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How to Create a Firm Mentoring Program That Is Efficient, Effective, and Motivational [Q&A]

Lisa Tierney and Andy George explain how to avoid common pitfalls that other professional services firms have experienced and how to make your current program more efficient and effective.

Are Law Firms Capable of Driving Innovation?

One firm, Akerman LLP, has formed an R&D Council to help drive legal innovation – will it succeed?

Conflicts Issue Rears Its Head In Multi-Million Dollar 3M Pollution Suit

Covington & Burling is working on contingency for the State of Minnesota in what is potentially the largest environmental damages […]

Why Bank Execs Avoided Jail Time In Wake Of Great Recession

In a lengthy piece, the New York Times magazine examines why, in the wake of the largest man-made economic catastrophe […]

Cautious Endorsement of Legal Project Management

A Today’s General Counsel survey finds that legal project management is slowly catching on, especially among smaller legal departments.

Fewer CEOs Fired In 2013

Last year the percentage of companies that fired their CEOs was the lowest since 2010. Only 23.8 percent of all […]

A Litigation Risk In Hiring Laterals

Law firms that bring in lateral hires from a firm on the brink of dissolution may risk a future lawsuit, […]

Supreme Court: Voters’ Initiative To End Affirmative Action Is Constitutional

Justice Kennedy wrote for the Court that restricting Michigan voters from making their own decision on affirmative action would be “an unprecedented restriction on a fundamental right held not just by one person but by all in common.”

President Seeks Additional Funding For DOL To Clear Case Backlog

President Obama is trying to ease fiscal restraints at DOL that have kept the Office from Administrative Law Judges from hiring personnel and led to massive backups, which ALJ Chief Judge Stephen Purcell said ” we will not likely recover for years to come.”

The Heartbleed Lesson for All Companies? Manage the Risk…

Having a plan in place, and purchasing a cyber liability policy, are crucial steps that will aid a company in addressing a cyber security breach.

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