The most important weekly legal world news
There have been some really important issues during this week regarding the LGBT rights in some countries and, also, France has made a really drastic decision by banning short-domestic flights in order to prevent the negative aspects of the climate change.   South Korea   One of the mo...
TIL - 02 June 2023
The latest legal news from around the world
The legal system around the world is constantly changing its norms and legislation which not only affects to the native population as foreigners can suffer the benefits or the negative aspects of that specific country. England England has approved a new ID law that has denied the vote of more than...
TIL - 26 May 2023
How to deliver legal presentations in the correct way
The professionals of the legal sector need to deal during their workday with the task of communicating via presentations different aspects regarding their work. Moreover, they also have to succeed at transmitting in a clear and concise way a case in court and have good conversation skills with their...
TIL - 10 May 2023
Tips for lawyers to manage their time correctly
  The professionals from the legal sector are exposed to an extremely stressful workplace in which they suffer the consequences of having to work with tight deadlines, the creation of complex reports, meetings and trying to have the best perspectives on their client’s cases. These kinds...
TIL - 09 May 2023
How to gain clients as a law firm
Not every client is going to be attracted to every single firm from the legal sector as they have their own personal taste, and they want a special treatment on their cases. It is important to know what kind of firm someone has or works on to provide and have the best method to transmit their servic...
TIL - 08 May 2023
Lawyers should know when to decline a client
A question many students and workers from the legal sector, especially the ones with less experience, have is if they can decline a client from acquiring their services. The answer is an affirmative one as an attorney can refuse to defend someone’s case.   Even if it is extremely weird ...
TIL - 05 May 2023
Social media advice for lawyers to keep in mind
The most influential tool in the current world are the different social media that provokes a huge impact in the way the population perceives things and, also, leads their thoughts on a topic to a concrete direction. They have a lot of advantages such as giving the user the possibility to connect wi...
TIL - 04 May 2023
How to deal correctly with clients as a lawyer
Professionals of the legal sector have the obligation to communicate and establish formal relationships with their clients as they will be working on their problems, doubts or cases. As every single individual has its own personality and may feel insecure at the time they share their situation with ...
TIL - 03 May 2023
How to defend correctly a criminal as a lawyer
A question every lawyer has made themselves during their college years was how they should defend a person who is guilty from committing a crime in a proper way. Legal professionals are also afraid to defend someone who is pled blameable as they will have to confront in some cases the bad opinions o...
TIL - 28 April 2023
From Good to Great: Creating a Winning Business Development Culture in Law Firms
Developing a strong business development (BD) culture is crucial for law firms, as it ensures sustainable growth and strong client relationships. However, many law firms struggle to implement effective BD strategies due to lack of leadership focus, inadequate planning, and insufficient support. &nb...
Ben Paul - 27 April 2023
Tips for law firms to bring the best of artificial intelligence
Technology devices started as simple tools that could help in very easy tasks to humanity, but as people began to realize that they could do more for society, they invested in the evolution of this type of objects. In a few years, the growth which was experimented was huge leading to great advances ...
TIL - 27 April 2023
Legal strategies that companies use to succeed
The actual socioeconomic situation is going through a very complex time as the effects of the pandemic of the Covid-19 and the consequences of the Ukraine war has caused a global recession in every professional sector. Companies need to deal with higher costs of production, lack of resources and the...
TIL - 26 April 2023
The future of lawyers is being threaten by the ChatGPT
ChatGPT is the name given to a chatbot that is becoming a well-known tool and a social media sensation due to its advantages that offers in the creation of essays, the explanation of complex topics and even write popular songs. Even if its outcome may result positive it is a potential and big thread...
TIL - 25 April 2023
The importance of the diversity in the legal sector
Law firms has been a very masculine sector, particularly in management positions, which caused rejection among women and people from the LGBT community or other minorities. The lack of representation has also contributed to generate a sense of scariness in the legal profession but, as it is an actua...
TIL - 24 April 2023
The O shaped lawyer and its advantages
Change is inevitable in the legal sector as the profession tends to evolve in order to satisfy their clients needs and expectations. Even if it is impossible to not to happen, it is a difficult task that law firms need to cope with in order to continue with their business and the success that they h...
TIL - 21 April 2023
Strategies that legal tech can use to optimize hybrid workplaces
  The pandemic caused by the virus of the Covid-19 has affected the way all professional sectors operate. It has made, to some jobs, change their way of working and, specifically, has created a transition from the office to the house with the help of the new technologies. Many workplaces, incl...
TIL - 20 April 2023
How to write a legal brief?
The legal profession includes a lot of different tasks that needs to be learn in order to become a relevant personality in the sector and also build a personal brand. One of the simplest but that many lawyers continue to do wrong is the writing of legal briefs which are one of the most important pie...
TIL - 19 April 2023
Techniques for passing exams for Law students
The study of the law is a very complex activity that requires some skills such as a good memory, time and patience in order to become one of the best legal professionals in the sector. In addition, future lawyers will have to pass difficult exams that will include a lot of content and it is importan...
TIL - 18 April 2023
Why law firms need to use modern software?
Lawyers should always try to give the best of them during their cases and operations. The irruption of the standardized use of the technology in every professional sector has created a new challenge for the legal workers. In the current digital world, they should stay up to date with the latest adva...
TIL - 17 April 2023
Legal design is the perfect tool to make law comprehensible
The aspect of the legal design is a relevant characteristic that every law firm needs to have in order to facilitate the knowledge about law issues to the general public and the rest of the professionals of the same sector.   Its main goal is to make law more interesting, easier to understand...
TIL - 14 April 2023
Latin legal terms every lawyer should know
Every lawyer or professional of the legal sector has studied during their academic years a lot of Latin idioms in order to communicate in a correct and corporate way during the performance of their job. Some terms are difficult to comprehend and memorize and, over the time, many Latinisms will be fo...
TIL - 13 April 2023
How AI and human resources can work together in the legal sector
The artificial intelligence (AI) has come to stay in every aspect of life and as it has made a revolution in the professional sectors in so many ways, there is a need to be cautious and responsible with the use of this type of technology because the results they can provide may be biased or unfair. ...
TIL - 12 April 2023
Key factors that everyone should know about the legal sector
The legal profession involves some complex terminology that only people who have studied law will comprehend correctly. The thing is that people, regarding their job or educational level, should know at least some simple key factor in order to know what to do with the legal documents that everybody ...
TIL - 11 April 2023
Why business and law firms need legal support services?
In the actual world, due to the uncertainty of the socioeconomic situation, problems and difficulties can occur without prior notice. For that reason, every business and law firm need to have great support services in order to cope with this type of issues in a successful way.   In order to h...
TIL - 10 April 2023
Three principal types of dispute resolution in the legal sector
The dispute resolution, which is also known as the dispute settlement, is a way of achieving a solution of a conflict or dispute without having the necessity to go to court or require a judge or trial that will decide what will be the outcome.   Some professions don’t need to deal with ...
TIL - 05 April 2023
How to define the legal company’s personality
Every single business has missions to achieve and vision statements to accomplish. This are known as their values that provides to the company a personality or brand which will result in the principal idea that people are going to make about the legal firm. Moreover, this will also create a specific...
TIL - 04 April 2023
The power of oratory in the legal profession
Lawyers need to face in their career the challenge of doing well at public speaking which is an extremely difficult skill that is fundamental to practice in order to be successful at the profession. Moreover, the oratory is essential to discuss in the court with other legal colleagues, make proficie...
TIL - 03 April 2023
The keys to have the best law firm website design
Every professional sector needs to have presence in the online world. Nowadays, the virtual spaces are the ones to have priority among the choices of consulting services and products by potential customers. For that reason, it is important to have an intuitive and good design of the business website...
TIL - 31 March 2023
How legal firms can ensure their success
Legal firms face a lot of complex challenges that they need to deal in a correct way in order to not fail at their tasks and goals. The increasement of the competence, the new necessities that lawyers should cover and the essential of the legal sector to stay up to date in order to know all the chan...
TIL - 30 March 2023
In-house trends for lawyers to keep in mind in 2023
The pressure of the current socio-economic situation has affected all the professional sectors. Law firms need to do more with less resources as the financial uncertainty still continue. Lawyers will find a lot of difficult challenges during this year, but the circumstances for the in-house legal wo...
TIL - 29 March 2023
The matter of the humanization of the legal profession
The effects of the Covid -19 had in the population are still being suffered. It also provoked an acceleration of some socioeconomic factors that were taking small steps in the past such as the digital transformation, the technological advances and the social and political polarization. This aspects ...
TIL - 28 March 2023
How to operate a law firm in an economic downturn
Due to the effects of the pandemic of Covid-19 and the geopolitical consequences of the war in Ukraine, it has caused an economic downturn all around the world. Prices of every single product or service are rising and the rates of unemployment are increasing. The legal sector is ...
TIL - 27 March 2023
How to deal with failure as a lawyer
The fear that failure evokes in every professional sector is something workers need to deal with because it can cause serious mental problems, such as anxiety, and even abandon the job the employee has worked a lot in order to reach that position. For that reasons, it is relevant to learn how to cop...
TIL - 24 March 2023
Seven tips that every lawyer going solo need to know
Many professionals of the legal sector prefer to focus their career in the solo practice. It is an extremely complex task due to the competition of the business and the difficulty of attracting new clients, but if it is made in the correct way, it will be an incredibly rewarding experience that will...
TIL - 23 March 2023
The best new legal business models
Law firms, for a long time, have follow a traditional business model which was based on the concept of selling time or as its commonly known, the billable hour. The irruption of the standardized use of the new technology and a tightening market have thrown into crisis the traditional methods of the ...
TIL - 22 March 2023
Belinda G. Schwarts, new Executive Chair of Herrick
The law firm Herrick, Feinstein LLP has announced that the professional, Belinda G. Schwartz, has been named Executive Chair of the office. In addition, Schwartz will lead the firm’s Executive Committee. Belinda has become one of the few women in the nation currently leading a major law firm ...
TIL - 21 March 2023
The seven C’s of an effective legal communication
Communication is a key factor in the legal profession. Lawyers need to know how to transmit in an effective way their goals or objectives to their clients in order to be successful. It is important to keep in mind the seven C’s that should be in every legal activity that involves the act of co...
TIL - 21 March 2023
How a law firm can attract new clients
Every single law firm need clients to exist. They are the main economic source of the office and, also, the ones who will bring an opportunity to the lawyers to show off their skills and talent in the cases or in the judge. Finding new customers is a complex task because it involves having to step o...
TIL - 17 March 2023
Legal marketing trends that every law firm needs to have
Marketing is an extremely important element in every single business or professional sector. Its main goal is to promote its product or service in a unique way in order to obtain and maintain clients. Legal marketing is more difficult than in other area because it has some disadvantages such as rest...
TIL - 16 March 2023
Would you prefer a robot or a person defend you in a court?
Could lawyers and professionals of the legal sector be replaced by a robot? This sounds futuristic, awkward and dystopian, but the use of artificial intelligence (AI) has been standardized among the legal community. What have been identified as the first legal robot is an application called DoNotPa...
TIL - 15 March 2023
Qualities that every good lawyer must have
Every profession needs a group of skills to be developed to be a great employee in your work field. As it has always been said practice makes the perfection so, following this advice, there are some qualities that every lawyer needs to work on if they want to achieve success. First of all, every pr...
TIL - 14 March 2023
The importance of the specialization in the legal profession
Today's market is full of great professionals from any field with extensive knowledge, languages ​​and, in many cases, overqualified for most positions. This also happens in the legal sector, so it is necessary for lawyers make a change in order to stand out from all the competition. The importa...
TIL - 13 March 2023
Five dangerous cyberattacks that threaten the legal sector
As the virtual world expands and the presence of the Internet takes over all areas of communication, so does malware. This new word means malicious software and its main mission is to infiltrate into any device without the user's prior knowledge. The legal sector has experienced ...
TIL - 10 March 2023
Learn how to establish limits at work
Work is one of the fundamental elements in adult life. Being comfortable with the job in the sense of feeling motivated and able to carry out the tasks that have been assigned is not always easy. The daily routine of a worker can be very stressful, which can cause health problems, accordin...
TIL - 09 March 2023
Bighand's latest report reveals pressure on prices
Bighand has produced a report that provides an accurate picture of the latest trends in legal pricing and budgeting and, has also revealed, that there is pressure on pricing in the legal sector. The report shows the growing issues facing law firms in the face of evolving client expectations for grea...
TIL - 08 March 2023
Neuromarketing helps law firms grow
Neuromarketing is the science that studies how the human brain responds to certain stimuli, such as messages, that are generated by advertising and marketing. This science is based on the idea that most consumer decisions are driven by the subconscious and emotions rather than by reason, i.e., they ...
TIL - 07 March 2023
Business feedback: a tool for law firm management
When people are affected by external stimuli, the human organism automatically generates a response known as feedback. This concept is also extrapolated beyond the functioning of the human body, specifically to the business sector when a company's employees receive a message about the work actions t...
TIL - 06 March 2023
Technology companies that are revolutionizing the legal system
The development of technology in the legal sector has grown a lot in recent years, so much so that it has transformed the legal system itself to make justice accessible to as many people as possible, although fortunately, robots and artificial intelligence cannot yet replace lawyers as advocates in ...
TIL - 03 March 2023
The key elements in the decoration of a law office
The way in which the offices of a law firm are decorated is very important because the distribution and placement of the elements in an office is the way to represent the company itself. Just as people's houses are decorated according to the taste of those who live in them, offices have to convey th...
TIL - 01 March 2023
How artificial intelligence can write your demand documents
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the most important revolution in technology since its invention. It is the attempt to imitate human intelligence through software, designing systems that act as humans would. But artificial intelligence should not be confused with computer programs because they are n...
TIL - 28 February 2023
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