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We are proud to celebrate that EIGHT Page 2 clients are listed on the Crain's 2019 Notable Gen-X Leaders in Law list:

Eric Greenfield, Shareholder, Polsinelli

Gary Hood, Shareholder, Polsinelli

Page 2 specializes in serving law firms and law firms only, so you can be sure that we take client confidentiality and attorney-client privilege seriously. Because we closely follow all state and federal rulings regarding privilege as it relates public relations and trial publicity, we were intrigued by a May 6 ruling in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New...

We’ve written in this space about how it’s harder than ever to issue a public apology that actually rings true for the public, and how a firm’s tone in communications on diversity speaks volumes on whether it actually sees the value in a more inclusive culture.

Both of these issues are part of a much larger cultural phenomenon...

When it comes to law firm diversity efforts, it may seem fairly obvious that the most important indicator of progress is the hard numbers: Are firms building more diverse teams, and is that diversity present throughout the hierarchy, from the managing partner level down through the associates? Of course it’s true that we can look to the stats to gauge success. The proof is (or, more accurately, will or will not be) in the pudding.

But on this (long, long) road, another more nuanced...

When companies first began to embrace social media platforms like Twitter about decade ago, they did so cautiously and in the same carefully crafted language they used in their other marketing materials. But because the tone of their communications didn’t match the tone of these platforms, the efforts mostly fell flat, ignored or sometimes even ridiculed for their stodginess in the form of “Who let Dad go on the internet?”

But as marketing departments have developed a more...