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Where the Smartest People in Talent Management Share Ideas, Trends, and Best Practices to Improve the Profession
Now is the Time for Law Firms to Maximize their C-Suite
October 14, 2020
By Christina Herrmann – There exist critical moments in time, which compel progress. Now is one such moment for the legal industry. Law firms, heavily dependent on the solvency of their clients, must adjust to a client base severely depleted from the global pandemic. These adjustments will require business savvy, ingenuity, and specialized talents, all
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Lawyers on the Rise: Three Ways to Recruit Resilience
December 26, 2017
By Neha Sampat – (Originally published in Law Practice Today on August 14, 2017.) Grit. Fortitude in the face of struggle. Elasticity that allows a person to be stretched to an uncomfortable limit and then bounce back swiftly and completely, often with forward trajectory. We hear a lot about resilience these days, with Sheryl Sandberg
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Knowing Who’s Who in the Job Search Process
August 18, 2017
By Valerie Fontaine – Job seekers in the legal marketplace find a myriad of online and in-person resources of varying uses and value. Do-it-yourselfers might stick to Internet options such as social media, job boards, and employer listings with great success; others seeking the more human touch might reach out to one or more of the
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Will Diversity Tech (Finally) Transform the Future Workplace?
July 31, 2017
By Michelle Silverthorn — (Originally published on June 6, 2017 on the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism’s 2Civility website.) Last week I wrote about starting a new diversity and inclusion initiative from scratch. I briefly mentioned the buzziest new term in diversity and inclusion: diversity tech. Diversity tech is what happens when some of the smartest start-up minds
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How Can We End the “Pinkwashing” of Biglaw?
July 16, 2017
By Gemma L. Descoteaux — A quick perusal of the websites for the Am Law 200 law firms shows that big firms are dedicated to the advancement of women. They sponsor women’s events, host gender equality initiatives, and hold large women’s conferences. Yet, when you look behind the website fluff—what I call the “pinkwashing” of
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THE MANSFIELD RULE: Making Leadership More Than a Man’s Field
May 31, 2017
By Patricia K. Gillette — “What if we consider that it is not the women, but the system that needs to be fixed?” Whatever we are doing in law firms to increase gender diversity in positions of economic and institutional power is not working. How do we know that? Simply look at the statistics. The number of
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Confident, Powerful, Effective Networking: An Interview with Kelly Hoey
May 3, 2017
By Stacey Schwartz, Esq., Executive & Career Coach — Raise your hand if you love to network. So how many hands do you see? Anyone? Bueller? Now raise your hand if you like to help people. Raise your hand if you like to share what you know. Raise your hand if you like to support your friends
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The End of Work Life Balance
January 26, 2017
By Eva Davis, Co-Chair Private Equity, Winston & Strawn — Blog posts, women’s conferences, mentoring programs, and lifestyle and career counseling tips tout the many ways to attain “work-life” balance. “Balance” is an equal distribution of weight that allows something to remain upright and steady. “Work-life-balance” is a condition in which different elements of “work”
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How Law Firms Can Move Beyond Diversity Plan Hype
December 20, 2016
By Caren Ulrich Stacy — Originally published by Law.com and The American Lawyer, December 6, 2016 — Law firms and companies never miss an opportunity to issue a press release about their newest and glossiest plan designed to boost diversity and inclusion. A quick search on Google reveals more than three dozen of these announcements
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Innovation — You’re doing that too, huh?
December 5, 2016
By Steve Gluckman – There’s been a lot of discussion in law firms recently around the increasing urgency to innovate. If you’ve been in the industry for more than a few minutes, you know that firms are facing increasing competition and are looking to improve efficiency, while at the same time, facing the challenge of
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