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Q&A with Diversity Lab’s Caren Stacy (part 2): Looking at the “Women in Law Hackathon” and Measuring Success

This is the second part of Transforming Women’s Leadership in the Law’s interview with Caren Ulrich Stacy. In the first part, we discussed the creation…

Transforming Womens Leadership July 14, 2016

Performance Measuring: Three Buckets of Important KPIs

As I’ve written here before, companies are becoming more sophisticated when it comes to measuring their outside legal counsel’s performance, yet law firms do not…

Nancey Watson July 13, 2016

Q&A Interview: How Did You Get Hacked? Finding Better Protection by Fishing in the Dark Web

As news of data breaches and hacker break-ins continue to make headlines, many companies and law firms may feel helpless as hackers continue to get…

Gregg Wirth July 12, 2016

Q&A Interview: A Managing Partner Talks About Maintaining Client Relationships

The question of how best to deal with clients is utmost on the minds of most law firm leaders, partners and lawyers. Now, in today’s…

Legal Executive Institute July 11, 2016

Infographic: Crowdfunding 101 — Is Your Start-up Ready?

Is your (or your client’s) startup ready for crowdfunding? This infographic provides an easy reference view of the different types of crowdfunding, their benefits, limitations…

Practical Law July 11, 2016

Forum Magazine Exclusive: Fenwick & West’s Attorney-for-Hire Unit Thrives amid Legal Industry Changes

Several years back, West Coast law firm Fenwick & West started hearing rumblings from some of its bread-and-butter clients — small or start-up tech companies that required…

Forum Magazine June 27, 2016

Is Disruptive Change Really Making a Difference in How Law Firms Approach the Market?

How much has disruptive change in the legal marketplace spurred law firms to actually change strategy to confront these challenges? So little that 66% of…

Bill Josten June 23, 2016

The Business Imperative of Good Sleep: Are Law Firms Snoozing and Losing?

In an article in Practical Law UK, author Anna Fletcher, Director in Employment, Labour and Equalities at Gowling WLG, discusses research by Prof. Vicki Culpin of Ashridge Business…

Legal Executive Institute June 13, 2016

CodeX FutureLaw Conference: Progress in the Trenches (Part 2)

STANFORD, Calif. — If the various criticisms of the legal industry’s slow pace of change represented in Part 1 of this blog post set the…

David Curle June 07, 2016

Contract Maturity Model (Part 1): From One-Off Contracting to Portfolio Management

This is the first in a series of three articles examining how contract creation is evolving to meet the needs of modern business. This initial…

Kingsley Martin June 01, 2016

Forum Magazine Exclusive: Law Firms Tentatively Embrace Open Office Floor Plans

When McCarthy Tétrault, one of Canada’s premier law firms, invited its partners, lawyers and staff to move into the firm’s new open office spaces in…

Forum Magazine June 01, 2016

CodeX FutureLaw Conference: The Legal System on Trial (Part 1)

STANFORD, Calif. — At the annual CodeX FutureLaw 2016 conference, hosted by Stanford Law School’s CodeX center, legal tech was on trial — literally and…

David Curle May 25, 2016