Midsize Law Firms Blog Posts

Legal Geek Coming to Brooklyn: A New Kind of Legal Conference

If you live in North America and haven’t experienced a Legal Geek event — now’s your chance. A not-to-be-missed apex of the legaltech year in…

David Curle May 02, 2019

Incubating the Next Gen Legal Profession’s Diversity & Inclusion Leaders

The Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession (IILP) launched its Social Impact Incubator to develop the next generation of diversity thought leaders in the…

Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color April 30, 2019

Knowing Your Customer: What Midsize Law Firms Need to Appreciate about the “2019 State of Corporate Law Departments Report”

Today, the most successful companies remain hyper-focused on their customer’s needs and changing behaviors. For example, Netflix invested heavily in its streaming capabilities after seeing…

Jordan Schuetzle April 25, 2019

How to Turn Feedback into New, Sustainable Behaviors by Keeping It Simple

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 24, 2019

A Lucrative Micro-Niche: Climate Change Practice (Part 1)

In 2016, the nations of the world created the Paris Agreement, an international call to action in the battle against a rapidly changing climate. The…

Patrick J. McKenna April 24, 2019

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

FutureLaw 2019: Rearranging the Bits of the LegalTech Revolution

STANFORD, Calif. — The annual FutureLaw conference — produced by CodeX, the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, with the sponsorship of Thomson Reuters — has…

David Curle April 18, 2019

Law Firms See M&A Transactions as a Driver for 2019: A Look into the Numbers

In the 2019 Citi-Hildebrant Report, law firm leaders identified Merger & Acquisition (M&A) and Transactional work as the primary driver of practice matters for this year.…

Becky Stander April 16, 2019

Legal Operations: How to Develop a Win/Win Relationship Between In-house Counsel and Law Firms

One of the most significant developments going on today in the legal industry is how the rise of legal operations has pushed in-house law departments…

Nancey Watson April 16, 2019

Key Findings from Marketing Partner Forum Survey: Getting Buy-in from Your Lawyers

The Annual Marketing Partner Forum — most recently held in January 2019 at the Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel in Dana Point, California — provides an opportunity to check…

Silvia Coulter April 12, 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

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