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[Podcast] Mentorship, Growth & Opportunity: Experiences from the 2025 Summer Associate Program

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On this special Ropes & Gray podcast, co-hiring partner for the firm and co-managing partner of the firm’s Boston office, Jeff Katz, sits down with three members of the 2025 Summer Associate Program: Ben Haward (Harvard...more

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Law Firms Are Bleeding Talent Because They Refuse to Build Leaders

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Law firms have a leadership crisis. Not a shortage of managing partners or practice group heads, but a fundamental inability to develop actual leaders from within their ranks. The traditional model of promoting the best...more

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Can’t Find Good Talent? You’re The Problem, It’s You.

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Hiring in today’s legal market feels like trying to find a unicorn in a thunderstorm. The great ones aren’t applying. The good ones ghost you. The ones who do come through the door often aren’t a fit....more

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Law Firms Must Get “Unreasonable” To Win The Talent Wars

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As an adjunct legal professor, I’m fortunate to get to spend time with law students. They are smart, hardworking, and ready to make valuable contributions to the legal profession. And they’re different from lawyers of...more

Baker Donelson

Baker's Dozen: What Does Leaving a Legacy Mean to You?

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What does it mean to leave a legacy? For some, it’s about mentorship and creating opportunities for those who follow. For others, it’s about building relationships, shaping a culture of inclusion, or making a lasting impact...more

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Diversity Matters Newsletter Summer 2024 Edition

“Nothing worth having comes easy.” -President Theodore Roosevelt Working towards real diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace should not be easy. In fact, it should be an uncomfortable, arduous journey where...more

JD Supra Perspectives

Leadership and Beyond: Board Service as a Catalyst for Lawyer Development

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Board service provides a unique avenue for lawyers to expand their professional horizons. Lana Manganiello explains how....more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Introducing Gen Z: Understanding the New Generation of Lawyers and How Their Perspective Could Shift Workplace Norms

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On today’s episode, Rachel Moseson Dikovics, Amanda K. Cipriano, Claire Dronzek, and Lauren Russell discuss Gen Z’s perspective of young lawyers on issues such as work-life balance, organizational values, and mentorship. They...more

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CMO Series EP94 - Katie Munroe of Zuckerman Spaeder on Creating a Culture of Client Service Straight out of the Gate

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By shifting the business development mindset from asking for work to offering assistance with problem-solving, you will not only deepen relationships, but improve your likelihood of generating new business. Whether a new...more

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Three Moves to Help Your Law Firm Thrive in 2023

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According to most economists, we’re not in a recession, at least right now. However, the only certainty appears to be uncertainty. How will law firms achieve growth in an unstable environment? We’ve reviewed two leading...more

JD Supra Perspectives

Three Elements for Shaping a Successful Law Firm Virtual Retreat

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Jill Huse with a look at the three aspects you need to consider when planning your firm's virtual retreat right now....more

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Setting Boundaries: An Essential Skill For Lawyers

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Lawyers' mental health, substance abuse and personal well-being continue to be prevalent topics of discussion moving into the new year. One theory as to why lawyer well-being seems to be at an all-time low is that behavior...more

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Be Open to Other Perspectives

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JW Way Fundamental #13: Embrace Diversity. "Celebrate our differences. Be aware of and address implicit bias. Be open to learning from others, regardless of their background or role. Be mindful that we make better decisions...more

Proskauer - Proskauer For Good

The Best Time to Start Doing Pro Bono Work? Your First Day.

Every year around this time, my colleague Erin Meyer and I can be found going through and carefully selecting pro bono opportunities for Proskauer’s incoming first-year associates. Each of them will be assigned a pro bono...more

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Best Practices for Building a Better Meeting

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It’s the “chicken or the egg” conundrum of the working world: Are meetings awful because we hate them, or do we hate meetings because they are awful? When Harvard Business Review surveyed 182 managers in a range of...more

Stange Law Firm, PC

Does Your Law Firm Have A Case Of "The Slows?"

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During the Civil War, President Lincoln was frustrated with the performance of General George McClellan. One of his chief complaints with General McClellan, as he put it, was that he had a case of “the slows.” Instead of...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Immediate Strategies for Responding to the #MeToo Movement and Harassment in the Workplace

As a result of troubling personal accounts of sexual harassment that have permeated coverage on national media outlets and our social media accounts during the past few months, employers may appropriately question whether...more

Akerman LLP

Episode 24: EEOC Commissioner Chai Feldblum Part I: Employers' "Superstar Harassment" Problem

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Amidst seemingly endless sexual harassment headlines, Matt Steinberg welcomes EEOC Commissioner, Chai Feldblum, to discuss the "Superstar Harasser" epidemic. The discussion will explore what companies can do to prevent and...more

LawVision

Is Your Culture Putting Your Firm At Risk?

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While I acknowledge the vital role that culture plays with respect to defining each law firm’s working environment, creating expected behaviors, and establishing a “glue” among the lawyers, I am increasingly seeing law firms...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Compliance Into the Weeds-Episode 42, the Uber Edition

In this episode, Matt Kelly and I take a deep dive into the corporate governance fiasco which is Uber. We consider the revelations in the failures of corporate governance, culture and internal controls at the organization....more

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10 Questions That Need Answers for a Successful 2017 (and Beyond)

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At about this time last year, I wrote a blog about 10 Projects That Can Produce Big Results in 2016. My goal was to get each reader’s firm to focus on one signature project from a “menu” of options that would have a positive...more

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Law Firm Talent Retention: Culture Matters

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Millennials, Gen-Xers, Baby Boomers, Silent Generation, etc. Much has been written and I dare say speculated about why things are not working well between the generations. This includes such generic statements such as,...more

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Are You Focusing Too Much On Your Diversity Program?

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Diversity is a good thing. Actually it’s a great thing. It’s good for business in many ways. But the focus on diversity in the legal industry has become, for the most part, an exercise too tied to metrics and too formalized...more

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What’s Wrong with Perfect? In Today’s Changing Environment, A Lot

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Perfectionism is a tendency with which many of us have an intimate familiarity. In our personal lives, we acknowledge that demanding perfection from those around us, such as our spouses or children, is detrimental and can...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Dreamboat Annie and Fostering a Culture of Compliance

Today I want to celebrate one of most impressive jumps from indie band status from the 1970s as we honor the 40th anniversary of the Heart album Dreamboat Annie, which was released in February, 1976. Heart is still comprised...more

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