Efficiency

Does Your Law Firm Need a Data Quality Specialist?

There is a lot of chatter these days around the increasing use of data to inform and drive business decisions within law firms. To that,…

Christopher Ende February 24, 2020

Plain Language: Because it’s ALL About the Audience

Before you write an email to a client or create website marketing content, do you stop and consider the audience for your materials? Or do…

Janet Arrowood February 24, 2020

Using Your Platform for Good: A Conversation with Checkr’s GC Irene Liu

In a new blog series, Using Your Platform for Good, Irene Liu, General Counsel of Checkr, expands on crucial topics of corporate culture, such as…

Legal Executive Institute February 20, 2020

PMI Q4 Analysis: With Demand & Rates Growing, Why Isn’t the Legal Market Stronger? Look Overhead

There are many indicators that currently signal that the legal market is gaining strength. For example, law firms saw the first two-year stretch of 1.0%…

Isaac Brooks February 19, 2020

UPFRONT & PERSONAL: “I Want Law Firms that Delight Me,” Says Jan Kang, Founder of Women’s General Counsel Network & Acting General Counsel of Makani

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

Rose D. Ors February 18, 2020

Legalweek 2020: Partnership is the Path Forward

NEW YORK — If one word could summarize the overarching themes from this year’s LegalWeek 2020, it would be “partnership.” But that word has many…

Peter Colin February 18, 2020

Data Standards: Helping Your Legal Tech Applications Talk To Each Other

Today, legal technology is proliferating by quantum leaps. Legal organizations, including law firms and in-house law departments, have access to an abundance of new technology…

Legal Executive Institute February 14, 2020

In-House Counsel Q&A: We’re Creating a Safety-Minded, Diverse and Inclusive, and Flexible Workplace, says Scott A. Levinson, Vice President of Legal Services for Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, Inc.

Scott A. Levinson, Vice President of Legal Services for Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, Inc., recently spoke with Thomson Reuters’ Practical Law The Journal:…

Legal Executive Institute February 13, 2020

2020 Report on the State of the Legal Market: A Closer Look at the Cost of Declining Productivity

The 2020 Report on the State of the Legal Market, from Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute and the Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession…

Joe Blackwood February 13, 2020

Nonprofit Clients at Kramer Levin & TrustLaw Legal Clinic Discuss Value of Legal Assistance

To commemorate last month’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the law firm Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel partnered with Thomson Reuters Foundation’s TrustLaw to provide…

Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color February 12, 2020

Securing Your Practice’s Future: Making the Pieces Fit Together

Last year was one of substantial change for many small law firms as they continued to develop and refine their skills, especially in regard to…

Mark Haddad February 12, 2020

The Modern Law Department: The Why and the How

It’s become a cliché to say that today's corporate law departments face daunting challenges — yet, given expanded legal responsibilities, ongoing regulatory developments, and pressures…

David O'Connor, Esq. February 10, 2020