Practice Management

Leading with innovation: Introducing knowledge management into a regional law firm

Innovation can be a loaded word in the legal industry, but broken down simply, it really means just introducing new things or methods to improve…

Transforming Womens Leadership September 01, 2020

Reimagining legal operations: The business infrastructure of legal services

It’s strongly evident now that legal operations are taking a more important role in how the delivery of legal services are conceptualized and executed. Indeed,…

Joshua El-Bey August 31, 2020

UPFRONT & PERSONAL: Recruiting individuals with a high EQ will give you a diverse team, says Seth Weissman, CLO of Marqeta

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

Rose D. Ors August 24, 2020

5 actions employers can take to create antiracist workplaces

Being antiracist is naturally a hot topic amid the recent racial unrest and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement. We wanted to explore…

Natalie Runyon August 20, 2020

CLOC Core Functions: Using business intelligence to make better decisions & increase legal department influence 

Most legal services organizations have not reached the stage of using data analytics to their fullest extent. Indeed, the current reality is that in-house departments…

Marc Jenkins August 18, 2020

Maximizing mentoring relationships, with Susan Berson, Partner at Mintz

Being a mentor has “taught me a lot about how to communicate with others, how to be empathetic, and how to put myself in their…

Transforming Womens Leadership August 13, 2020

How will legal operations teams shape the “New Normal” for legal?

The “new normal” is something more to be guessed at than completely understood at this point, as there remains a high degree of uncertainty around…

Bill Josten August 11, 2020

Using Your Platform for Good: Unleashing leadership

In our ongoing blog series, Using Your Platform for Good, author Irene Liu, General Counsel of Checkr, expands on crucial topics of corporate and workplace culture. A few…

Irene Liu August 10, 2020

Luminating Latina Lawyers: Minding the representation gap

Latinx culture is quite well-known for being family oriented; and these community values impact the career decisions of many Latina lawyers, often conflicting with career…

Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color August 07, 2020

On being a black lawyer amid racial injustice during the Black Lives Matter movement

It’s become an unfortunate aspect of American life today that racism has found its way into the very fabric of our society, including the workplace…

Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color July 29, 2020

Law department procurement: Is buying legal services the same as buying laptops?

For years now, corporate law departments have been asked to work with their companies’ procurement or purchasing departments. Most general counsel (GCs) and chief operating…

Audrey Rubin July 29, 2020

Managing the teleworking office

Over the past four months, and with only limited advance preparation, organizations all over the United States embarked on an unprecedented experiment in distributed, remote…

Conrad Jacoby July 28, 2020