These are the five ways thought leadership is a real-time positioning tool for your personal brand
Dangers of Climbing the Ladder
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 337: Listen and Learn -- Will Revocation
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 533: Quick Tips -- How to Engage Meaningfully with Your Professors in Office Hours
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 336: Listen and Learn -- Will Formation and Execution
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 532: Listen and Learn -- Criminal Procedure: Identifications (Part 2)
Show and Tell
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Raising Capital 101: A Securities Podcast - What is this 40 Act?
Inside LMA’s TWxSW Conference: GEO, AI, Silos, and the Rule of Law - On Record PR
How Law Firms Turn Trusted Voices into Reputation Capital: On Record PR
Building the Case: Construction Litigation Essentials
You're a selfish jerk for not regularly producing thought leadership
Podcast - The Law Is the Law
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 335: How Is the NextGen Changing the Legacy UBE?
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 531: What Law Students Should Know About New Legal Tech (w/Gabe Teninbaum)
Key Discovery Points: If You’re Planning to Submit GenAI Deepfake Evidence, Make Sure It’s Believable
Mediation Matters: The Art of Turning Conflict Into Conversation
The Modern Discovery Traps that Are Upending Cases
You're probably disrespecting the consumers of your thought leadership in these five ways
Podcast - Telling the Whole Story
Mike Mellor shares a comprehensive checklist of questions which, when accompanied by relevant statistics and explanations, offer a focused guide for uncovering opportunity and driving sustainable growth within your firm....more
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Once you’ve done the mental legwork and have candidates to consider as an expert witness, how do you choose the best one? Several considerations may influence your final choice. Verifying licensure, education, and employment...more
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On November 21, 2025, Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law a measure that quietly but powerfully reshapes civil practice in New York. The amendment to CPLR Rule 2106 allows any person, wherever they may be, to affirm the...more
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the way lawyers work. For litigators, the attraction is clear: faster review, sharper analysis and definitive cost saving. Yet with these opportunities come a sharper risk – that...more
We interview Nobel Laureate David Card, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, to gain his perspectives on analyzing alleged discrimination in pay and promotions, evaluating complex university admissions...more
Many legal professionals talk about the challenge of collecting linked documents, but there are historical preservation challenges as well. Preserving linked documents may require ensuring that the content remains unchanged...more
Founded in 2021, the Gayle O’Connor Spirit Award celebrates e-discovery and legal technology community members whose singular energy, enthusiasm, and verve echo the spirit of the late Gayle O'Connor (1956-2020). The GO Spirit...more
In this video, Wayne Pollock (Founder of Copo Strategies and the Law Firm Editorial Service) explains five ways that your thought leadership can help you position yourself in the way you want to be seen by your target...more
There’s a moment every ambitious founder eventually faces—one that separates the leaders who rise from seven figures into eight … and those who stall out despite their brilliance....more
In this episode, the thirty-fifth in a series, Nate Latessa, Chief Revenue Officer and Vice President of Advisory Services for EDRM Trusted Partner HaystackID, sits down with EDRM’s Mary Mack and Holley Robinson to update us...more
This article is the second installment in our three-part series, Artificial Intelligence as Intellectual Property or “AI as IP™”, which explores how artificial intelligence assets should be treated as a form of intellectual...more
Managing partners and other firm leaders might turn their attention to an operating arena on which most have not yet focused — AI in the sales process. Leaders already are aware of the many use cases of generative AI, but the...more
Earlier this year a trial court in Montgomery County, Texas, excluded from evidence a non-stenographic deposition transcript in a civil case pending in that court. In response to this order, opponents of non-stenographic...more
Since 2021, Arizona, nonlawyers have been permitted to hold ownership in law firms, provided that these law firms meet specific criteria. With certification from the Arizona Supreme Court under the state's "alternate business...more
Having participated in mediations as an advocate and as a mediator, I can say that the mediation process lends itself well to the resolution of all kinds of personal injury claims....more
Over the past 18 months, Purpose Legal’s advisory team has consulted, perhaps more than any other eDiscovery topic, on AI-powered document review. Those conversations move very quickly to the same question: first and...more
Discovery used to be pretty straightforward. Most of the data legal teams needed lived on email servers or shared drives, making it easy to find and manage. How times have changed. Now, information resides in an...more
In this episode of "The Trial Lawyer's Handbook" podcast, litigation attorney Dan Small discusses the opportunities and challenges of "climbing the ladder" in a corruption case. This approach starts with securing a defendant...more