LJN Newsletters

  • The Power of Storytelling in Your Legal Practice

    So the question arises, how do attorneys when giving speeches and business presentations connect with their audience without losing themselves in legal-speak? Here are the answers.

    April 28, 2008Paramjit L. Mahli

  • Real Property Law

    Analysis of recent rulings.

    April 28, 2008ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

  • Media & Communications Corner: A Profile of Jennifer Bluestein, Director of Professional Development, Baker & McKenzie LLP, Chicago

    When Baker & McKenzie LLP, Chicago, decided to create a new position to elevate professional development to a new level within the firm's largest U.S. office, Jennifer Bluestein answered the call. Since then, the firm's PD program has built a vibrant and fast-paced momentum that captures the attention of internal and external audiences, from the firm's lawyers to its clients and recruits.

    April 28, 2008Pamela Ulijasz

  • Landlord & Tenant

    Commentary on a recent case.

    April 28, 2008ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

  • Eminent Domain Law

    A recent important case.

    April 28, 2008ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

  • The Pheromone of Client Service

    Statements like, 'We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding levels of client service' sound great. They are the Pavlovian pablum we whip out when we meet new clients, promote ourselves on our Web sites, write the openings of our RFPs, and attract laterals. The problem is, they're just not true.

    April 28, 2008David H. Freeman

  • Index

    Everything contained in this issue, in an easy-to-read format.

    April 28, 2008ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

  • The Cultural Calculus of Competitive Advantage

    Mapping and measuring a firm's culture and core competencies is undoubtedly an exhaustive process with numerous stages of analysis. Done correctly, it will likely challenge many of the firm's longest held beliefs and assumptions. For those willing to undergo this rigorous analysis, the result will be a strategic framework that identifies the sources of its competitive advantages and enables the firm's management to focus its efforts on manufacturing and perpetuating the cultural attributes that will sustain the core competencies of the firm.

    April 28, 2008Eric Dewey

  • Compensation for Condemnation of Temporary Easements

    When the state condemns a temporary easement that encumbers the frontage of a vacant parcel, but uses the easement for only a fraction of the easement's total duration, how should the landowner's compensation be computed? In McCurdy v. State, the Court of Appeals concluded that landowner was entitled to consequential damages for harm to the interior land not encumbered by the easement, but only for the period when the state's use of the easement obstructed landowner's access to the interior of the parcel.

    April 28, 2008Stewart E. Sterk