This year’s sudden increase in the number of employees working from home has had a dramatic impact. Firms have scrambled to get their employees the hardware and software they need…
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Transforming Women’s Leadership in the Law Global Report 2020
Gender diversity in law firms positively impacts law firm success, research shows, with gender diverse teams in law firms achieving 10% higher client spend.
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Managing Your Legal Risk Portfolio: Two-Step Process to Upside Potential
It seems that everyone in the legal market has been hearing commentary on the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s how to manage the risks.
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How to Preserve D&I Progress During Economic Downturns
The public health crisis has resulted in unprecedented job loss since March, and organisations need to careful that their diversity and inclusion (D&I) progress doesn’t falter.
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State of US Corporate Law Departments Report: Adapting to 2020
Corporate law departments are under heavy pressure on many fronts, and the current pandemic crisis is only going to exacerbate those pressures.
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Securing Your Practice’s Future: Helping Your Law Firm’s Practice Areas Evolve
The rapid changes in the legal market over the past month due to the pandemic are forcing law firms to make changes faster than any of us have ever thought necessary.
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Monitoring Client Industries & Planning for the Pandemic Aftershock
Amid the fast-paced consequences of this global COVID-19 pandemic, it is already a given that every law firm must now adapt to dramatic and rapidly changing circumstances.
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Your Business Professional Team is Critical to Your Firm’s Viability
In recent weeks, the headlines say it all. Law firms are doing everything possible to minimise the economic downturn and the ongoing financial woes created by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Law Firm Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis: Current Actions & Future Challenges
Over the past few weeks, the legal industry, like the rest of the economy, has struggled with how to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Securing Your Practice’s Future: Making the Pieces Fit Together
Last year was one of substantial change for many small law firms as they continued to develop and refine their skills, especially in regard to how they run their businesses, not just how they practice law.
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