Thought leadership boils down to just these two words
Lawyers Beware: There Could Be Serious Ethics Issues With The New AI Browsers
How to Rank in the Age of AI Search: On Record PR
Six ways your thought leadership can help you land speaking opportunities
CMO Series Live Special: The AI Revolution and What it Means for CMOs
What Is Ambient AI and Why Does It Matter to Lawyers & Legal Professionals?
Here are four ways to convert webinars into articles people will actually read
6 Takeaways | From Tension to Teamwork: Real Strategies for Legal Collaboration
Industry jargon is your clients' and referral sources' love language
Are you using thought leadership as "after hours" client advocacy?
Litigation Communications Strategies for High-Stakes Cases: On Record PR
Consider angles when mapping out your thought leadership strategy, not just topics
Early Returns Podcast - Oliver Roberts: AI and the Law, and an Education
Here are 4 under-the-radar sources of thought leadership inspiration at conferences
What Law Firm Clients Really Want: Relationships, Reputation, and Responsiveness - On Record PR
The lesson 2,886 newspapers can teach law firms about thought leadership
Redefining Value: What Today’s Legal Buyers Want - On Record PR
There Is No Right Path
You're going to want your thought leadership to pack this 1-2-3 punch if you want it to be read
When DE&I Are Under Attack: On Record PR
Most of the headlines about AI misuse in legal filings involve non-existent cases hallucinated by AI systems used in brief writing without cite checking. Attorneys relying on generative AI systems have been sanctioned after...more
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
At Society 54, we believe strategy shouldn't be confined to a binder or pulled out for review only once a year. It should be actionable, dynamic, and directly tied to real-time insights into your firm's operations. In today's...more
Let me tell you a truth that will make every partner at your firm uncomfortable: if you don't have a book of business, you don't have a career. You have a job. And jobs disappear. I've watched brilliant lawyers get shown the...more
In this video, Wayne Pollock (Founder of Copo Strategies and the Law Firm Editorial Service) explains six ways that thought leadership can help attorneys secure speaking engagements. 1. It gets them exposure to event...more
What is ambient AI, and why does it matter to lawyers, law firms, and legal marketing and business development professionals? In this episode of Legal Marketing Minutes, I define ambient AI in clear terms and explain how...more
Several colleagues were recently interviewing for a role as the head of Practice Group Management at a law firm. Some came from firms that I would describe as having empowered their practice group leaders—firms that were, in...more
Orrick’s Zac Padgett sat down with lawyer-turned-consultant R.C. Rondero De Mosier to discuss GenAI adoption in the legal field and how lawyers can unlock the value of it. Learn about: Aligning incentives to drive AI...more
On May 22, 2025, Brodie Erwin (Raleigh litigator) and Colleen Bear (Senior Manager Talent Management and Coach) co-hosted Kilpatrick’s bi-monthly virtual roundtable discussion with in-house counsel, Dynamic Thinking for an...more
In the high-stakes convergence of business, technology and law, creative burnout isn’t just an individual challenge—it’s a systemic risk. The relentless push for efficiency, digital acceleration and hyperspecialization can...more
I had coffee with a managing partner last week who made an observation that stuck with me. He said he could predict which attorneys in his firm would become rainmakers by watching how they treated the receptionist, the...more
In an era where relationships drive business, law firms are increasingly recognizing the strategic value of alumni programs, not just as a goodwill gesture, but as a powerful engine for growth, brand loyalty, and revenue...more
Lawyers are getting sanctioned for AI-generated fiction masquerading as legal research. The most infamous case, Mata v. Avianca in New York federal court, saw attorneys submit a brief containing six completely fictional...more
One of the more valuable (and perhaps underrated) features of compliance and ethics conferences is the opportunity they create for real-time benchmarking. ...more
As an attorney, I often focus on the immediate task at hand – reviewing the revised document from opposing counsel, the brief due next week, the client meeting tomorrow, or the upcoming deposition. Over time I’ve learned that...more
In this video, Wayne Pollock (Founder of Copo Strategies and the Law Firm Editorial Service) explains how attorneys endear themselves to their clients and referral sources when they use their industry jargon in content...more
I almost didn’t show up. After a long international road trip, van trouble, and a disrupted routine, the temptation was real: skip the live presentation. Or mail it in. Just this once....more
Introduction: Beyond the Prompt Era - The legal profession is undergoing a profound shift. For decades, the integration of computing in law was incremental—word processors, databases, legal research platforms....more
Your corporate law firm’s website dominates Google for relevant terms like “securities litigation attorney,” but when a General Counsel asks AI for whistleblower guidance, your decades of expertise might as well be invisible....more
Your law firm likely aspires to be considered the leading authority in your practice area. The challenge is that with so many people competing for this recognition, it can take time to stand out from the crowd. ...more
It is common in any organization to focus on leadership at the top and on performance at the front lines. But what happens to those in the middle? While focusing on leadership at the top is important, there is something to be...more
The rise of legal AI has sparked a familiar fear: that our hard-won expertise might be absorbed into machines. That lawyers will be off-loaded—our reasoning encoded, commodified, and reduced to prompts. That we’ll be...more
In this video, Wayne Pollock (Founder of Copo Strategies and the Law Firm Editorial Service) explains the benefits of lawyers using thought leadership as "after hours" client advocacy. == Learn more about Wayne Pollock:...more
The legal profession is stuck in the past. Most law firms still operate like they did fifty years ago. Senior lawyers assign tasks. Junior lawyers do the tasks. This is the old way....more
In today's rapidly evolving legal landscape, artificial intelligence is democratizing execution across the profession. As routine tasks become automated, the qualities that differentiate exceptional legal professionals are...more