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Gratitude – In the Spirit of the Season, Legal Project Managers Deserve a Toast
Gratitude – In the Spirit of the Season, Legal Project Managers Deserve a Toast
There’s a lot of clinking of champagne glasses this time of year. This is when the unsung heroes get sung, so to speak. The mail carriers, the...
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December 23, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Gratitude – In the Spirit of the Season, Legal Project Managers Deserve a Toast
Workflow 101
Workflow 101
Key to success in any Accounting business is effectively managing workflow. That means processing the (financial) data (or traffic) that enters...
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December 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Workflow 101
Trauma-Informed Workplace Investigations: Practical Guidance for Legal Professionals
Trauma-Informed Workplace Investigations: Practical Guidance for Legal Professionals
Workplace investigations often require navigating sensitive and highly personal issues, especially when allegations involve sexual misconduct,...
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December 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Trauma-Informed Workplace Investigations: Practical Guidance for Legal Professionals
Can legal advice prepared with the help of Generative AI attract privilege?
Can legal advice prepared with the help of Generative AI attract privilege?
Yes, in certain circumstances. -
What is the legal position? -
Absent a test case or legislative reform, the existing legal framework could...
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December 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Can legal advice prepared with the help of Generative AI attract privilege?
Leading with Intention: Turning Year-End Lessons into BD Momentum
Leading with Intention: Turning Year-End Lessons into BD Momentum
As the year comes to a close, legal marketing and business development teams finally get a narrow but valuable pause. After a year of supporting...
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December 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Leading with Intention: Turning Year-End Lessons into BD Momentum
What 2025 Taught Me About Community, Leadership, and Showing Up
What 2025 Taught Me About Community, Leadership, and Showing Up
As 2025 comes to a close (this year has FLOWN), I’ve been thinking about what it has meant — for the International Lawyers Network, for the legal...
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December 20, 2025 at 2:28 AM
What 2025 Taught Me About Community, Leadership, and Showing Up
The Legal Department of 2030: How AI Will Redefine Legal Workflows
The Legal Department of 2030: How AI Will Redefine Legal Workflows
As we approach 2030, corporate legal departments are standing at the threshold of a major transformation. Artificial intelligence (AI) is no...
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December 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The Legal Department of 2030: How AI Will Redefine Legal Workflows
ChatGPT Restrictions Explained: OpenAI Bans Personalized Professional Advice in 2025 Update
ChatGPT Restrictions Explained: OpenAI Bans Personalized Professional Advice in 2025 Update
Have you ever asked ChatGPT a legal question, a medical “what does this mean,” or even a financial “should I do this?” If so, you may be...
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December 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
ChatGPT Restrictions Explained: OpenAI Bans Personalized Professional Advice in 2025 Update
The Year in Class Action – 2025 Popular Reads on JD Supra
The Year in Class Action – 2025 Popular Reads on JD Supra
A look at some of the most widely read updates, insights, and commentary focused on class action and related issues and published on JD Supra...
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December 19, 2025 at 5:50 AM
The Year in Class Action – 2025 Popular Reads on JD Supra
A Talent-Stability Diagnostic for Law Firm Leaders
A Talent-Stability Diagnostic for Law Firm Leaders
After more than two decades working in lateral partner recruiting and integration, I’ve seen the same patterns emerge in firms that ultimately...
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December 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
A Talent-Stability Diagnostic for Law Firm Leaders
Legal Industry Becoming a Target for Independent Contractor Misclassification Claims: November 2025 IC Legal News Update
Legal Industry Becoming a Target for Independent Contractor Misclassification Claims: November 2025 IC Legal News Update
The first case on which we report below involves a class action lawsuit asserting independent contractor (IC) misclassification involving...
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December 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Legal Industry Becoming a Target for Independent Contractor Misclassification Claims: November 2025 IC Legal News Update
Enhance Your Legal Department’s Performance with Strategic Planning and Technology
Enhance Your Legal Department’s Performance with Strategic Planning and Technology
In-House Legal Departments, like any other business function, must be efficient and effective to deliver the best possible results. They must...
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December 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Enhance Your Legal Department’s Performance with Strategic Planning and Technology
Trump’s AI Executive Order Reshapes State - Federal Power in Tech Regulation
Trump’s AI Executive Order Reshapes State - Federal Power in Tech Regulation
State capitals are used to hard questions about federal power, but this time it is not over taxes or guns—it is about algorithms.
In the...
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December 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Trump’s AI Executive Order Reshapes State - Federal Power in Tech Regulation
Second Requests Settle In: HSR Data Points to a New Normal in M&A Scrutiny
Second Requests Settle In: HSR Data Points to a New Normal in M&A Scrutiny
ComplexDiscovery Editor’s Note: The FY 2024 Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Annual Report confirms that Second Request rates have rebounded to pre-2020...
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December 18, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Second Requests Settle In: HSR Data Points to a New Normal in M&A Scrutiny
[Podcast] Embracing AI: Driving Legal Innovation
[Podcast] Embracing AI: Driving Legal Innovation
On this Ropes & Gray podcast, asset management partner Sarah Davidoff is joined by colleagues Ty Owen, Olivia Yoon, and Doug Ballanco to discuss...
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December 18, 2025 at 12:48 AM
[Podcast] Embracing AI: Driving Legal Innovation
Ethical Leadership in the AI Era: Inside the 2025 NAVEX + Granite GRC Executive Forum
Ethical Leadership in the AI Era: Inside the 2025 NAVEX + Granite GRC Executive Forum
At the historic Union League of Philadelphia, senior compliance and risk leaders gathered for the NAVEX + Granite GRC Executive Forum, “Shaping...
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December 17, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Ethical Leadership in the AI Era: Inside the 2025 NAVEX + Granite GRC Executive Forum
The Holiday Gift of Civility
The Holiday Gift of Civility
The year-end holidays can be a busy and stressful time for litigators. As the holiday season approaches, family obligations increase. Courthouses...
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December 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The Holiday Gift of Civility
Strategic Pricing 2026: Year-End Insights and a Roadmap for Law Firm Leaders
Strategic Pricing 2026: Year-End Insights and a Roadmap for Law Firm Leaders
As 2025 draws to a close, the legal industry is entering a period defined by widening performance gaps. Market conditions remain uneven across...
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December 17, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Strategic Pricing 2026: Year-End Insights and a Roadmap for Law Firm Leaders
PR: Leading from the Middle – The Dual Art of Managing Up and Down
PR: Leading from the Middle – The Dual Art of Managing Up and Down
Leadership is not reserved for the C-suite. It’s cultivated in the space between strategy and execution. At the recent LMA Mid-Atlantic...
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December 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
PR: Leading from the Middle – The Dual Art of Managing Up and Down
CFTC Issues No-Action Relief for Swap Data Reporting Error Corrections
CFTC Issues No-Action Relief for Swap Data Reporting Error Corrections
On December 11, 2025, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued no-action relief regarding the correction of errors in swap...
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December 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
CFTC Issues No-Action Relief for Swap Data Reporting Error Corrections
Smart Tech, Stronger Cases: Legal Tools in Litigation – Q1 2026 Facts & Findings
Smart Tech, Stronger Cases: Legal Tools in Litigation – Q1 2026 Facts & Findings
Legal tech leads to stronger cases, streamlining workflows and improving client satisfaction. A NOTE ON PERSPECTIVE - Empty heading With so much...
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December 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Smart Tech, Stronger Cases: Legal Tools in Litigation – Q1 2026 Facts & Findings
Clio Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire vLex for US$1 Billion, Defining a New Era for AI-Powered Legal Technology
Clio Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire vLex for US$1 Billion, Defining a New Era for AI-Powered Legal Technology
The transformative union of legal research, practice management, and cutting-edge AI marks a category shift in legal technology that converges...
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December 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Clio Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire vLex for US$1 Billion, Defining a New Era for AI-Powered Legal Technology
Cross-Examine Your AI: The Lawyer’s Cure for Hallucinations
Cross-Examine Your AI: The Lawyer’s Cure for Hallucinations
I. Introduction: The Untested Expert in Your Office - AI walks into your office like a consulting expert who works fast, inexpensively, and...
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December 17, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Cross-Examine Your AI: The Lawyer’s Cure for Hallucinations
Confidence Meets Complexity: Full Results from the 2H 2025 eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey
Confidence Meets Complexity: Full Results from the 2H 2025 eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey
ComplexDiscovery Editor’s Note: Confidence is rising fast across the legal data services landscape—but that confidence now demands...
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December 17, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Confidence Meets Complexity: Full Results from the 2H 2025 eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey
When Legal Gatekeeps Ethics and Compliance
When Legal Gatekeeps Ethics and Compliance
For many Ethics and Compliance teams, a close relationship with the Legal department can be too much of a good thing.
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December 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
When Legal Gatekeeps Ethics and Compliance