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Key Future Insights from the Top Performing Talent Articles from 2019

Our Top 5 most read content involving Talent Development from 2019 tells an interesting story about new, holistic approaches to the development of legal industry…

Natalie Runyon January 23, 2020

Addressing the Problem of Uncategorized Legacy Data

It’s easy enough to enable (and require) document profiling for new documents created within the system, but it is a challenging and seemingly intractable problem…

Conrad Jacoby January 23, 2020

The Value of Public/Private Partnerships in Preventing Fraud in Federal Government Databases

Verifying the authenticity of several million names in a government database is an enormous task. But that is exactly what one of the federal government’s…

Legal Executive Institute January 22, 2020

Opportunity Knocks: Balancing Knowledge-Sharing Needs with Security Requirements

When a client hires a law firm, there is an expectation that the firm will leverage its collective knowledge for the benefit of the client.…

Gwyn McAlpine January 21, 2020

2020 Acritas Global Elite Brand Index Show Increasing Global Commitment of Top Firms

The just-released annual Acritas 2020 Global Elite Brand Index underscores how clients’ needs have become increasingly global over the last decade and how top law…

Legal Executive Institute January 21, 2020

The Lessons of Atrium: Innovation is Messy as Borders Blur Between Law Firms & Tech Companies

The overlap between software companies and law firms may be spreading, but not without casualties. The latest may be the many lawyers that had until…

Peter Colin January 16, 2020

Fighting Back Fast: Artificial Intelligence Comes to Cybersecurity

Recently, more than $240,000 was stolen by someone pretending to be an executive at a British energy company. This event does not seem all that…

Don Philmlee January 13, 2020

Intersect 2020: Lessons from a Law Firm Pricing Master Class

MIAMI — Last week I was fortunate enough to attend the 6th annual meeting of the True Value Partnering Institute, which kicked off with an…

Bill Josten January 13, 2020

General Counsel Q&A: Legal Departments Should Be Proactive, Not Reactive, says Phyllis Wallitt of Priceline.com LLC

Phyllis Wallitt, Senior Vice President & General Counsel of Priceline.com LLC, recently spoke with Thomson Reuters’ Practical Law The Journal: Transactions & Business (PLJ) about…

Legal Executive Institute January 08, 2020

CURIOUS MINDS: “Success Is Bringing People Along” — A Conversation with Jason Barnwell, Assistant GC at Microsoft

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

Rose D. Ors January 06, 2020

2020 Report on the State of the Legal Market: From Incremental Change to Revolutionary Innovation

Ever heard of the “Fosbury Flop”? Whether you have or not, if you’ve watched the sport of high jumping anytime in the past 50 years…

Bill Josten January 06, 2020

Law Firms Feeling Headaches from Outside Counsel Guidelines, Struggling to Comply, Report Says

For law firms and their clients, Outside Counsel Guidelines (OCGs) are simply a fact of life. More than 80% of corporations reported they use some…

Bill Josten December 17, 2019