The Changing Face of Law

  • The Changing Face of Law

    During the last four months, Cape Business has interviewed more than three dozen individual law firms, from Boston-based Nutter, to solo practitioners like Barbara Sullivan, whose Sagamore Beach office faces Cape Cod Bay. Our mission: To discover how the law profession on Cape Cod is changing. And what does it all mean – both to the profession itself and to the thousands of businesses that depend on legal services?

  • How modern technology and the Web enhance a local law practice

    Bruce Bierhans rushes into his Chatham office two minutes ahead of his appointment on a Monday afternoon. He is carrying only his BlackBerry. He beckons his guest into a conference room that is shared by several other attorneys in a condominium office that he partly owns.

  • A new career that is also a retirement plan

    William Yates is not only a new face of law on Cape Cod. He also represents the baby boomer invasion – white-collar professionals establishing new businesses and homes here, with no intention of retiring. His story is illuminating for any Cape company striving to understand the rapid changes to our economy and population.

  • Nutter: The Boston law firm that cracked the Cape code

    In a tiny, windowless room deep within Nutter’s ever-expanding Hyannis office are several computer servers that play a profound role in the Boston law firm’s unique success on Cape Cod.

  • “General counsel” for smaller companies

    Several years ago, the partners at Masterman, Culbert & Tully LLP decided to become more strategic. How could their impressive individual specialties mesh more productively? What companies could be their best clients? How could they better communicate their firm’s value? How could they assure a long-term relationship with a client?

  • The best of both worlds

    Longtime local attorneys become partners in a Boston law firm – without leaving the Cape.

  • Trading in Boston for the Cape

    Joe Berlandi personifies the changing face of Cape Cod’s population, economy and legal profession.

  • Cloning himself

    With technology, this lawyer maintains offices on both sides of the canal

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