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Three Ways to Use Flexible Talent to Contain Costs and Manage Your Budget
Latitude is proud to sponsor the 14th Annual Law Department Operations Survey. We understand how valuable it is to provide law departments with a consistent platform to benchmark themselves and shed light on key trends. This year’s report shows how the law department operations function is evolving toward helping law departments deliver more value to…
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Responding to the Great Resignation: How to Retain Top Talent by Creating a Culture of Meaning
While a global pandemic proved to be a boon for the legal industry generally, it also served as a wake-up call for many attorneys. Now in the midst of the Great Resignation, many professionals, attorneys among them, are deciding that a fat paycheck is not the only (or even, most important) career motivator. No longer…
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The Secondment Trap: When Should Law Firms, Legal Departments & Attorneys Avoid a Traditional Law Firm Secondment?
The following was written by Ross Booher and Tim Haley. It was published by The National Law Review. For more than half a century, corporate law departments and law firms have used secondment arrangements as a way to solve the law department’s need for high-caliber, interim additional counsel to alleviate leaves of absence or sudden…
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ESG and the General Counsel: A Summary of Latitude’s Roundtable Discussion and CLE
“ESG is moving fast, and we are all focused on skating to where the puck is going to be.” – Jim Kerr, Southern Company “ESG today is not what it was yesterday. It’s not what it’s going to be tomorrow. It’s rapidly changing.” – Bill Ide, Akerman Latitude partner, Logan Ide, recently hosted “Navigating ESG…
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GC Insights with Nina Hickson
Latitude Atlanta President, Logan Ide, recently spoke with Nina Hickson, City Attorney, City of Atlanta. Nina is the chief legal officer for the City of Atlanta, with a $2.2 billion operating budget. Nina’s previous roles have included General Counsel for the Atlanta Beltline, City Attorney for the City of East Point, Presiding Judge of the…
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7 Job Interview Tips For Attorneys Seeking Law Firm and In-House Counsel Jobs
Successful interviews for competitive attorney jobs are not about luck or having a good hair day. They start with lots of preparation and practice. What you do before your interview usually determines what happens during the interview. If you are applying for a highly paid attorney position, those people interviewing you are almost certainly expecting…
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12 Tips for Video Interviews & Calls
Your video setup can make a massive difference in the impression you make with your interviewer(s). Here are a few tips for participating in a video call to help ensure you present well and demonstrate that you are technologically competent: Lighting – it is critical that you are well lit – to achieve this, place…
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GC Insights with Leslie Newman
Following the COVID-19 outbreak, U.S. businesses have been making substantial changes to the way they conduct business. GC Insights is an ongoing series of interviews that shares, in part, how GCs and their teams are demonstrating flexibility during these unprecedented times. Latitude Tennessee President, Candice Reed, recently spoke with Leslie Newman, Managing Counsel of Nashville-based…
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Other People Matter by Candice Reed
Written by Candice Reed, this article was originally published on July 17, 2018 in the Leadings as Lawyers blog, hosted by the Institute for Professional Leadership at The University of Tennessee College of Law. When I was at Penn, studying positive psychology, I had a professor who claimed to know the “one thing” (for all…
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GC Insights with Bil Potter
Following the COVID-19 outbreak, US businesses have been making substantial changes to the way they conduct business. GC Insights is an ongoing series of interviews that shares, in part, how GCs and their teams are demonstrating flexibility during these unprecedented times. Latitude Indiana President, Tim Haley, recently caught up with William Potter (“Bil”), General Counsel…
