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In a cultural moment that shows little tolerance for neutral players beholden only to the interests of their clients, law leaders face uncomfortable conflicts and big decisions about what it means to be a moral actor in 2021. In the past year, and especially in the past few weeks, we've seen law firms lining up to 

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...

In reading the recent story of Australian law firm

As the legal industry closes out a month dedicated to celebrating the contributions of Black attorneys, we want to highlight three organizations Page 2 has been privileged to work with and learn from. And it is with more than a little hometown pride that we note they all have Chicago roots!