Dear Clients and Friends

This edition focuses firmly on strategy. Rob Millard presents an innovative new model for thinking about it. Gerry Riskin writes on what history may define as a critical event in the history of the legal profession, namely a law firm listing on a stock exchange.The Legal Services Bill in the United Kingdom will shortly have firms in that jurisdiction following suit shortly.

The Bill has already fundamentally altered the relationship between the lawyers and non-lawyer business executives in UK firms. In a recent survey, 93% of UK law firms said that they think that having non-lawyer professionals as equity owners will improve their businesses. The British Government is now fast-tracking elements from the Legal Services Bill, which will enable 25% of legal partnerships to be drawn from other professions by the end of 2008. How long it will take for this trend to jump the Atlantic remains to be seen.

We have two guest contributors. Dick Upton writes about how email might be improved by embedding useful data and enhancing a firm’s email branding. David Terrar, a technology consultant in London, writes about social networking tools and how these are poised to reinvent the way that we collaborate and communicate in firms (partly by heavily reducing email!) David’s organization, Blogtronix, and Edge International have joined forces to help law firms use social networking to dramatically improve their strategic and collaborative processes.

As always, we welcome feedback!

Our best regards,
The Partners, Edge International

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