Client Relations

How do you lead NOW? Specific actions for leaders through the pandemic

We keep hearing that “leadership is needed to get us through the current crisis” and that “successful survival through COVID-19 requires strong leaders.” While these…

Audrey Rubin May 05, 2020

Using Your Platform for Good: How to make stronger workplaces during the pandemic

We continue our new blog series, Using Your Platform for Good, in which author Irene Liu, General Counsel of Checkr, expands on crucial topics of…

Irene Liu May 04, 2020

Curious Minds: Legal needs to overcome its “imagination problem,” says Olga V. Mack, CEO at Parley Pro

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 May 04, 2020

Data-Driven Law Firm Financial Performance & Profitability Analytics for the Next Wave

In January, I conducted a law firm sentiment survey that asked how firms performed in 2019 and whether 2020 would bring more or less favorable…

Mark Medice April 30, 2020

2020 State of Corporate Law Departments Infographic: 4 Main Takeaways

It comes as no surprise that amid the current crisis, the heavy pressure that corporate law departments were under on many fronts before has only…

Legal Executive Institute April 28, 2020

In the Current Crisis, Your Firm Needs You to be Both a Manager & a Leader

This 2-blog series was written by Bruce MacEwen and Janet Stanton of Adam Smith, Esq. In the first installment of this two-part series, we talked…

Legal Executive Institute April 28, 2020

U.S. Bank Legal Operations: Key to Achieving Success Is an Expansive Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Caren Ulrich Stacy, CEO of Diversity Lab, earlier this month urged law firm leaders to “double down on diversity” as part of her “recession advice.”…

Natalie Runyon April 27, 2020

Why Your Business Professional Team is Critical to Your Firm’s Viability Right Now

In recent weeks, the headlines say it all. Law firms are doing everything possible to minimize the economic downturn and the ongoing financial woes created…

Susan Raridon Lambreth April 27, 2020

Emerging Insights from Male Allyship Study of Gen Z Law Students at Penn Law

Male allyship is critical in the evolution of gender equality programs in the workplace. Indeed, when men are included in gender equality programs, 96% of…

Transforming Womens Leadership April 23, 2020

Boundless Realms: A Law Firm Leadership Roundtable

As the world continues to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, business executives are embracing adaptive—indeed resilient—forms of leadership as each strives to keep his or her…

Legal Executive Institute April 23, 2020

Monitoring Client Industries & Planning for the Pandemic Aftershock

Amid the fast-paced consequences of this global COVID-19 pandemic, it is already a given that every law firm must now adapt to dramatic and rapidly changing…

Patrick J. McKenna April 22, 2020

Law Firm Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis: Current Actions & Future Challenges

Over the past few weeks, the legal industry, like the rest of the economy, has struggled with how to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Essentially…

James W. Jones April 21, 2020