September 2019

VOLUME 39, ISSUE 8

Table of Contents

Features

Columns

  • Big Ideas: ALA Executive Director’s Letter

    Let’s Connect and Collaborate to Create Change

    By Oliver Yandle

    It’s September and that means it’s back to school time

  • BP Perspective: Insights from a Business Partner

    Using Benefit Intel to Compete for the Best

    By Jim Wrage

    The numbers make it pretty clear. In an expanding field of diverse talent, recruiting the best of the best attorneys for your law firm is a feat in and of itself.

  • Diversity Dialogue: Broadening Business Perspectives

    The Secret Every Inclusive Leader Must Know

    By Michelle Silverthorn

    I do a lot of speeches on diversity and inclusion. In every speech, I always repeat one thing to the audience: This is not a comfortable talk; it can’t be.

  • Innovations: Fresh Thoughts For Managing

    Build a Culture of Engagement

    By

    Most law firms acknowledge the need to improve associate engagement, yet struggle to identify specific tangible methods and appropriate metrics to tackle and measure this goal.

  • Marketing Matters: Boost Your Firm’s Brand

    The Marketing Courses Your Associates Need

    By Ross Fishman, JD

    I vividly recall my first few years in practice ― the daily fear and anxiety as I struggled to learn the useful legal skills that law schools fail to teach.

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