By Barbara W. Reece | LexisNexis Practical Guidance The constant risk of enterprise data security threats has been keeping in-house counsel on their toes for years now, but unfortunately GCs do not appear to be realizing any greater confidence in their organizational...
By Cameron Kinvig | LexisNexis Practical Guidance The global demand for renewable energy is expected to continue booming for the next two decades. The U.S. Energy Information Administration projects a nearly 50% increase in world energy usage by 2050, led by...
Jail and prison staff need a clear understanding of evolving law—including inmate health law and emerging COVID-19 policies. In a webinar hosted by the American Jail Association and sponsored by LexisNexis® , Professor Margo Schlanger, JD, shared important...
By Geoff Ivnik | Director of Marketing Data analytics has been a rising catchphrase across industries from professional baseball to managed healthcare for a decade or two. After a series of fits and starts, it now appears to have firmly established its footprint...
Reducing the risk of inmate litigation Jail and prison staff need a clear understanding of evolving law—including inmate civil rights, inmate health, and case law. In a 2021 webinar hosted by the American Jail Association and sponsored by LexisNexis®...
By Doug Stansfield | Sr. Director Product Management One of the important lessons that law firms learned amid the COVID-19 lockdowns of 2020 was the importance of an effective knowledge management strategy — and access to KM tools — in order to support...
By Benjamin C. Knuth | LexisNexis Subject Matter Advisor (Corporate and Securities Law) Corporate social responsibility has long been a topic at business conferences and corporate meetings, but it’s clear that we’ve entered into a new era in which...
By Eric Olson One of the consensus lessons of the past year in the legal services industry is that marketing is absolutely core to the strategic success of law firms. Nearly eight in 10 law firm leaders say that marketing is an important piece of what is required...
On the night of the inauguration, Katy Perry capped a day of great pomp and circumstance with a celebratory performance of “Firework” that lit up the D.C. sky. It was an exclamation point on a day marking the momentous transition from one presidency...
Now that we’ve collectively lived through the most unpredictable year in recent memory, it might seem a little ambitious, even reckless, to make predictions for 2021. After all, no law firm leader likely had “figure out how to respond to a global pandemic”...
The wedding vow “till death do us part” is going by the wayside for a steadily growing number of married couples who are 50 and over. So-called “gray divorces” are becoming increasingly common in the United States, as many couples of a certain...
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting economic downturn on law firm hiring is on the minds of many. While no Big Law firm has yet canceled its first-year class, many are pushing back start dates until 2021, or until after the postponed bar exams...
Faced with continued economic uncertainty and the expiration of the federal Paycheck Protection Program for those fortunate to secure forgivable loans, many small businesses are still struggling to cover one of their largest fixed costs: rent. Business owners...
The short life of the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) has been all about speed. As the COVID-19 pandemic paralyzed the economy in March 2020, the federal government hurriedly created the PPP loan program to rescue small businesses...
After working from home for months, trying to stay healthy and curb the spread of COVID-19, law firm leaders have begun determining how and when to safely transition their workforce back to the office. Now that states are beginning to lift mandatory closure orders...