Legal Workforce

Black GC 2025 Interview: How to Master Executive Presence Skills

The Legal Executive Institute’s Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color is excited to feature a conversation with Phyllis Harris, General Counsel (GC) & Chief…

Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color April 19, 2019

Top 8 Nuggets of Wisdom from TWLL’s First Ask-a-Mentor Session

Transforming Women's Leadership in the Law (TWLL) advisory board member Sheila Murphy, a former Fortune 500 Associate General Counsel, served as guest mentor during the inaugural…

Transforming Womens Leadership April 11, 2019

The Case for a Strength-Based Approach in Feedback: Avoiding the Common Low-Resilience, Highly Skeptical Construct in Lawyers

We continue with our series of blog posts concerning feedback, featuring the insights of Dr. Larry Richard, CEO of LawyerBrain and a leading expert on lawyer…

Natalie Runyon April 11, 2019

The Secret to Mastering Law Firm Stress: Shifting to a Stress-Enhancing Mindset

Stress is bad. This is a message we hear over and over again in discussions about attorney burn-out and resilience. There is some truth to…

Legal Executive Institute April 10, 2019

UPFRONT & PERSONAL: A Talk with Laura Stein, GC of Clorox

We continue our monthly feature, “Upfront & Personal”, a column created by Rose Ors that brings “the person behind the title” to the forefront in…

Rose D. Ors April 08, 2019

Nelson Mullins’ Tori Silas Spotlights Her Circuitous Career Path to the Top Echelons of the Legal Industry

The legal industry is seeing an increasing number of women lawyers ditch traditional career paths, which for the most part have been limited to attorneys…

Transforming Womens Leadership April 05, 2019

Why Legal Professionals are the Future of LegalTech

Regardless of your position in the non-lawyers vs. legal professionals semantics debate, one thing is for sure: they are increasingly contributing to the future of…

Kristen Sonday April 03, 2019

New Start-Up In-house Focus Innovates in the Legal CLE Marketplace

Andrew Dick, CEO of In-House Focus, a start-up company that is looking to revolutionize how in-house attorneys consume continuing legal education (CLE) content, saw a…

Natalie Runyon March 28, 2019

The Voices & Stories of Lawyers of Color Expand through the Men of Color Project

The Men of Color Project launched in mid-2018 with a mission to build leaders in the field of law in collaboration with the American Bar…

Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color March 26, 2019

On Women & Leadership: An Interview with Janet Napolitano

There is a palpable change in the conversation on gender equity — the conversation is turning into one of action, and that is changing the…

Rose D. Ors March 26, 2019

Kenya Pierre, GC at ARAUCO NA, Describes Her Career Advancement Path as Resilience, Perseverance & Faith

Kenya Pierre, vice president, general counsel (GC) and corporate secretary at wood products manufacturer ARAUCO North America, fell into the law amid many twists and…

Transforming Womens Leadership March 21, 2019

Delta Model Update: The Most Important Area of Lawyer Competency — Personal Effectiveness Skills

Many legal experts say the legal industry is at an inflection point because the pace of change is being driven by many factors — technology,…

Natalie Runyon March 21, 2019