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'Remoteness Creates Remoteness': Paul Hastings' Chair Talks Keeping Lawyers 'Emotionally Connected' During COVID-19

Legal Speak

Release Date: 09/18/2020

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Legal Speak

For over 20 years, General Counsel Conference Midwest has been the premier event in the industry by delivering key insights and practical solutions that today's general counsel need to manage and better leverage C-Suite relationships, successfully overcome a litigation crisis, do more with fewer resources, and MUCH MORE.  But this year, the conference is experiencing a first … Legal Speak Live!  Hosts Cedra Mayfield and Patrick Smith are bringing you interviews with moderators and speakers from various panels at this year’s event in Chicago.  In this episode, Cedra is joined...

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Legal Speak

For over 20 years, General Counsel Conference Midwest has been the premier event in the industry by delivering key insights and practical solutions that today's general counsel need to manage and better leverage C-Suite relationships, successfully overcome a litigation crisis, do more with fewer resources, and MUCH MORE.  But this year, the conference is experiencing a first … Legal Speak Live!  Hosts Cedra Mayfield and Patrick Smith are bringing you interviews with moderators and speakers from various panels at this year’s event in Chicago.  In this episode, Cedra is joined...

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Legal Speak

For over 20 years, General Counsel Conference Midwest has been the premier event in the industry by delivering key insights and practical solutions that today's general counsel need to manage and better leverage C-Suite relationships, successfully overcome a litigation crisis, do more with fewer resources, and MUCH MORE.  But this year, the conference is experiencing a first … Legal Speak Live!  Hosts Cedra Mayfield and Patrick Smith are bringing you interviews with moderators and speakers from various panels at this year’s event in Chicago.  In this episode, Cedra is joined...

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Legal Speak

For over 20 years, General Counsel Conference Midwest has been the premier event in the industry by delivering key insights and practical solutions that today's general counsel need to manage and better leverage C-Suite relationships, successfully overcome a litigation crisis, do more with fewer resources, and MUCH MORE.  But this year, the conference is experiencing a first … Legal Speak Live!  Hosts Cedra Mayfield and Patrick Smith are bringing you interviews with moderators and speakers from various panels at this year’s event in Chicago.  In this episode, Cedra is joined...

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Legal Speak

For over 20 years, General Counsel Conference Midwest has been the premier event in the industry by delivering key insights and practical solutions that today's general counsel need to manage and better leverage C-Suite relationships, successfully overcome a litigation crisis, do more with fewer resources, and MUCH MORE.  But this year, the conference is experiencing a first … Legal Speak Live!  Hosts Cedra Mayfield and Patrick Smith are bringing you interviews with moderators and speakers from various panels at this year’s event in Chicago.  In this episode, Patrick is...

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Legal Speak

For over 20 years, General Counsel Conference Midwest has been the premier event in the industry by delivering key insights and practical solutions that today's general counsel need to manage and better leverage C-Suite relationships, successfully overcome a litigation crisis, do more with fewer resources, and MUCH MORE.  But this year, the conference is experiencing a first … Legal Speak Live!  Hosts Cedra Mayfield and Patrick Smith are bringing you interviews with moderators and speakers from various panels at this year’s event in Chicago.  In this episode, Patrick is...

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Legal Speak

For over 20 years, General Counsel Conference Midwest has been the premier event in the industry by delivering key insights and practical solutions that today's general counsel need to manage and better leverage C-Suite relationships, successfully overcome a litigation crisis, do more with fewer resources, and MUCH MORE.  But this year, the conference is experiencing a first … Legal Speak Live!  Hosts Cedra Mayfield and Patrick Smith are bringing you interviews with moderators and speakers from various panels at this year’s event in Chicago.  In this episode, Cedra is joined...

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Legal Speak

For over 20 years, General Counsel Conference Midwest has been the premier event in the industry by delivering key insights and practical solutions that today's general counsel need to manage and better leverage C-Suite relationships, successfully overcome a litigation crisis, do more with fewer resources, and MUCH MORE.  But this year, the conference is experiencing a first … Legal Speak Live!  Hosts Cedra Mayfield and Patrick Smith are bringing you interviews with moderators and speakers from various panels at this year’s event in Chicago.  In this episode, Cedra is joined...

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In this week's Legal Speak episode, McDermott Will & Emery chair Ira Coleman explains "Big Law Better", his idea on where the legal sector is moving and what elements of previous iterations the industry should be looking to maintain and which it should perhaps relegate to times gone by.

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In this week's Legal Speak episode, James Whittle with the American Property Casualty Insurance Association dives into the impact of what the organization has dubbed "legal system abuse" as social inflation—the belief that large corporations are "bad actors with deep pockets"—helps fuel "nuclear" verdicts.

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