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Players On the Move

Entertainment Law & Finance Staff

A look at moves among attorneys, law firms, companies and other players in entertainment law.

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Players On the Move

ELF Staff

A look at moves among attorneys, law firms, companies and other players in entertainment law.

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3 Common Pitfalls Lawyers Face Without Legal Analytics Image

3 Common Pitfalls Lawyers Face Without Legal Analytics

Aria Nejad

Without the right tools, even the most skilled lawyers can fall victim to common pitfalls that can cripple their performance and success. This article discusses three of these pitfalls and how legal analytics can help lawyers stay ahead of the competition and provide the best counsel to their clients.

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Players On the Move Image

Players On the Move

ELF Staff

A look at moves among attorneys, law firms, companies and other players in entertainment law.

Features

Rebounding from a Layoff or Just Want to Build Your Confidence and Profile? Image

Rebounding from a Layoff or Just Want to Build Your Confidence and Profile?

Anne E. Collier and Sameena Safdar Kluck

Law firms, along with many others, seem to have transitioned from the challenges associated with the Great Resignation to wondering whether they overhired. Some lawyers will be the victims of a layoff. Victims? And that's the problem. If you've ever been laid off, downsized, made redundant, or any other of the euphemisms for being fired, it can feel terrible.

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Will Other States Follow NY's Lead on Requiring Cybersecurity CLE? Image

Will Other States Follow NY's Lead on Requiring Cybersecurity CLE?

Cassandre Coyer

New York has become the first state to add a requirement mandating that lawyers take legal education courses in cybersecurity, privacy and data protection. As cyberthreats will likely continue to both grow and evolve in sophistication, attorneys expect this requirement to be only a first step, with more states likely to soon follow.

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Hallmarks of Highly Successful Coaching Programs

Debra Baker

How well does your attorney coaching program stack up? Here are six pillars to self-assess whether your informal or formal business development coaching and training programs are working.

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Tips for Building Authentic Referral Relationships

Meranda Vieyra

While many attorneys know referral partners are an integral piece of their career, they don't take the time to build authentic referral relationships. To their current and future detriment, they don't make quality referral relationships a priority.

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Is Sales Enablement The Next Big Thing In Legal Services? Image

Is Sales Enablement The Next Big Thing In Legal Services?

Eric Dewey

Law firms can look to a growing trend, however, among their corporate brethren as a model to solve the business development training challenge. It's called Sales Enablement.

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In a Year of the Great Resignation, Corporations Need to Prepare for the Great Investigation Image

In a Year of the Great Resignation, Corporations Need to Prepare for the Great Investigation

Veeral Gosalia

Even before this Great Resignation movement, corporations across the globe were reporting increases in suspicious activity, data leakage, IP theft and other data risks stemming from departing employees and remote workers. And now, with more employees having exited and the Great Resignation seeming to accelerate further, existing data and risk implications are likely to be compounded.

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