Client Relations

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

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

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

The Am Law 200: “Envy and its Discontents”

This 3-part series was written by Bruce MacEwen and Janet Stanton of Adam Smith, Esq. In the previous installment of this three-part series analyzing the recently…

Legal Executive Institute August 19, 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

Law Firm Partner Profits: What really stands in the way of profit growth?

Even before the onset of the global pandemic, law firms of all sizes were concerned about how to continue growing their bottom line into the…

Bill Josten August 17, 2020

Economic upheaval is an opportunity for “reimagining law firms,” panel says

A months-long pandemic, the largest protest movement in U.S. history, an uncertain economic outlook — or in other words, the perfect context in which to…

Peter Neal August 14, 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

What the heck is a legal platform & why does it matter now?

In the past, I’ve spoke about a possible tsunami of change within the legal industry. It is something I have been carefully watching for several…

Joseph Raczynski August 04, 2020

Gen Z allyship research insights: Institutional allyship as a partial fix for sexual harassment

This research update was written by Rangita de Silva de Alwis, the Associate Dean of International Affairs at Penn Law, who leads the research on transformative leadership…

Transforming Womens Leadership August 03, 2020

Legal Geek’s Uncertain Decade: The future of legal technology & digital transformation

By 2030 we will see significant lawyer work being done by machines. As exponential growth of technology consumes to world, the legal industry is especially…

Joseph Raczynski August 03, 2020