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The Legal Intelligencer

Perfecting Your Elevator Pitch: Tips for Lawyers on the Rise

"What do you do?" This is a simple question, but it is one that is often misunderstood by young lawyers. There is an uncanny impulse to blurt out with pride, "I am a lawyer!" But what does that response really convey other than the fact that a person spent three years at law school and passed the bar exam?
5 minute read

Legaltech News

Cybersecurity Skills Update for 2020

For those gaining skills to work in the industry for the first time, the challenge remains to hit the ground running with a position and, better, with a career path. Yet no career path in this industry will sidestep an ongoing foothold in the classroom — onsite or virtual.
8 minute read

Daily Business Review

How I Became a Law Firm Partner: Kelley Kronenberg's Alison Smith

In my mind, the best way to do that was to work at a large law firm as a partner. Partnership was my ultimate measure of success. I resolved to make it a reality—and I did.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

General Counsel Can Play Key Role When Boss Has to Testify

Bruce Braun of Sidley Austin talked in a recent interview with Corporate Counsel about why top managers can make horrible witnesses, and how the general counsel can help turn that problem around.
7 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Know When to Shut Up and Listen

I realize that career advice columns often boil down to a variation on the phrase, "use common sense." Yet, I was reminded recently that some lawyers can make $800,000 and fail to practice that concept.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Steps to Prepare for Your Next Client Deposition

Cases are won and lost at depositions. Establishing a prima facie case while affirmatively advancing your client's case is the primary objective.
7 minute read

Litigation Daily

Why Impressions and Visuals Matter to a Jury: True Life Trial Tales

Many jurors make decisions based on their gut. Not the lawyer's eloquent and impassioned words. Not the damning exhibit or testimony. Not the razor-sharp cross examination. And that's where visuals can make the difference.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Understanding Privilege Issues Among Multiple Parties

Most attorneys are aware that the attorney-client privilege is something to be protected with vigilance at all times. For that reason, attorneys may avoid disclosing any client communications to third parties to guard against any suggestion of waiver.
6 minute read

National Law Journal

The 2019 NLJ Legal Awards to Honor Standout Lawyers, Firms

This year, these lawyers and law firms stood above the rest. We'll honor them on Oct. 30 at The Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C.
3 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Bridgeport Lawyer's 'Deficient Performance' Leads Judge to Vacate Conviction, Sentence

A Superior Court judge ordered a new trial and vacated the 14-year prison sentence of Lacelles Clue, convicted of a violent home burglary.
4 minute read

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