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7.31.20: The ‘Good News’ Edition, Along with Some of the Usual Bad News

A panel of legal journalists discusses the week’s top stories in legal technology and innovation. This week’s topics include: how Zoom helped a law firm avoid layoffs, new data on the pandemic’s impact on law practices, technical difficulties…

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Ep 015 – Responding to Stressful Workday Situations

If we take stock of how we’re thinking throughout the day, we find that we’re just bouncing from thought to thought all day long. And as we’re bouncing from thought to thought, we often don’t realize that many of those thoughts are stressful…

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Ep 014 – Thoughts Are Not Facts

One thing that prevents us from making progress or moving through our day with confidence is our tendency to mistake thoughts for facts. We often let thoughts that have no basis in fact stay top of mind for us all day long. And not only that – we…

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7.24.20: Top Stories Include the Perils and Pitfalls of Zoom Courts and A New Legal News Service from Thomson Reuters

The Legaltech Week panel of journalists tackles another week of legal news. Among the top stories we discuss this week: fun with mute buttons, civil rights edition; the privacy and due process dangers of Zoom courts; excessive attorneys’ fees in a…

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Ep 013 – Workday Mantras

Repetition, in any form, can be an incredibly powerful way to cultivate change. In this episode I’ll introduce you to a concept that will help you capture and steer the power of repetition when we apply it to the way we think about ourselves and our…

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How the Pandemic and Racism Collide

Today we speak with Professor Sarah Hooper about why communities of color are hospitalized and dying at disproportionately higher rates and what we can do to mitigate this serious issue.  Professor Hooper is Executive Director of the UCSF/UC…

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Deloitte Principal Mark Ross on the Big Four Firm’s New Legal Business Practice

Touting it as the next phase in its global expansion to transform the business of law, Big Four professional services firm Deloitte has launched its practice in the United States, which it describes as “a comprehensive suite of legal management…

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Ep 012 – You Are Today What You Thought About Yesterday

At the heart of any change you want to see is an originating thought that sets an idea you have into motion. But sometimes when we’re trying to make big changes or accomplish a goal that seems complex or uncertain, we lose sight of the fact that…

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7.17.20: Top Stories Include the Machines that Influence Courts, the Westlaw-ROSS legal battle, a major EU privacy decision, and much more

The Legaltech Week panel of journalists convenes for another look back at the week’s top stories in legal technology and innovation. Among the stories they discuss this week are a Law.com series on the machines influencing criminal justice…

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Plans Are Nothing, Planning Is Everything

Our ability to make plans is an important skill and a key part of our personal and professional growth. But what’s even more important than knowing how to make a plan is being skilled in the art of planning, which includes the ability to acquire and…

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