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LinkedIn was acquired by Micro­soft recently, and it’s been busy at work improving the service. The company launched an updat­ed site in late January. But what most people don’t know is that this wasn’t just an everyday, cosmetic touch-up. This ...

When mergers and acquisitions work out as planned, the result can be a thing of beauty. Synergies are realized, efficiencies reaped, market share expanded and employee teams melded into precisely humming clockwork. But there are times when M&As do not ...

Tagged with: Acquisitions Business Mergers

Lawyers often want to know the se­cret to business-development suc­cess and how rainmakers make their large book of business hap­pen. The truth is there is no secret. Sure, there is an art and science to business develop­ment, but it is ...

Tagged with: Business Development

Back in 2015 I wrote about what appeared to be an emerging trend: data from wearable mobile devic­es being used in the courtroom. Then, there had been two cases using Fitbit data: one where it was offered as evidence to ...

Tagged with: Criminal Data Collection Fitbit

Law schools and continuing legal education programs do an excel­lent job teaching such subjects as civil procedure, torts and criminal law, but they typically don’t teach aspiring lawyers how to market their services, work effectively with clients and colleagues, mobilize ...

While many large companies use automated résumé screener software to cut down the initial pool of job applicants, loading your résumé with meaningless buzzwords is not the smartest way to get noticed. “Nearly everyone is guilty of using buzzwords from ...

Almost exactly one year after Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice and U.K.-based Bond Dickinson announced they would be forming a strategic alliance, the two firms have decided to take things to the next level. The partners of Womble Carlyle and ...

Tagged with: Bond Dickinson Merger Womble Carlyle

“Mise en place” is a French culinary phrase often used in professional kitchens to refer to preparing and arranging the ingredients a chef will require for a meal before service begins. In short, it means to “set in place.” If ...

Tagged with: ADR Alternative Dispute Resolution

The experience of law school is unique among graduate-level programs, so much so that law students and lawyers have often told me that law school changed them in some fundamental ways. This realization usually occurs after numerous friends and family ...

Tagged with: Law School Socratic Method

Attorneys sometimes talk about “dumbing down” their case before presenting it to jurors. Certainly, many issues need to be explained in an orderly and simple way, and that process could be called “dumbing down.” But, from my perspective, the expression ...

Tagged with: Patent Disputes