Features
Debra Forman
Women lawyers will develop their practice and client development skills more effectively if they are mentored and championed by other women lawyers. Here's why.
Jennifer Bluestein
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Bradford D. Kaufman
This article discusses the best practices to intertwine competency models with career-focused mentoring programs. The authors believe aligning these two structures offers the best way to develop and retain legal talent.
Features
David R. Maurer
The point of this article is not to determine exactly who should run a law firm, but to explore some factors worth considering when contemplating the most effective and efficient form of law firm leadership.
ALM Staff
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Law Journal Newsletters
Who's doing what; who's going where.
Michael Lear-Olimpi
e-Commerce in the retail sector is up again for the second time this year, with the latest jump in the second quarter, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's survey of quarterly retail commerce.
Features
ALM Staff
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Law Journal Newsletters
The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) has made digital privacy and online children's safety the center of its 2012-13 agenda, as the new NAAG president, Maryland attorney general Douglas Gansler, made clear in a statement in June, in announcing the "Privacy in the Digital Age" initiative.
ALM Staff
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Law Journal Newsletters
Highlights of the latest franchising news from around the country.
Features
Stanley P. Jaskiewicz
How many practicing lawyers today (at least those over the age of 40) studied metadata and data security in law school? How many today can discuss the ethical aspects of those issues? Those skills, and more, are required to practice law, according to resolutions passed in early August by the ABA House of Delegates.
Features
Cynthia M. Klaus
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Susan E. Tegt
Highlights of the latest franchising cases from around the country.
Kendal Tyre
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Diana Vilmenay-Hammond
Recent flurries of activity in Africa's franchisor sector indicate that franchisors continue to see Africa as an increasingly attractive market for expanding their brands. However, further developments in the protection of an investor's intellectual property will be vital for continued foreign investment on the continent.
