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While spring has brought the promise of widespread vaccination, the light at the end of the tunnel is still a long way off for many parents working in your law firm. Whether their children have been able to attend school in person or had to learn remotely, the end of the school year is on the horizon, and that means the end of most structured activity outside the few camps with the space to operate in person. That means employees of your firm will continue to...

For more than a year, law firm leaders have been working under short-term, emergent conditions: providing all-hands-on-deck client service and forecasting how the industries they serve will be impacted by current economic conditions and constraints. In other words, they have been focused on survival, with no bandwidth left to think about the longer term.

In some ways, this intensive focus on shoring up client relationships has paid...

According to MyCase data, over 80% of law firms surveyed continue to work remotely at least some of the time. For many...

Diversifying corporate boards and law firm management committees is essential to success in a fast-changing marketplace. But individual leaders and key executives often have their own personal groups of advisors to whom they turn for advice on key decisions. How can you make sure your sounding board isn’t just an echo chamber? The first international law requiring public companies to meet a minimum threshold for gender diversity on their board was passed in 2003. The Norwegian...

By Steven Johnson How do good ideas happen, and what can we do to help people have more of them? Steven Johnson examines how the innovations that changed the world actually happened, and reveals the pattern of behavior that often underlies them in his book “Where Good Ideas Come From”:

1. The Adjacent Possible: “Good ideas are not conjured out of thin air; they are built out of a collection of existing parts, the composition of which expands...