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Digital Due Diligence: What Prospects and Referrals Really See When They Research Your Firm

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Here’s a reality check that might sting a little: the last thing a referred client does before contacting you isn’t pick up the phone—it’s fire up Google. That warm referral from your best client? It comes with a digital...more

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Balancing Technology and Tradition: AI in the Legal Sector

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The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in the legal sector is changing how law firms manage efficiency, client services, and overall operations. With new advancements in AI, legal professionals are navigating an...more

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Q&A With Anne Paape, Managing Director and Senior Fiduciary Counsel at Cresset

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The Spotlight had the pleasure of sitting down with Anne Paape, managing director and senior fiduciary counsel at Cresset and Cresset Trust Company, to talk about the historic transfer of wealth many countries are undergoing,...more

King & Spalding

SEC Proposes RIA Outsourcing Rule

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On October 26, the SEC proposed a new Advisers Act rule (the “Proposed Rule”) that would establish specific obligations for Registered Investment Advisers with respect to outsourcing of “Covered Functions”, as that term is...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Lawyer’s Advocacy in Arbitrations: No. 6 of the Top 10 Horrible, Terrible, No Good Mistakes Lawyers Make: Not Treating Your...

This post is a continuation of the Top 10 most horrible, terrible, no good, “bang your head against the door” mistakes that I have seen lawyers make before, during, and after arbitrations in which I served as the arbitrator....more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Lawyer’s Advocacy in Arbitrations: No. 3 of the Top 10 Horrible, Terrible, No Good Mistakes Lawyers Make

This post is a continuation of the Top 10 most horrible, terrible, no good, “bang your head against the door” mistakes that I have seen lawyers make before, during, and after arbitrations in which I served as the arbitrator....more

Vedder Price

OCIE Issues Risk Alert Relating to Investment Adviser Oversight of Supervised Persons with Disciplinary Histories

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On July 23, 2019, the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) issued a risk alert outlining its observations and recommendations following an examination initiative that focused on oversight practices...more

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Alternative Legal Service Providers and the Law Firm: Friend or Foe

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In 2017, Thomson Reuters, Georgetown Law Center for the Study of the Legal Profession, and the University of Oxford Said Business School partnered in a study on Alternative Legal Services Providers (ALSPs). They reported that...more

Mintz

PE Opportunity in Litigation Financing

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Litigation financing has quickly grown from a fledging concept into a robust industry. The concept is simple: in exchange for a share of any proceeds, a financing firm agrees to pay all or a portion of the plaintiff’s legal...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

FCPA Compliance Report-Episode 350, Linda Justice and Her Nancy Drew Approach

Linda Justice brings Nancy Drew to your side to fill all those knowledge gaps in your pursuit of clients. Using her technical background in corporate investigations, she brings experience to business development, strategic...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Social Media and Practice: Questions Attorneys Should Ask Now

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Social media users number in the billions. Facebook counts over 1.4 billion users, LinkedIn has 347 million members, Instagram has 300 million, Twitter has nearly 290 million, and YouTube reports more than a billion users....more

Burr & Forman

TN Ethics Opinion Approves Lawyers’ Cloud Storage of Client Data

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Tennessee has joined other states in formally approving lawyers’ cloud-storage of client-confidential data. The Board of Professional Responsibility (“BOPR”) held that lawyers ethically may use cloud storage for...more

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