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Junior Lawyers: Amplify Your Personal Branding With Intrapreneurship

Attorney at Work

For many years, law schools have failed to teach practice management and business development skills ?— Law schools are implementing curricula and programs that address the business issues law students will face when they become practicing lawyers. When it comes to personal branding for lawyers, ?

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Eliminating Bias in Work Allocation Is a Growing Focus for Law Firms

Attorney at Work

When the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School explored law firm work allocation in 2017 , longtime partners confirmed that traditional work allocation has an implicit bias toward associates who can easily develop relationships with partners.

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Attorney Reveals Top 3 Must-Have Skills for Paralegals

Paralegal Bootcamp

Ownership of work Taking ownership of your work is being the information manager, the project manager. There is a huge difference, from my perspective, in giving the assignment to someone who I know is paying attention like a project manager or the information manager. That’s what it means to me.

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How To Be A Problem Solving Paralegal

Paralegal Bootcamp

They went to law school for three years where this was ingrained. I discuss this in the project management lesson of my new Litigation Paralegal Boot Camp course. In project management, there is quality control – the steps you put into place to verify the accuracy of the work product before it goes out the door.

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A Path to eDiscovery Certification

Paralegal Bootcamp

For more than 10 years, ACEDS has trained lawyers, paralegals and other legal support professionals at law firms, corporate legal departments, the government, and in academia. He is also the author of the 2016 book Project Management in Electronic Discovery , now in its second edition. A – Yes, absolutely.

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Four Shortcuts to Managing Your Law Firm Projects

Rocket Matter

Lawyers go to law school to learn how to practice law. Unfortunately, as with most traditional professions like law, medicine, and dentistry, rigorous professional programs usually don’t teach the business management skills necessary to run a successful practice. Why you need a legal project management platform.

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How to Improve ROI of Contract Lifecycle Management Platforms

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Exceptional program and project management discipline with periodic review on use, issues, and improvement opportunities during initial implementation and to incorporate any change requests. Before joining QuisLex, she worked with a law firm handling IP-related matters and practiced in the Delhi High Court.