Author Profile

Jordan Furlong

Jordan Furlong


865 Carling Avenue, Suite 500, Ottawa, Ontario, 0 Canada

About

Jordan Furlong is an Ottawa-based lawyer and legal journalist specializing in law practice innovation, legal business trends, and the changing landscape of the legal profession. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Bar Association’s flagship magazine National, a position he has held for more than nine years. Jordan also serves as Executive Editor of the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association’s CCCA Magazine. He served as editor of the 2006 Innovaction e-zine on innovation in law practice management, and is the only Canadian to be made an Honourary Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management.

Areas of Expertise

* Legal publishing * Online journalism * Law practice management * Legal innovation

Professional Experience

* Publisher, Law21.ca (January 2008-present) * Executive Editor, Canadian Corporate Counsel Association (2007-present) * Editor-in-Chief, Canadian Bar Association's National Magazine (1999-present) * Managing Editor/Writer, The Lawyers Weekly (1996-1998) * Articling Clerk, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (1993-1994)

Education

* LL.B., Queens University (1993) * BA w/ honors (English/Political Science), Memorial University of Newfoundland (1990)

Recent Articles

Writing on the road

Jordan Furlong

March 15, 2012 12:52

It’s been a few months since I last posted one of these roundups, so I thought I’d pull one together today. Here’s a series of articles I’ve written elsewhere or interviews I’ve given to various print and online periodicals. As usual, I’ve been busiest at Stem...

The limited-profit law firm

Jordan Furlong

March 09, 2012 16:14

What if your law firm were legally prohibited from making too much money? What if there were a fixed profit ceiling for equity partners, and any profit exceeding that amount had to be distributed to others? What if your firm explicitly placed social goals ahead of revenue goals — what would...

Coming to you live: The do’s and don’ts of conference tweeting

Steve Matthews

March 08, 2012 14:14

[Note: This post has been simultaneously published by our friends at Attorney at Work, and will be included in a free downloadable publication of "Tips and Tricks for the Mobile Lawyer," to be released in May. Attorney at…[Note: This post has been simultaneously published by our friends at...

Where’s your fingerprint? Making your online profile unique

Steve Matthews

March 06, 2012 15:15

Here’s a very quick experiment I’d like you to try. Go to your online biography — either your law firm profile page or, if you’re a solo, the “About Me” section — and print it out. Bring the printout back…Here’s a very quick experiment I’d...

Pricing to the client experience

Jordan Furlong

March 01, 2012 16:59

Many lawyers, gnawed by doubt, regularly ask themselves, “What should I charge?” It’s the question with a million right answers — which is to say, with no right answer at all. Whatever number you finally settle on, however, is less important than the process by which you...