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Decipher Investigative Intelligence

Beware the Off-Cycle Lateral

Timing is everything, as the saying goes — and it certainly holds true when it comes to assessing the risk of lateral partner candidates. Indeed, Decipher Investigative Intelligence analysis reveals a significant trend:...more

Decipher Investigative Intelligence

Cruel Summer: How to Lower Risks This On-Campus Interviewing Season

It’s OCI season, and law firms are already scrambling to recruit the next batch of summer associates. But it’s imperative to remember that your potential summer associates carry risk, too — and a Zoom interview and a quick...more

TransPerfect Legal

Key Insights from the Corporate Counsel Summit 2024

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The 2024 Corporate Counsel Summit, hosted by Lawyers Weekly on May 2, brought together 350+ professionals from the Australian in-house legal community for a day of learning and networking. TransPerfect Legal’s Tom Balmer...more

Integreon

Global Impact: Exploring Business Continuity and Growth with Offshoring Strategies

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In the current landscape of heightened customer expectations and fierce industry competition, law firms find themselves needing to exceed traditional service delivery norms. The need to go above and beyond in meeting client...more

A&O Shearman

Alumni Yearbook - A responsible business

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Change is becoming one of the few certainties at Allen & Overy as it adapts to the ever-developing consequences of globalism, technology and human resources. As a responsible business at the forefront of innovation, we have...more

DRI

[Event] Law Firm Leaders and Managing Partners Conference - November 14th - 15th, Austin, TX

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Join the Law Practice Management Committee in Austin for a look at the new “Wild West” of issues facing law firm leaders in defense firms around the country. Law Firm Practice Management has entered a new frontier with...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Lawyers for the...

Federal District Court Holds That Engagement Letter Limited Scope of Law Firm's Duties

The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, granted defendant law firm's motion to dismiss the complaint filed by plaintiff—Today's Growth Consultant Inc.—a former client of the...more

Lighthouse

Legal's Balancing Act: Risk, Innovation, and Advancing Strategic Priorities

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As legal teams expand their responsibilities and business impact throughout their organizations, there’s a delicate balance legal professionals must strike in their roles: be better partners and balance risk. To tease out...more

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

The old lawyer letter

When I was at law school, I was the editor of the student magazine there and I broke the story about a scandal at one of the law journals. The editor in chief was implicated and she gave me a letter from her lawyer, asking...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

[Event] Interact 2022 - August 14th - 17th, Nashville, TN

Exclusive roadmap reveals, immersive Q&A with top product & industry experts, live product demos, electrifying presentations, co-innovation opportunities, and so much more— all coming to you live from the heart of Nashville,...more

Lighthouse

Legal’s Balancing Act: Risk, Innovation, and Advancing Strategic Priorities

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Is it worth the risk? Attorneys and legal leaders wrestle with this critical question often as they assess a variety of business decisions—from innovation in products or services offered by their business to new collaboration...more

Hanzo

Managing Change, Improving Adoption: How IT Can Better Support the Legal Department

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Lawyers have a reputation—sometimes deserved, sometimes not—of being technophobic Luddites. While there are certainly exceptions, many lawyers resist change and avoid new technology. When change becomes inevitable, those same...more

Allen Matkins

Law Firm Does Not Purposely Avail Itself Of The "Benefits" Of California As A Forum

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The issue of where an attorney is practicing law is a vexing one in light of modern technology which allows attorneys and their clients to be located just about anywhere in the world.  The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated...more

Lathrop GPM

[Virtual Event] State of Litigation – Part 1 - June 9th, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm CT

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Please join Lathrop GPM for our annual State of Litigation event, being held virtually for the second year. This free, three-part webinar series will explore the latest trends in litigation, risks facing companies today, and...more

Epiq

More Tech, More Problems? New ABA Rules on Professional Conduct for Working Virtually Provide Guidance

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In March, the American Bar Association (ABA) released a lengthy opinion on virtual practice. Formal Opinion 498 states that while the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct allow lawyers to conduct their practice virtually,...more

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC

Lawyers Encouraged to Vet Tech Vendors Carefully

Law firms are prime targets for hackers. Why? Because their computer networks contain highly concentrated, high-value information about many parties that is often not well-protected. One often-overlooked vulnerability is the...more

Pullman & Comley, LLC

ABA Ethics Committee Weighs in on Practicing Law Virtually

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In  Formal Opinion 498, issued on March 10, 2021, the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility has provided some guidance on the ethical obligations triggered when a lawyer...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

[Virtual Event] 20th Annual Legal Malpractice & Risk Management (LMRM) Conference - March 2nd - 4th, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm CT

Please join us for the 20th Annual Legal Malpractice & Risk Management (LMRM) Conference—An All New Virtual Experience for three half-days of practical and engaging online programming focused on current and important...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Lawyers' Lawyer...

The Lawyers' Lawyer Newsletter - Recent Developments in Risk Management - Halloween 2020

Firm Administration – Expense Reporting – Oversight – Discipline - Trick or Treat Editors' Note: Aside from a global pandemic, is there anything more bizarre and troubling than lawyers stealing seemingly paltry sums from...more

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The Lawyers' Lawyer Newsletter – Recent Developments in Risk Management – September 2020

Prospective Clients – Duty of Confidentiality – Potentially Harmful or Disqualifying Information ABA Formal Opinion 492 (June 9, 2020) - Risk Management Issue: When dealing with prospective clients, what steps can a lawyer...more

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC

COVID-19 Fatigue? Don’t Let Your Ethics Guard Down

COVID-19 fatigue is real. The typical work day is long, the work is hard, and the end is nowhere in sight across much of the country. After months of “working from home,” lawyers can be forgiven if they’re weary of being...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Law Firm Cyber Alerts

Beware of Fraudsters Posing as Government Investigators to Obtain Protected Health Information

Risk Management Question - What precautions can law firms, along with their lawyers and staff, take when they receive an unexpected request for protected health information (PHI) from someone claiming to be a...more

Goulston & Storrs PC

Prior Work Conflicts in the Age of COVID-19

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It is always the case that lawyers and law firms must stay attuned to the possibility of prior work conflicts: conflicts of interest that arise when a firm’s interest in protecting its own prior work, or protecting the firm...more

International Lawyers Network

Client Care in the Time of Coronavirus

We’re at a unique point in our histories right now – everything seems to be in an upheaval, and our nerves are frayed. Many of us are finally getting to a place that feels like a new normal, but there are still some things...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Law Firm Cyber Alerts

How to Guard Against Proliferating COVID-19 Scams

Risk Management Question - What precautions can lawyers, staff, and law firms take to avoid pandemic-related cyber scams?...more

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