Players On the Move
A look at moves among attorneys, law firms, companies and other players in entertainment law.
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Virtual Snooping
Karen Ellis
The modern-day snoop is all too often someone you know. If this consideration doesn't leave you paranoid and looking over your shoulder, it should.
Law Departments and Clients Face Budgetary Concerns in 2017
Steve Kovalan
Law departments are not being asked to do more with less? Instead, they are being asked to do more with more (though sometimes their budget increases are not keeping up with their new responsibilities).
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Most Firms Feel Assured in Cybersecurity Abilities, But Is That False Confidence?
Ricci Dipshan
Law firms are increasingly confident in their cybersecurity capabilities, despite many falling short of adequate breach response preparation.
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Mastering the Art of Self-Promotion
Carol Morganstern
Hard work alone will not propel your career forward to its highest possible level; you are going to need to be savvy at the art of self-promotion. This includes going outside of your firm to get new clients and letting those inside your firm know about your accomplishments to propel you up the corporate ladder.
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The Power of Monitoring for Recovering Lost Revenue
Tom Baldwin
Realization has hit an all-time low of 83%, plunging from 93% just a decade ago. Most firms are building pricing groups as the place to start addressing this pain. This is certainly a good starting point, but if your firm is pricing and not monitoring, you've actually got a problem.
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AI and the Law: The Paradigm Shift Hits the Fan
Pamela Woldow
In its astonishing "Free the Law" project, Harvard has teamed up with a California start-up called Ravel Law to digitize every state, federal, territorial and tribal judicial decision since colonial times by feeding over 40 million pages physically cut from the books shelved in the Harvard Law Library into a high-speed digital scanner.
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True Partnerships Reward Partner-Like Behavior
Steven J. Harper
A true partnership requires a compensation structure that rewards partner-like behavior — collegiality, mentoring, expansion and transition of client relationships to fellow partners, and a consensus to pursue long-term strategies promoting institutional stability rather than maximizing short-term profit metrics.
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Mastering the Art of Self-Promotion
Carol Morganstern
Self-promotion makes many people uncomfortable and unsure. However, to really maximize your hard work as a lawyer, you need to let the world know about your successes — and nobody can do it all for you.
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Elite Law Firms Increasingly Suing Clients to Collect Fees
Christine Simmons
In an era when demand for legal services is softening, the country's largest firms are increasingly going to court and arbitration against their former clients to collect fees in what consultants say is the "new normal."
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Estate Planning for the Digital Afterlife
Patrice P. Jean
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Vanessa Ann Woods
This article discusses the importance of accounting for digital assets in an estate plan, provides practical considerations for handling their disposition after death, and describes the current state of the law for the handling of digital assets after death.
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