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Build Back Better: What Associates Need to Know

The other day we were presenting a webinar (what else?) on “The Lawyer of the Future” to a firm’s summer associate class, now in the midst of their remote (what else?) June and July program, and the quite rational question came up, “What do associates need to know?”... read more +

Build Back Better: How to Learn from Coronatide

by | May 26, 2020 | 2 Comments

A premise of our "Build Back Better" focus du jour (actually, du l'annee) is that we've already drastically changed many things about how we conventionally worked, so we can change more. McKinsey has also been thinking (and writing) about this topic, and in...

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Build Back Better: Welcome Back to the Office?

by | May 18, 2020 | 1 Comment

We’ve written that it’s not quite true that we know nothing about “the other side” of this global pox, and currently holding the pole position among things we abruptly realized will look different is that as of, say, 10 weeks ago, we all were used to large-scale,...

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Build. Back. Better.

by | May 11, 2020 | 0 Comments

This column is by Bruce MacEwen and Janet Stanton What do we know now that we did not know in January?  Obviously, we know we’re in the grip of a global pandemic, which has precipitated a worldwide macroeconomic seizure comparable to the Great Depression, and that...

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Join Us For a Webinar on Litigation in Recessions

by | May 10, 2020 | 0 Comments

Janet and Bruce will be two of the panelists presenting a webinar on litigation in recessions, along with Prof. Eli Wald of the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and two experts in the e-discovery industry: Wed 20 May 2020 1:00 PM Eastern Duration: 1 hour...

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