Winning
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In-House Counsel, Litigators
Winning Isn't The Only Thing, And It Isn't Everything
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Litigators, Technology
This Week In Legal Tech: Rating Lawyers By Their Wins And Losses
Win-loss records tell only part of a lawyer’s story, but they can be a useful metric. - Sponsored
Document Automation For Law Firms: The Definitive Guide
Legal document automation is no longer only for the exclusive few. -
Litigators, Plaintiffs Firms
'Just Win, Baby' – The Path To Prosperity In A Plaintiffs’ Firm
For young lawyers working in plaintiffs’ firms, Al Davis's famous quote illuminates the path towards professional prosperity, as columnist Jed Cain explains.
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Basketball, Small Law Firms
The Practice: Something LeBron Said
Hate on the Heat all you want. LeBron put in years of hard work and dedication, and hard work pays off. -
Boutique Law Firms, Litigators, Small Law Firms
From Biglaw to Boutique: Fire in the Belly
If not the money, and not the public good, then what motivates a trial lawyer to win? Tom Wallerstein says you need a fire in your belly... -
Document Review, Intellectual Property, Patents, Technology
Predictive Coding Patented, E-Discovery World Gets Jealous
The normally tepid e-discovery world felt a little extra heat of competition yesterday. Recommind, one of the larger e-discovery vendors, announced Wednesday that it was issued a patent on predictive coding (which Gabe Acevedo, writing in these pages, named the Big Legal Technology Buzzword of 2011). In a nutshell, predictive coding is a relatively new […] -
1st Circuit, Biglaw, Labor / Employment, Legal Research, Litigators, Small Law Firms
Small Firms, Big Lawyers: It's Not About the Law
Ed. note: This is the latest installment of Small Firms, Big Lawyers, one of Above the Law’s new columns for small-firm lawyers. Let me tell you about a couple of cases I lost. Now, wait: before the Commentariat sharpens its knives (“This guy couldn’t get a big-firm job, then loses all his cases. No wonder […]