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Forum Magazine: In Germany, GCs Navigate a Changing Role

What keeps in-house lawyers awake at night? The answer to this question changes over time and varies across companies and countries. Summarized below are my…

Mari Sako June 24, 2019

CURIOUS MINDS: A Discussion with Margaret Hagan of the Stanford Legal Design Lab

We continue our new column, “Curious Minds” created and written by Rose Ors to tap into the minds of legal innovators, disrupters, and out-of-the-box thinkers…

Rose D. Ors June 24, 2019

New White Paper Details How Law Firms Are Using ALSPs

Is the emergence and growth of the market for alternative legal service providers (ALSPs) a threat to the dominance of law firms in the eyes…

Legal Executive Institute June 20, 2019

The Hidden Costs of Cutting your Legal Marketing Budget

It’s the classic chicken-and-egg problem: You don’t have money to invest in marketing, but you need marketing to grow. And while there are plenty of…

Michelle Calcote King June 19, 2019

BigLaw Market Report: Am Law 100 Firms Continue Strong Performance in Q1 2019

We have written extensively in the past about how Am Law 100 firms seem to have solidified their position as market leaders among the segments…

Bill Josten June 19, 2019

Want to Be a Rainmaker? Here’s a Few Key Concepts You Need to Know

Lawyers who aspire to be partners or run their own shop are inevitably expected to put down their legal pads and do something law school…

Tad Simons June 18, 2019

Tips for Building Connections and Books of Business for Women Junior Partners

Strategic networking skills are critically important to women’s advancement in the legal profession, especially for newer women partners, explained two leading women lawyers. The comments…

Transforming Womens Leadership June 18, 2019

Forum Magazine Infographic: Landmark Study Shows ALSPs Thriving, Thanks to Organic Growth and Increasingly Sophisticated Services

Just two years ago, many in the legal profession could credibly claim that they didn’t quite understand what alternative legal service providers (ALSPs) did, nor…

Forum Magazine June 17, 2019

Us Too? Bullying & Sexual Harassment in the Legal Profession

NEW YORK — At the International Bar Association’s (IBA’s) Us Too event — conducted in conjunction with the release of the largest-ever survey examining the…

Legal Executive Institute June 13, 2019

Forum Magazine: Canadian GCs Forge Innovative Paths

In Canadian Lawyer magazine’s fifth annual Innovatio Awards, the general counsel and the legal departments for Canadian companies Toronto-Dominion Bank and Points International Ltd. were…

Jennifer Brown June 12, 2019

Augment 2019: Professional Services Laying the Groundwork for AI in Practice

CHICAGO — The Legal Executive Institute’s Augment 2019 conference stuck a finger in the wind of how far artificial intelligence and its ilk have transformed…

David Curle June 11, 2019

Infographic: How Much Do Law Firms Spend on Marketing and Business Development?

How much law firms spend on marketing and business development is always a question that generates much debate. Firms don’t want to be outspent, but…

Legal Executive Institute June 10, 2019