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Open Mind, Global Reach: Alternative Career Paths for Lawyers
Harvard Law's Program on the Legal Profession Helps Lawyers Meet Challenges of Legal Industry
The Impact of Metadata and System Usage Information:
e-Discovery Update
Learning from the Best: A Conversation About Mastering the Rockefeller Habits
New Year Goals: Boosting Law Firm Business in 2008

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The Sedona Conference

The Sedona Conference® presents dialogue-based, advanced conferences that are "intellectually stimulating and thought provoking."

The Tenth Annual Conference on Complex Litigation, April 17-18 in Sedona, AZ, will focus on the issues that the Health Care and Medical Products Industries need to address when they encounter multifaceted civil litigation or governmental investigations.

As with all of our Regular Season Conferences, registration is strictly limited to 40 participants to ensure an intimate environment for meaningful dialogue. Go here for further information on Complex Litigation X, and to learn of other upcoming events presented by The Sedona Conference®.

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The legal industry is changing around us.

 

Taking stock of your career is natural around this time: You want to face the new year with an open mind, and plan for meeting the challenges of the legal industry.

You can get an edge by understanding shifts in e-discovery and learning proven habits for quick-moving growth. It also helps to stay on top of the business of law, to boost your own understanding of this rapidly changing industry.

It can be challenging to stay current with changes in the legal industries--let along jump ahead of the curve. It's advantageous to have a partner help you find your place. Please don't hesitate to get in touch with Lumen Legal. We'll help you assess your next fit.

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David Galbenski, Esq.
President and CEO, Lumen Legal

Open Mind, Global Reach: Alternative Career Paths for Lawyers

In today's global economy, a law degree, the right experience and an open mind can take you anywhere in the world. Take the work that Joseph Rio does as director of technical services and business development at CARANA Corp.: He finds bright lawyers and plugs them into non-traditional, international opportunities that could change the way an entire culture understands the law.

Read about international development programs.

Harvard Law's Program on the Legal Profession Helps Lawyers Meet Challenges of Legal Industry

Harvard Law School's Program on the Legal Profession conducts research projects, examines the way law schools prepare students for the profession and works to bridge the gap between the legal academy and the real world. Its Executive Education courses bring participants together with Program faculty to discuss strategies for the rapidly changing legal services industry.

Find the intersection.

The Impact of Metadata and System Usage Information: e-Discovery Update

Courts are unlikely to show either tolerance or sympathy to a party who scrubs computer data in bad faith. In Ameriwood Industries, Inc. v. Liberman, No. 4:06CV524-DJS (E.D. Mo.), the court found the defendants installed a program on their computers to remove data and make documents unrecoverable, which wiped out electronic evidence relevant to the case. Legal Career Insight talks to Linda K. Stevens, the prevailing attorney for plaintiff.

Get the update.

Learning from the Best: A Conversation About Mastering the Rockefeller Habits

In Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, author Verne Harnish expounds on how John D. Rockefeller's practices can drive fast-growth profitability for businesses. Top family law attorney Randy Kessler, whose firm has put the book's concepts into practice, talks with Legal Career Insight about how the four key principles can be used in a law firm.

Apply the Rockefeller habits.

New Year Goals: Boosting Law Firm Business
in 2008

How do you start the new year right? With a strategy checkup, according to business guru Bob Prosen. Evaluation of a law firm on a regular basis, as well as setting and tracking objectives, will get a firm off to the right start. Prosen says that every firm member -- from the most senior partner to the newest assistant -- should be tapped to acquire new clients.

Begin to strategize.

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