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The Secondment Trap: When Should Law Firms, Legal Departments & Attorneys Avoid a Traditional Law Firm Secondment?
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 increases in legal work. These law firm-provided flexible talent arrangements have largely been considered symbiotic, with each side…
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Other People Matter by Candice Reed
When I was at Penn, studying positive psychology, I had a professor who claimed to know the “one thing” (for all you Billy Crystal fans out there). Chris Peterson, the renowned psychologist who spent the latter part of his career studying character strengths and teaching others the secret to happiness, was fond of saying (repeatedly)…
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Webinar Video: Re-opening Your Workplace in a Global Pandemic
On Friday April 24, Logan Ide, President of Latitude Atlanta served as the moderator of a zoom webinar for a panel of leading Atlanta attorneys titled “Re-Opening Your Workplace in a Global Pandemic.” Watch a complete video of the webinar below. Talking point timelines are further down in case you want to access certain parts…
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Practical Tips for Lawyers Working from Home
With many Americans being asked to stay at home during the Covid-19 outbreak, individuals, roommates, and families are figuring out what it means to work from home while sharing space with others. Here are some practical tips for the transition. 1. Create space—Think through the existing spaces in your home and be willing to re-think…
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Latitude Gratitude
“If you have forgotten the language of gratitude, you will never be on speaking terms with happiness.” – C. Neil Strait. Last night, as I was walking alongside my six-year-old daughter as she was trick-or-treating, I found myself repeatedly reminding her to say “thank you” after receiving the candy that was being tossed into her…
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Breaking Down Silos + Building Connections
Latitude is a participating sponsor of Vanderbilt Law School’s upcoming Summit on Law and Innovation (SoLI). In this blog post, which originally was published on the SoLI website, Candice Reed explains why Latitude is interested in breaking down silos and building connections in the legal industry. When I was at Penn, studying positive psychology, I…
