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Corporate Counsel

New Initiative Aims for 100 Black GCs at Top Companies by 2025

The long-term goal is to increase the number of black in-house legal leaders in both public and private large companies.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

A Simple but Important Role in Diversity for Big Law

Sitting in a diversity and inclusion orientation session when I joined my firm as a first-year associate in the fall of 2014, I quickly became reacquainted with the low numbers and low retention rates of diverse associates at big law firms generally, statistics I was only previously aware of in the abstract.
6 minute read

Law.com

Breakthrough Thinking: How to Discover and Drive Motivation in Business Development and Lead Attorneys to Greater Prosperity

Despite all the strategic planning CMOs may devote to individual attorney coaching and training, it is often not enough to support the lawyer client in connecting the dots of relationship building, reputation enhancing and contact management over the course of a career to make a remarkable difference.
8 minute read

National Law Journal

Akin Gump Adds On-Site Counseling as Firms Fret Over Mental Health

The firm is making Washington, D.C., its first office to offer on-site counseling services—and finding pent-up demand.
3 minute read

Legal Operations is Hot. But Legal Culture is Lukewarm Toward It

Legal operations is growing in importance - despite resistance from many lawyers.
10 minute read

National Law Journal

Legal Hiring Data Finds Disadvantage for DC Law Grads

Of law schools within the District of Columbia, only Georgetown University Law Center beat the national average for graduates landing full-time, long-term employment jobs requiring bar passage or aided by a law degree.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Acting General Counsel at Michigan State Resigns Amid Criticism From Trustees

Kristine Zayko is the second legal department leader that MSU has lost in the last three months.
4 minute read

Law.com

Inside Track: TED GC Talks About Harassment | After Scandal, New Face at FOX News Legal

In this week's Inside Track: In recent months, many in-house lawyers have been grappling with the implications of the #MeToo movement for their companies. One of these attorneys, TED Conferences' general counsel Nishat Ruiter, opened up about the harassment that has taken place at the organization's past events, and how TED is trying to make sure it doesn't happen again.
12 minute read

Daily Business Review

The Evolving South Florida Law Firm Office: Smaller Spaces, Multipurpose Rooms

The size, look and feel of law offices is changing across the U.S., and South Florida firms are embracing the trends to varying degrees.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Zillow's CLO Kathleen Philips Announces Retirement

Kathleen Philips, who serves as the online real estate company's chief financial officer as well as its chief legal officer, will retire from her CFO role at the end of the month but will continue her CLO duties through the end of the year.
3 minute read

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