Remote Working

Redefining the office: Strategies for real estate relevance in a post-pandemic world

For decades, the commercial office was known as the workplace, defined by the primary activity of the day: work. People had to be physically present…

Kim Sullivan March 30, 2021

Best practices for another year of virtual client development

Since the start of the new year, law firms and their client development strategists have had time to reflect on last year and assess what…

Haile Arrindell March 19, 2021

State of the Legal Market analysis: Occupancy spend at multiyear lows

Like a massive wave, the insecurity and instability that has marked much of the global business world throughout 2020 is likely to leave a drastically…

Isaac Brooks February 16, 2021

Can the gig economy work in a law firm?

On an almost daily basis, we are given ample examples of the gig economy in action, from your Uber driver, to your Instacart grocery shopper,…

Bob Dolinsky January 19, 2021

Year in review: In Q3 2020, lawyer headcount contracted for first time since 2009

Leading up to the release of the “2021 Report on the State of the Legal Market” on January 12, 2021, we will reexamine the tumultuous…

Isaac Brooks January 07, 2021

Virtual client interviews: An effective way to engage clients & grow business (even during a pandemic)

Corporate clients commonly say that the lawyers in their outside law firms “need to understand my business.” But what does this mean? Having facilitated scores…

The Thomson Reuters Institute December 28, 2020

How to normalize work-family policies usage within workplace culture

The late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg kept a photo hanging in her judicial chambers that showed her son gazing at his newborn baby.…

Rangita de Silva de Alwis October 27, 2020

New Acritas report shows how the pandemic has changed the future of legal work

The COVID-19 pandemic, the ensuing lockdowns and economic crisis have given many people a chance to reflect on their lives. Further, the dramatic switch to…

Acritas October 12, 2020

Positive outlook on remote on-boarding for incoming associates (and lateral hires)

In March as the pandemic began to change the way law firms approached many of their most basic functions, many firms were compelled to make…

Dr. Sharon Meit Abrahams October 06, 2020

Lawyer productivity under attack: How to fight back

Remote working has proven to be largely a success — at least from the perspective of lawyer well-being. The impact of remote working on lawyer…

Jen Dezso September 14, 2020

It Takes a Village: ILTA>ON tackles remote law firm security

The realities of the pandemic not only forced the legal industry to work from home, it forced the annual conference of the International Legal Technology…

Peter Colin September 09, 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