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Articles by Sameena Kluck
Amplifying Your Associates
Only a small portion of a large incoming first-year class will become partners at the firm where they begin their careers. Many associates are leaving their firms because they don't feel they're receiving enough growth opportunities, mentoring, professional development, compensation or flexibility.
GC Spotlight: Lucy Bassli
Today we highlight Lucy Endel Bassli, Founder and Principal of InnoLaw Group, PLLC, and former Assistant General Counsel of Legal Operations and Contracting at Microsoft (who was responsible for enterprise-wide global clients and programs). Now Lucy works with general counsel everyday, and is the author of the just-released book, CLM Simplified: Efficient Contracting for Law Departments (along with serving as a strategic advisor to LawGeex).
Regulations: Stifling Innovation or Forcing Companies to Better Communicate and Innovate?
MENLO PARK, Calif. — Almost three-quarters of chief legal officers asked in a recent survey by the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) identified regulatory concerns as a top issue keeping them up at night. Little surprise then that the push and pull between regulation and the freedom to innovate was a major theme echoed throughout DLA Piper’s recent Global Technology Summit.
2018 Emerging Legal Technology Forum: Law Firms May Be Wary of the Cloud Now, but That Will Change
TORONTO, Ont. — Why have law firms resisted the move to cloud technology and what are the benefits they’re missing out on? Recently, a panel of technology experts discussed how cloud technology is not new, but it keeps getting re-branded even as it’s getting more looks from law firms as they grapple with small and large data breaches and cybersecurity incidents.
ILTACON 2018: Emerging Roles in Legal Technology (Part 2)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — At the International Legal Technology Association’s (ILTA)’s recent 2018 conference (ILTACON) one dominant theme emerged throughout several panels and keynotes. And that is that everyone in law firms, especially attorneys, should seek collaboration with those (potential non-legal) professionals in the new tech-focused roles within their firms in order to better drive innovation, value, and profitability for both their clients and firms.
ILTACON 2018: Emerging Roles in Legal Technology (Part 1)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — While the dominant themes of the International Legal Technology Association’s (ILTA)’s recent 2018 conference (ILTACON) might have seemed like blockchain, artificial intelligence, and innovation, in reality, one clear theme emerged: everyone in law firms, especially attorneys, need to collaborate with new roles and personas in their firms to better drive innovation, value, and profitability for both their clients and firms.
Promoting Values & Democracy in the Legal Industry, with the ABA’s Judy Perry Martinez
Judy Perry Martinez, president-elect nominee of the American Bar Association, if elected at the group’s Annual Meeting in August, will take over the presidency in 2019. She has not been shy about speaking up regarding the rule of law’s critical importance to our democracy and how lawyers need to continue to play a strong role in promoting our democratic values.
Firms Need to Deal with Country-Implementation of Privacy Rules on Top of GDPR, Panel Says
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The International Association of Privacy Professionals’ (IAPP’s) recent Global Privacy Summit 2018, came at an interesting time for the privacy industry — a mere 60 days before the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) takes effect.
Strength in Numbers: How Can Law Firms Improve on Retaining & Promoting Diverse Attorneys?
NEW YORK — Law firms’ inability to increase retention of diverse attorneys and promote them into leadership was a topic of frank discussion by a panel at the recent Strength in Numbers: Advancing Collaborative Diversity in the Workforce, presented by Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute and the Transforming Women’s Leadership in the Law initiative.
ABA MidYear Meeting: Encouraging Women to Find Their Voice
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — At the American Bar Association’s Midyear Meeting held earlier this month, I was fortunate to be part of a panel session dedicated to learning how to help women find their voice and ignore those barriers — whether people or policies — that are deterring them from reaching their goals.
Microsoft & Davis Wright Show How Clients & Law Firms Can Partner
Two of the most fascinating sessions at this year’s ILTA conference were a pair of talks — Two (and More) Heads are Better than One! A Pricing Roundtable and How to Effectuate a Better Legal Services Delivery Model — on pricing and staffing issues. But it was the juxtaposition of these sessions, held back-to-back with both the law firm and the client that had cooperated on a new process and pricing model, that made these discussions resonate long after the conference ended.
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