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The Alcohol & Harassment Culture of Big Law: Is Bottom Line Health More Important Than The Lawyers’ Wellbeing?

BigLaw, UK Law /
Drinks

[vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1482333351514{background-image: url(http://www.lawfuel.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/hero-section-with-white-content-3481.jpg?id=100660) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column][vc_single_image source=”featured_image” img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] If nothing else, the #Metoo movement has focused attention on sexual harassment in the legal profession at almost every level – including the UK’s recent enquiry that heard about the drink-fueled culture leading to a ‘surge’ in sexual misconduct. The

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A Tool That Can Help Law Firms Turn the Tables on In-House Counsel Set To Fire Them

BigLaw, Legal AI /
law firm staff cutbacks - law job cuts

John Bowie* So what is the main reason for law firms being fired by in-house counsel? According to in-house lawyers (in the US, at least), the main reason is that the firms fail to provide value. The firms themselves, meanwhile, will say that the reason is budgetary – cost overruns and maybe the occasional lack

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Why Lawyers Need to Improve Their Social & Digital Content

BigLaw, Law Firm Marketing /
content marketing for lawyers

Greentarget – For nearly a decade, the State of Digital & Content Marketing Survey has focused on the information consumption attitudes, behaviors and tendencies of in-house counsel, paired with practical guidance for law firms who continually compete for greater share of voice among this audience. To help firm marketers in that effort, in an era

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Technology Giveth, and Taketh Away: Why the Proper Management of Technology is Critical in Medical Settings

BigLaw, Opinion, Sponsored Post /
Medical

Sponsored Content Healthcare has a mixed relationship with technology. Many industry influencers and spokespeople like to wax lyrical about the transformative nature of technology when applied to healthcare settings – with Aubrey de Grey, co-founder of the SENS Research Foundation, going so far as to say that the first human to live to over 1,000

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FARA – A New Era?

BigLaw /
Fara bakermckenzie

Baker & McKenzie – On 28 June 2018, Baker McKenzie hosted a breakfast and briefing in the Washington, DC Office on the Foreign Agents Registration Act. The event provided a forum to discuss legal and policy issues relating to increased FARA registrations and a possible new era in FARA enforcement by the US Department of

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California’s GDPR – Could Be Trouble For Companies Selling Personal Data

BigLaw /
Bigdata

Nixon Peabody –  Just a month after the European Union’s notoriously strict General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect, California followed suit with a landmark law of its own: the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018. Authored by democrats Senator Bob Hertzberg and Assemblyman Ed Chau, AB 375 passed unanimously in both chambers of

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