Empowering Your Lawyers: A Marketing Team's Guide to Achieving Goals and Fostering Lawyer Satisfaction
As a marketing professional, your job isn't just to check tasks off a list — it's to show attorneys why these efforts matter and how they can actually make their lives easier (and more profitable). This guide is packed with strategies to help you bridge the gap, build trust, and turn even the most skeptical lawyers into willing partners.
How I Made Managing Partner: 'Educate Yourself About Law Firm Economics,' Says Gregory Hessinger of Mitchell Silberberg
"I would advise them to focus on three things: 1) maintain excellence in lawyering, which garners the respect of your partners and the legal industry; 2) spend more time listening in firm meetings than speaking; 3) build meaningful relationships with partners that you can lean into when it comes time to make tough decisions—which occur almost daily in my role; and 4) educate yourself about law firm economics. In my experience, many great lawyers don't have the time or desire to invest in the latter two items, but anyone interested in a law firm leadership position must make that investment to be successful."
Bill Would Consolidate Antitrust Enforcement Under DOJ
“I think some of the complaints that people have about the actions under the Biden FTC has really raised the profile of these kinds of issues for companies and practitioners, said former Federal Trade Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen. “So I think some of the things the FTC has done in the past four years has raised interest in reining them in.
'Nation Is in Trouble': NY Lawmakers Advance Bill to Set Parameters for Shielding Juror IDs in Criminal Matters
A bill setting out the parameters for when a juror's identifying information can be shielded from the public during a state criminal trial is making its way through the New York Legislature. It would follow up on a newly enacted law providing for juror anonymity if there's good cause to do so. A Long Island Democrat said the framework would have come in handy for now-President Donald Trump's 2024 criminal case.