| February 3, 2011 A series of video interviews with leaders and innovators from the legal industry by Connected member Richard Parnham. |
| February 3, 2011 The London managing partner of the global law firm Baker & McKenzie talks about legal offshoring within his own firm - how it works, who benefits - and how the concept is rapidly evolving. |
| February 3, 2011 You might have heard of AIJA - otherwise known as the International Association of Young Lawyers. AIJA Executive Director, Christoph Raudonat, tells us a little more about the organisation. |
| February 3, 2011 Where English law firms lead, law firms in other countries tend to follow. To discuss some radical changes taking place in the English legal market is David McIntosh, chairman of the City of London Law Society. |
| February 3, 2011 In England, if you're an ethnic minority lawyer, you're less likely to work for a prestigious law firm than if you are white. If you're a woman lawyer, you're less likely than your male peers to be made a partner at a firm, and are more likely to leave the legal profession entirely. |
| February 3, 2011 For years, in-house lawyers have complained about the billable hour, and charge out rates demanded by law firms. But now, finally, one European law firm has tackled this issue head on. CMS Cameron McKenna's James Stringer is here to explain. |
| December 9, 2009 As part of martindale.com Connected Social Media week, we conducted some of our Member Spotlight interviews via Twitter. This member spotlight focused on Toby Brown, Lisa Salazar and Greg Lambert, the 3 geeks running one of the top 100 Law Blawgs as voted by ABA: 3 Geeks and a Law Blog. The Twinterview with the 3 Geeks was the first time a 3 Person interview was conducted on Twitter, and was very much fun as it was insightful. The interview was followed up by a great blog post by Greg Lambert on the Geeks blog, 3 Geeks and Law Blog, titled 'fishing the social media ocean'. |
| December 9, 2009 The founder of lawtech, Niki writes a weekly column for the Daily Record and co-authors a Thomson Reuters criminal law treatise for NY lawyers, and is in the process of writing a book on social media for lawyers that will be published next Spring. |
| November 30, 2009 Lee co-founded Europe's leading social business consultancy Headshift in 2003 to focus on the emerging area of social software and social networking, and is also a board member of a social enterprise, Involve. |
| November 30, 2009 Dubbed the 'Social Media Law Student', Rex has over 75,000 Twitter followers and is a leading source of information on the use of social media for lawyers and law firms from a new lawyer's perspective. |
| November 30, 2009 When she took one of those career aptitude tests at Mill Valley High School in California's Marin County, Veronica McGregor was only partially surprised at the results which said she would be best as an actress...or a lawyer. |
| October 8, 2009 Everything about Pamela Pengelley's early training suggested a path to the arts. She went to Cawthra Park Secondary School, where she majored in the visual arts and performed in various music groups. So how did this artist end up a lawyer? |
| April 10, 2009 Like many patent attorneys, Craig Larson, vice president and assistant general counsel at the international eye-care firm Bausch & Lomb, has had, from an early age, an interest in science. |
| March 18, 2009 As general counsel and vice president of external relations for Phoenix Motorcars in Ontario, California, Thad Balkman is a voice advocating for green energy and helping his organization sell zero-emission, freeway-speed, all-electric vehicles. |
| November 10, 2008 In 2003 Patti Blanchini was practicing sovereign law at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton, a leading international law firm. She loved her work and colleagues, but was beginning to think about ways to achieve a more balanced schedule. |
| September 7, 2008 The deputy general counsel for TW Telecom Inc. says when she went to law school, her courses didn't impart a good understanding of what corporate law was like. For one thing, "it is definitely more interesting than the classes suggested." |
| August 13, 2008 Meredith Stone loves being a corporate counsel, but she advises young lawyers interested in the in-house track to look before they leap. |
| July 15, 2008 Mary Clark is a vice president and deputy general counsel for LexisNexis. She is a former litigator and legal practice consultant who came to LexisNexis as General Counsel for Examen. |
| June 25, 2008 As co-chair of a recent Counsel to Counsel session on intellectual property in Boston, Patrick Flaherty presented the following ideas for coordinating a "data room" where prospective buyers can view records of IP assets. |
| May 29, 2008 Mark LeHocky is senior vice president and general counsel for Ross Stores, Inc., and was a recent participant in Martindale-Hubbell's Counsel to Counsel Best Practice Forums for in-house counsel. |