What #MeToo Means to In-house Counsel

16 April, 2018

New sexual harassment regulations are cropping up around the country. How can you ensure compliance? The #MeToo Movement isn’t stopping with Hollywood and headlines. It’s seeping into legislation — and from there into the workloads of in-house counsel. In the first month of 2018, state and federal...

Balancing the Life of the Adversarial Lawyer

28 March, 2018

Keys for fighting the soul-sucking zero-sum pessimism at the center of modern legal practice.   Attorneys are adversarial. Their clients count on it. And it doesn’t stay in the courtroom. Attorneys are more prone than other professionals to see their lives as a zero-sum game, where all oth...

Top Legal Podcasts

21 March, 2018

Love our Top Legal Podcasts? You might love our Legal Case Management Software too! —————————————————————————————— With the growing popularity of podcasts, an entire genre of law-related podcasts has sprung up to provide entertainment, information, and education in the area of law. Podcasts h...

Real Talk About Real-time Messaging

14 March, 2018

Real-time messaging is standard practice in any school, friendship, or workplace. But the science is grim. Strained relationships. Heightened anxiety. Flagging productivity. Sleepless nights. Is our message-addiction wrecking our lives? And if so, can we even imagine an alternative? The problems o...

How to Write a Kick-Ass Memo

1 March, 2018

You can’t turn on the news this week without hearing some kind of panic over memos. We’re told there’s a full-fledged memo war afoot in D.C. (insert joke about weapons loaded with bullet-points here). Well, we’re buying into the memo-hype. Not for political reasons, but because we know there’s not...

Want to Humanize your Clients? Try ‘Rebellious Lawyering’

15 February, 2018

As I write, the news warns of another looming government shutdown. One key conundrum: how this country will treat its “Dreamers” — undocumented people who were brought to the United States as kids. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which allowed nearly 700,000 people to a...