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Legaltech News

From Baker McKenzie to LexFusion: Why Casey Flaherty Is Betting on Legal Tech Curation

LexFusion's chief strategy officer Casey Flaherty reveals why he left Big Law and how legal tech's lack of interoperability isn't its only major issue.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

New Opioid Lawsuits Target McKinsey for Its Role as Consultant to Drug Companies

The global consulting firm asked the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation to transfer all the lawsuits in New York, where it has headquarters. Dozens of plaintiffs opposed that request this week.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

Harvard Law's John Coates, Now at SEC, Reveals Consulting Income, Clients

The financial disclosure that John Coates filed also offered a rare public peek into the costs of corporate compliance monitors. He had been serving as the independent monitor for the U.S. Justice Department in the prosecution of Boston-based State Street Corp.
6 minute read

The Recorder

Focused on 'Delivering Efficiencies' With Hybrid Model, Manatt Saw Revenue, Profits Grow in 2020

"Even when courthouses were closed, we continued to operate at a very high level," managing partner Donna Wilson said.
5 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Preparing to Face Jurors After a Tumultuous Year: 5 Questions With a Jury Consultant

"I believe it's a mistake to believe politics are determinative in a jury trial," said Koch, who's worked in the District of Columbia and several states, including Georgia, Maryland, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
7 minute read

The American Lawyer

Outsourcing Likely to Grow in Post-COVID Law Firm

A recent survey from HBR Consulting found that 62% of firms expect to make significant changes to workplace strategy.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

The Keys to Meaningful Legal Marketing Content

A deep understanding of both your audience and the medium you are using to communicate your message is the difference between your marketing content being seen as meaningful and not being seen at all, says Aron Solomon, the senior digital strategist for NextLevel.com and an adjunct professor of business management at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

COVID-19 Fears and the Juror Experience During This Time

Measures to address COVID safety while resuming jury trials will evolve based on what the courts and litigants learn in the early days, and on the surge and decrease of COVID rates in different venues.
8 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Out of Mud, Lotus Blossoms Grow: Virtual Voir Dire Is Not So Bad

During the era of COVID-19, trial lawyers and jury consultants who are accustomed to gathering pretrial intelligence at live mock trials are less able to recruit and assemble mock jurors for such exercises. But there is another viable option: virtual mock trials.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

DOJ Names New Chief for Team Policing Foreign Influence in US

Career prosecutor and former Goodwin Procter associate Jennifer Kennedy Gellie succeeds Brandon Van Grack, a longtime prosecutor who served on the Robert Mueller III special counsel team. The head of the DOJ's national security division said "Van Grack was central to the department's strengthened focus on combating malign foreign influence through the use of FARA and other tools."
6 minute read

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