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In a new white paper, 5 Steps to Proactively Seek Feedback and Receive it Well , co-authored by Ann Jenrette-Thomas, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Stinson, discusses some of the hardships lawyers face receiving and learning from feedback. Both the white paper and this podcast were produced by  Thomson Reuters Next Gen LoC 's initiative.  This podcasts, featuring Jenrette-Thomas and Dr....

What does courage and authenticity have to do with leading in an uncertain environment? How can colleagues support their Asian Pacific American (APA) peers who may be feeling uneasy about the xenophobia and racism that has flared since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic? More importantly, how can legal employers show that the societal disparities outside of the workplace matter to them, their o...

The Legal Executive Institute, in conjunction with the broader Thomson Reuters Institute, is pleased to announce that we are launching our new podcast channel, Thomson Reuters Market Insights . Featuring podcasts aimed at tax, compliance, and legal professionals, this new channel will focus on bringing listeners engaging interviews and content from thought leaders across a variety of disciplines.

A new podcast discusses the role of volunteer leadership for professional women of color, how such leadership roles can separate them from their peers, and the value of taking ownership of your career and development and the initiative to find unique opportunities that align to career goals.

In this podcast, Conway Ekpo, an in-house lawyer at a Wall Street bank, and Erika Stallings, an entertainment lawyer, discuss how they and 20 other seasoned black lawyers — consisting of partners, mid-level and senior associates, and in-house attorneys — realized they needed to use their knowledge and expertise to address the dearth of black lawyers in the legal industry.  To address this gap, Ekp...

Niki Khoshzamir, CEO of Practice Pro, and David Morrow, start-up adviser for emerging industries, both transitioned from practicing lawyers into business roles within the last few years. During the recent Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color Ask-a-Mentor session, the pair sat down with participants from the community of lawyers of color to share their stories of how they made the transi...

NEW YORK — At the recent COO/CFO Forum , we had the chance to sit down with Dr. Evan Parker, founder of Parker Analytics , and a true pioneer in the art and science of using data analytics to help law firms make more informed decisions. Dr. Parker shared with us how he and some fellow researchers analyzed law firm data to determine where the strength of a particular firm lies. The project we discu...

This past Spring, Melanie Bragg, author and solo practicing lawyer at Bragg Law PC , published her third book, Defining Moments: Insights into the Lawyers Soul . In this podcast, Natalie Runyon, Director of Enterprise Content for Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute, chats with Bragg about the impetus for the book and some of the nuggets of wisdom from those she interviewed.  

As part of the World Bank's Law, Justice and Development Week 2019: Rights, Technology & Development in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 4-7, Joe Raczynski, legal technologist and futurist for Thomson Reuters, conducted an interview with Sandie Okoro, Senior Vice President and General Counsel at the World Bank.

What are the skills that the legal industry needs to develop and integrate in an era of rapid technological and business model transformation? In a new podcast, Mark Cohen, CEO of Legal Mosaic , a legal business consultancy; and Daniel Rodriguez , the Harold Washington Professor at Northwestern University's Pritzker School of Law, discussed this issue at length. With one representative from the ac...

The Legal Executive Institute, in collaboration with the Association of Legal Administrators (ALA) and the Georgetown Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession recently conducted a survey of law firm leaders of primarily U.S.-based law firms in the midsize to large law firm market to examine where those leaders saw the greatest potential threats to their law firms, how they plan to confront those...

Recently, the Legal Executive Institute's Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color initiative released its second white paper, titled  5 Marketing Strategies for Attorneys of Color in Big Law  [insert link], by  Ann Jenrette-Thomas , Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer at Stinson LLP. In a new podcast announcing the white paper, Natalie Runyon, Director of Enterprise Content for Thomson Reu...

As a follow-up to Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color's interview with the Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession's CEO Sandra Yamate on the launch of the Social Impact Incubator (SII), Natalie Runyon, Director for Enterprise Content at Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute, spoke with three SII members Katie Larkin-Wong , Associate at Latham & Watkins; Deanna Kwong , Seni...

In our new podcast, Natalie Runyon, Director of Enterprise Content for Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute and content strategist for the Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color initiative sat down with Paula Edgar and Wendy Amengual Wark, partners from Inclusion Strategy Solutions. Both Edgar and Amengual Wark have deep expertise in how to build inclusive organizations that promote...

In a new podcast, we feature industry experts Amanda DuPont , an investigative research specialist and speaker with Thomson Reuters, and Catherine Banks , a compliance, risk, and audit specialist for the Risk Team at Refinitiv. Amanda and Catherine are going to discuss the concept of risk scoring of customer accounts by financial institutions, how it works, and how the practice can help protect a...

This podcast features a conversation about the duties of a general counsel within a midsize law firm with David Wollin, general counsel of Hinckley Allen. The interview will focus on areas of the duties of midsize law firm GC, how to tell when a firm needs one, and the impact on the firm itself. The interview is conducted by James Jones of Georgetown Law and the GC Roundtable.

In a new podcast, we're featuring a conversation about how financial institutions can hire, train, and retain key staff in the areas of anti-money laundering, financial crime and regulatory compliance. Gina Jurva, Attorney and Manager of the Risk & Compliance Platform at Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute , speaks to Michael Schidlow, Head of Financial Crime Risk Training for HSBC Bank's Gl...

This podcast features a conversation about fraud investigations in financial institutions and how to enhance them with real-time data. Gina Jurva, attorney and manager of the Risk & Compliance platform at Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute, speaks to Rick Wells, director of the Global Financial Crimes Compliance group at Bank of America.

The podcast will examine Weil's  Upstander Action Guide . Meredith Moore, the head of D&I and Social Responsibility, will provide an overview of what an Upstander is and what behaviors an Upstander exhibits. She also will discuss the launch session that involved an interactive theatre group acting out scenarios of an Upstander intervention and the impact and outcomes from the Upstander program.

As part of the Legal Executive Institute's Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color initiative's ongoing coverage, we are featuring a podcast to discuss the goals of the  Black GC 2025 Initiative concerning hiring, training and retention of GCs of color, with Ernest Tuckett , former General Counsel for the Americas at AkzoNobel and co-founder of the Black GC 2025 Initiative.

In this series of podcasts, we will feature the insights of Nancey Watson, of NL Watson Consulting in Toronto, around issues concerning the pricing and procurement of legal services, including how to keep the human touch amid the metrics, what clients want and don't want, how to avoid pricing pitfalls, and when to walk away from an RFP.

In this podcast, we're talking about legal ramifications of sexual harassment in the medical profession and how attorneys can best advise clients about the issues involved with Andrew Zwerling, a partner at the law firm of Garfunkel Wild, a full-service law firm with more than 30 years of experience in the health care industry, advising on both industry-specific matters as well as the business and...

In a new podcast, we're featuring Gina Scialabba, attorney and the Head of Thought Leadership for the Risk & Compliance platform at Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute, who is speaking to Jennifer Singh, Senior Director within Thomson Reuters' Digital Identity Solutions group. Singh is currently incubating a new business of identity verification services for Thomson Reuters. This thought-pro...

In this latest Legal Executive Institute podcast, we're featuring a conversation about the role of a chief diversity & inclusion officer at a law firm. We're speaking with Michele Meyer-Shipp, who last October, became the first ever chief diversity & inclusion officer at the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.

As part of our Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color initiative, we feature a new podcast in which we speak to Demetra Liggins, a partner at the law firm Thomson & Knight, and Co-Founder — with her twin sister — of Corporate Homie, an organization that seeks to help women and minorities advance in corporate America.