Today’s business owners are encountering greater expectations regarding financial transparency and compliance concerning changing government policies. In addition, businesses have to take care of their day-to-day responsibilities and juggle complex non-core tasks such as accounting, finance, and risk management. Thus,
Law Firm Marketing & Management
How to do Business Development in Your Trackies
Stay at home orders, the Delta strain, remote working and homeschooling. This is the strange reality in which most of us now live. At the time of writing, half of Australia is in lockdown once again. The office seems…
Mo Lilienthal: Humanized Social Media to Make Connections and Build Your Business
In this episode, Steve Fretzin and Mo Lilienthal discuss:
- Separating yourself from the others in your field.
- Developing content to humanize yourself.
- Getting started on social media.
- Ways to get introductions and connect with those you may not have access
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Global remedies for global transactions
Benefits of a coordinated approach to regulator engagement
Managing the merger control filings for global transactions can be an onerous exercise. A question lawyers managing such transactions frequently face is the extent to which different regulators around the world may…
Four Rules of LinkedIn Post Commenting by Katie Lipp
If you read my blog you know that I am a big fan of lawyer and entrepreneur Katie Lipp and her posts on LinkedIn. If you’re not following her yet you should.
We met on LinkedIn of course!
Here’s what…
Changes to FIRB Guidance Notes
Greater clarity for investors, but some issues remain unresolved
Major changes to Australia’s foreign investment laws — commonly known as the ‘FIRB regime’ — came into effect on 1 January 2021. At about the same time the Australian Government released…
You Don't Need to be a Gregarious Extrovert to be a Successful lawyer
I had little idea of what the practice of law was all about when I started law school. No one in my family was a lawyer. I had never stepped foot in a law firm. Most of my impressions were…
The Secondment Trap: A Costly Approach to Free Labor
In this piece from Ross Booher and Tim Haley of Latitude, which provides talent to law firms and legal departments for interim roles such as secondments, despite the generally favorable view of secondments, the reality often is quite different.…
ALSPs Can Calm the Churning E-Discovery Sea
Joseph Polizzotto, senior vice president, strategy & client services, and Danielle Noonan, associate vice president, legal solutions, with QuisLex, explore how developing deeper, more mature relationships with ALSPs allow in-house legal teams to build a “centralized hub of standard controls,…
“My new Volvo is a Mazda”: Part III of book review series on AI in law (250)
Will expert systems disrupt the legal value chain?
In the first installment of this book review series on AI (Post 232), I argued that AI will not reduce employment in the legal sector, and in fact, the extensive…