Law Firms

Luminating Latina Lawyers: Minding the representation gap

Latinx culture is quite well-known for being family oriented; and these community values impact the career decisions of many Latina lawyers, often conflicting with career…

Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color August 07, 2020

What are the best legal operations use cases supported by app development platforms?

In the first part of this series, we discussed some of the potential value propositions of enterprise software vendor app development (App Dev) platforms within…

Kenneth Jones August 06, 2020

Law School Innovators: 5 insights for effectively teaching legal research during the pandemic

During the pandemic, how can law schools keep classes productive and engaging with the shift to online learning? A recent webinar, Teaching Legal Research in…

Brooke Stokke August 05, 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

What law firms need to learn from Millennials & COVID-19

For years, millennial attorneys have asked, cajoled, and failed to get their law firms to loosen the reins on upgrading new technology and allowing them…

Dr. Sharon Meit Abrahams July 30, 2020

On being a black lawyer amid racial injustice during the Black Lives Matter movement

It’s become an unfortunate aspect of American life today that racism has found its way into the very fabric of our society, including the workplace…

Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color July 29, 2020

Law department procurement: Is buying legal services the same as buying laptops?

For years now, corporate law departments have been asked to work with their companies’ procurement or purchasing departments. Most general counsel (GCs) and chief operating…

Audrey Rubin July 29, 2020

Managing the teleworking office

Over the past four months, and with only limited advance preparation, organizations all over the United States embarked on an unprecedented experiment in distributed, remote…

Conrad Jacoby July 28, 2020

Is the Am Law 200 even a “category?”

This 3-part blog series was written by Bruce MacEwen and Janet Stanton of Adam Smith, Esq. In our reflections on the release of the 2020 Am…

Legal Executive Institute July 27, 2020

Artificial intelligence: Minding the gap between hype & performance

Artificial intelligence (AI) applications have held law firms, legal software vendors, and the legal press in thrall over the past few years. But has success…

Jeff Rovner July 23, 2020