Mid-year is a good time to check up on your CLE progress and make sure your credits are on track especially for those with a June 30 compliance deadline.
May 17, 2021 at 12:06 PM
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Companies, their boards, and regulators are increasingly focused on ESG (environmental, social, and governance) risks and opportunities. If you haven’t been paying attention to developments related to ESG, now is the time to start.
“We began receiving requests from our members for ESG-focused programming a few years ago, as lawyers, compliance professionals, and others saw a need to build their knowledge,” says Seema Lal Meehan, Director, Special Projects and Senior Program Attorney at Practising Law Institute (PLI). The organizer of the upcoming PLI program ESG 2021: What It Means for Boards, Management, and Counsel, Meehan reports that interest in the topic is greater than ever this year, particularly as a growing number of Biglaw and other firms launch ESG-focused practices.
April 12, 2021 at 2:43 PM
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The COVID-19 pandemic had a dramatic effect on immigration law, disrupting policies that were already shaken up by the Trump Administration during its first three years. Practitioners who advise on immigration law now must keep up with changes wrought by the pandemic as well as near-daily immigration news from the Biden Administration.
For the previous Administration, “COVID created the opportunity to significantly curtail legal immigration,” says immigration law expert Austin T. Fragomen, Jr., Chairman of the Executive Committee at Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen, & Loewy, LLP and co-author of
PLI Chronicle, Fragomen outlines the immigration actions taken by the Biden Administration in its early days and anticipates changes to come.
March 16, 2021 at 10:08 AM
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Deborah Brightman Farone: CEO, Strategic Marketing Advisor – Farone Advisors LLC
As an unprecedented year comes full circle, many businesses are taking the opportunity to reassess their business development strategies, tactics, and goals. For law firms, some trends have become clear – and now is the time to take stock and make sure your firm is keeping up, says business development and marketing expert Deborah Farone.
Assess your technology. “There’s much more stress on the technology that marketing departments are using,” Farone observes. “Because everyone is working from home, people need information online, at their fingertips.” CMOs and partners expect their teams to be able to implement dashboards they can use to access client data, from pitching, to billing, to client service teams.
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From contracts, to liability, to risk, clients are facing unprecedented questions related to COVID-19. A year into the pandemic, are you prepared to advise them?
In a treatise from PLI Press,
COVID-19 and Other Pandemics: Business and Legal Challenges, public health and safety regulation experts James T. O’Reilly and Philip Hagan offer background and analysis that lawyers can use. The first publication to address these complex, evolving issues, the treatise combines practical advice with the latest scientific research and guidelines from key government agencies.
Here are some key points for businesses – and their counsel – to consider as they begin to assess the impact of COVID-19 and to prepare for its long-term consequences: