Digital transformation and its pandemic-produced acceleration have elevated talent to a top-level business priority. For employers, it has caused them to rethink what talent means in a dramatically shifting marketplace.... read more →
When people have points of reference that are humanizing, that demystifies difference. —Laverne Cox The pandemic has intensified the daily battle of subsistence for hundreds of millions of our fellow... read more →
Big Law has demonstrated remarkable resilience. It has weathered financial crises, economic downturns, the Big Four, automation, social change, corporate digital transformation, and the Pandemic,. Big Law channels Mark Twain—... read more →
“Talent” is a common term lacking a conventional meaning. The importance of a working definition goes far beyond semantics; it is critical to individual and enterprise success. Talent, like other... read more →
The ‘hook-up’ of LISA and Billy Bot, legal robots, was announced last week. Many in the corporate realm will view their linkage as a publicity stunt and more artificial intelligence... read more →
Lawyers are taught to strive for perfection. That means crafting impeccable memoranda with more-than-ample precedent, syntactical precision, and just the right number of erudite footnotes. That’s great if one is... read more →
The corporate segment of the legal marketplace is a buyer’s market, and they are driving change. Legal consumers were once content to proscribe cost-controls including discounts, staffing limitations, “most favored... read more →
Until recently, lawyers needed just a few tools to ply their trade–legal knowledge, licensure, and clients. Good ones had a fuller kit–specialized skills and/or expertise, oratorical and writing proficiency, and... read more →
\The legal industry is becoming digitized. What does that mean? Digitization is a common term lacking a uniform definition. It is often used to describe a suite of IT assets--... read more →
There are three categories of intelligence in the legal vertical--intellectual, emotional, and artificial. Many lawyers have elevated IQ’s, though relatively few seem to possess high EQ’s-- commonly called ‘people skills’.... read more →