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I wanted to put out a pitch for the AALL Leadership Academy and suggest that if you, or someone that works for you, are looking to hone your leadership skills and network with experienced leaders and peers within AALL, then you need to take a look at this program.
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[Ed Note: Please welcome guest blogger, Susan Kostal. Susan is a longtime legal affairs journalist who also offers marketing advice and media coaching. Follow her on Twitter at @skostal.]
LMA Tech’s annual in-house counsel panel is always one of the biggest draws of the conference, and this year was no different.
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I was watching Tim Corcoran’s video on “Useful Metrics & Benchmarking” and it made me think about how some of the metrics and benchmarking strategies apply to information professionals within a law firm environment. Are we, as managers of these professionals, giving them the right type of feedback that
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Because anecdote is often more compelling than data, I’ll start with an example from two weeks ago. An adjunct professor who teaches one of those great law school classes with cool titles like Tomorrow’s Lawyer had his students take the Word module of
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