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Data Security For Legal Depts and Firms

Five things that legal department executives would like to see in order to help improve data security for the legal […]

The word “cooperation” is often part of court opinions on e-discovery, but its practice is often given short shrift by […]

Associate bonuses are nearly back to pre-recession levels, at least in Chicago. There even have been a few “$100,000 thank-yous,” […]

A survey of more than 2,000 Americans found that well over half of those who reported taking a vacation worked […]

The best bet, writes malpractice attorney Steve Crislip, is to screen credit worthiness in advance, but it doesn’t always work. […]

The best solution is to have a through intake process that red-flags problem clients in the first place. But if […]

Almost 40 percent of respondents in an AffinityLive study said they never tracked work hours spent reading and answering email, […]

Microsoft will launch a new practice management product for lawyers in April, Matter Center for Office 365. The program will […]

For many years, major law firms have been hiring Chinese-speaking attorneys, mostly to handle business in their overseas office. But […]

There are “new things” popping up in the legal profession: hybrids such as solo/small firm lawyer-entrepreneurs and big law associate […]