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Improve Your Vision in 2020: Why Being a Visionary Leader Is Critical in Times of Dynamic Change

“What leaders struggle with most is communicating an image of the future that draws others in — that speaks to what others see and feel.”…

Mark Beese January 30, 2020

Eyes on the Prize: Survival Strategies for Midsize Law Firms Facing Big Law in Regional Markets

While global expansion garners top attention in media outlets, another dramatic shift among law firms is taking place at home: Big Law is invading secondary…

Marcie Borgal Shunk January 28, 2020

White Paper: Law Firm Leader Perceptions of the Value of Technology

Law firm leaders who are engaged in making decisions about the technology that’s implemented at their firms seem to uniformly understand that such technology will…

Legal Executive Institute January 27, 2020

Key Future Insights from the Top Performing Talent Articles from 2019

Our Top 5 most read content involving Talent Development from 2019 tells an interesting story about new, holistic approaches to the development of legal industry…

Natalie Runyon January 23, 2020

Addressing the Problem of Uncategorized Legacy Data

It’s easy enough to enable (and require) document profiling for new documents created within the system, but it is a challenging and seemingly intractable problem…

Conrad Jacoby January 23, 2020

The Value of Public/Private Partnerships in Preventing Fraud in Federal Government Databases

Verifying the authenticity of several million names in a government database is an enormous task. But that is exactly what one of the federal government’s…

Legal Executive Institute January 22, 2020

Opportunity Knocks: Balancing Knowledge-Sharing Needs with Security Requirements

When a client hires a law firm, there is an expectation that the firm will leverage its collective knowledge for the benefit of the client.…

Gwyn McAlpine January 21, 2020

2020 Acritas Global Elite Brand Index Show Increasing Global Commitment of Top Firms

The just-released annual Acritas 2020 Global Elite Brand Index underscores how clients’ needs have become increasingly global over the last decade and how top law…

Legal Executive Institute January 21, 2020

The Lessons of Atrium: Innovation is Messy as Borders Blur Between Law Firms & Tech Companies

The overlap between software companies and law firms may be spreading, but not without casualties. The latest may be the many lawyers that had until…

Peter Colin January 16, 2020

Fighting Back Fast: Artificial Intelligence Comes to Cybersecurity

Recently, more than $240,000 was stolen by someone pretending to be an executive at a British energy company. This event does not seem all that…

Don Philmlee January 13, 2020

Intersect 2020: Lessons from a Law Firm Pricing Master Class

MIAMI — Last week I was fortunate enough to attend the 6th annual meeting of the True Value Partnering Institute, which kicked off with an…

Bill Josten January 13, 2020

General Counsel Q&A: Legal Departments Should Be Proactive, Not Reactive, says Phyllis Wallitt of Priceline.com LLC

Phyllis Wallitt, Senior Vice President & General Counsel of Priceline.com LLC, recently spoke with Thomson Reuters’ Practical Law The Journal: Transactions & Business (PLJ) about…

Legal Executive Institute January 08, 2020