New York (NY) Newly Admitted CLE Course Catalog

In today's fast-paced work environment, the ability to manage up and inspire down can give you a significant advantage in communicating effectively and advancing your legal career. This session will provide you with practical tools and strategies to become a more effective communicator and build positive relationships with your colleagues and managers. Our expert panelists will cover important topics such as active listening, giving and receiving feedback, conflict resolution and building trust.

Law firms on the cutting edge of combining internal law firm data with public datasets will describe their use cases and share their secrets for improving substantive work-product and developing new business. We’ll discuss how firms have married state and federal litigation dockets, patent and trademark prosecution dockets, new lawsuit feeds, and public and private data on deals (e.g., M&A) — all to build workflows for: (1) analytics and research (2) better RFPs, (3) experience databases, and (4) user-driven development.

As organizations generate and store increasing volumes of personal and sensitive data they are becoming an ever greater target for cybercriminals wanting to extort data for financial gain. The risk of getting it wrong has never been so high. Listen to our panel of experts discuss the threat & regulatory landscape, considerations in breach response, and the opportunity to go from head-ache to head-start.