Research and Advisory Services

Blickstein Group’s flagship research products include the Annual Law Department Operations Survey (launched in 2008), the Annual Legal Pricing & Project Management Survey (launched in 2020) and Modernize Legal: The Practice Management Field Study. 

Previous research initiatives include the Legal AI Efficacy Report (2019-2020), National Law Journal Trailblazers (2013-2023), The GDPR Reality Check (2017), The Annual Study of Effective Legal Spend Management (2017-2020), the Captive ALSP Report (2020) and the Internal Adoption of Innovation by Law Firms Report (2021).

We also provide customized market and market-facing research on behalf of our clients.

For more than two decades, legal industry leaders have turned to Blickstein Group for insight and advice. We use our experience, deep insights, highly honed processes and cutting-edge technology to help our clients and other stakeholders to understand their industry, prepare for the future and take their offerings to market. We have decades of experience helping law firms, legal techs and ALSPs with positioning, messaging, strategy, content planning, media relations, event development, digital marketing and the kind of flagship content that is unmatched in the legal industry.

Brad Blickstein is a legal industry futurist – he has developed a national reputation for his insight into the changing ways that legal services are being consumed and delivered in the modern marketplace. He helps clients see the future – educating them on the industry’s evolution of legal services and their consumption and helps position them for success by developing novel products, systems and solutions, which make the delivery of legal services more modern and efficient. A frequent speaker, he has presented at almost every major industry conference and in front of law firms around the world. 

An astonishing level of investment is being put into legal tech and legal services. Little of it, however, is being put forth by long-term industry veterans who have studied the marketplace deeply for many years. Blickstein Group can help investors evaluate the attractiveness of a market, analyze the value and position of a target company, provide customer-focused research and assess risks and rewards. Our clients leverage our decades of research and subject matter expertise to help them determine where, how and how much to invest.