Catherine Kemnitz

January 21, 2025 | Law.com

Our industry has historically struggled with technology adoption, maintaining a certain defensiveness about the specialty and sacredness of our profession. That resistance now comes at a cost. While other industries have progressively adopted (or even rushed into the arms of) new technologies and established clear metrics for measuring their value, legal hasn’t.

By Catherine Kemnitz

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January 25, 2022 | Corporate Counsel

It's been termed the Great Resignation but as a colleague of mine likes to say, it should really be called the Great Reflection. We're not seeing lawyers question whether they should be practicing law, but rather reflecting on how, why, and for whom they practice it.

By Catherine Kemnitz

6 minute read

February 03, 2021 | Corporate Counsel

Those of us who hold the power of purse or influence in our profession must use it to nudge, push, and pull our legal ecosystem forward in order to meet twin moments of our time: the ramifications of a virus upending the way we work, and the reckoning with a call for racial justice that highlights the inadequacy of our own diversity efforts.

By Catherine Kemnitz

6 minute read