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Women Lawyers Must Also 'Lean In'
March 27, 2014
Explaining how women in law firms can forge on to meet their professional goals.
Accounting Changes Could Cost Legal Industry Billions
March 27, 2014
While law firms are increasingly modeling their business practices after their clients', one they have not been interested in mimicking is the accrual method of accounting. But it may be coming.
At the Intersection: Game Your Way to Longer Life
March 27, 2014
A look at "personal gamification" ' how you can create stronger personal motivation and resiliency by drawing on some basic game principles.
Five Ways to Improve Lateral Recruitment
March 27, 2014
Here are five ideas that law firm leaders can embrace to improve their own success rate at finding and integrating laterals into their firms.
Preparing for the Affordable Care Act Employer Mandate
March 27, 2014
As of Jan. 1, 2015, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act begins to impose certain health coverage requirements on employers who have at least 50 employees. Even though its implications are almost a year away, it is not too soon for employers to prepare for the Employer Mandate. Employers would be wise to figure out if the mandate applies to them, understand the potential penalties that can be imposed on them and, taking into account all of the various considerations, decide if they want to pay or play.
<i>BREAKING NEWS:</i> Ex-Dewey Leaders Charged With Fraud, Theft
March 06, 2014
Following a nearly two-year investigation that began as Dewey &amp; LeBoeuf spiraled toward death, its former chairman, Steven Davis; its former executive director, Stephen DiCarmine; and its ex-chief financial officer, Joel Sanders, were accused on March 6 of "concocting and overseeing a massive effort to cook the books" at the firm.
Accounting Changes Could Cost Legal Industry Billions
February 28, 2014
While law firms are increasingly modeling their business practices after their clients', one they have not been interested in mimicking is the accrual method of accounting.
Managing Partners and 'Gamification'
February 28, 2014
Many managing partners tell us they are struggling to get their arms around new tools and techniques for driving more efficiency and cost-effectiveness into legal service delivery. Firms are seeing more and more RFPs in which clients make increasingly draconian demands for better management and control of legal work. AFAs (alternative fee arrangements) are reshaping not just pricing and profitability, but the whole way in which matters are staffed and billed.
Preparing for the Affordable Care Act Employer Mandate
February 28, 2014
As of Jan. 1, 2015, the ACA begins to impose certain health coverage requirements on employers who have at least 50 employees. Even though its implications are almost a year away, it is not too soon for employers to prepare for the Employer Mandate. Employers would be wise to figure out if the mandate applies to them, understand the potential penalties that can be imposed on them and, taking into account all of the various considerations, decide if they want to pay or play.
White House Uploads U.S. Cybersecurity Framework
February 28, 2014
President Barack Obama's administration on Feb. 12 released its much-anticipated voluntary cybersecurity framework, giving U.S. companies a common handbook on how they can try to fend off hackers.

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    At the Oscars in March, Best Actress winner Frances McDormand made “inclusion rider” go viral. But Kalpana Kotagal, a partner at Cohen Milstein Sellers &amp; Toll had already worked for months to write the language for such provisions. Kotagal was developing legal language for contract provisions that Hollywood's elite could use to require studios and other partners to employ diverse workers on set.
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