Ari Kaplan, a legal industry analyst and the host of the Reinventing Professionals podcast, recently spoke with attendees at the 2026 Legalweek conference about current trends and opportunities in the legal sector... Read more »
By Angela B. Ryan From as early on as I can remember, my mother told my three sisters and me that we could be anything we wanted—except lawyers. She should have known... Read more »
Law schools are sometimes faulted for not “teaching students to write well,” as if the goal were to mint stylists on demand. That’s not the complaint here. Let’s focus instead on a... Read more »
Law schools are sometimes faulted for not “teaching students to write well,” as if the goal were to mint stylists on demand. That’s not the complaint here. Let’s focus instead on a... Read more »
For nearly 15 years, my identity was intertwined with my professional role as a public servant. I worked as a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Labor’s regional solicitor’s office in... Read more »
For nearly 15 years, my identity was intertwined with my professional role as a public servant. I worked as a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Labor’s regional solicitor’s office in... Read more »
Why do legal writers resist or dismiss plain language? I addressed that question in my book Writing for Dollars, Writing to Please: “You can point to an assortment of reasons … but... Read more »
Transactional lawyers spend significant amounts of time working with documents. When drafting legal documents, precision matters; and ensuring that statutory and technical requirements are satisfied is essential. Clients rely on their lawyers... Read more »
Ari Kaplan recently spoke with Matteo Pagani, the founder and CEO of Co-Flo Enterprise, an iManage strategic technology partner. They discussed how corporate legal teams are effectively leveraging document management, the importance... Read more »
Many lawyers have eagerly adopted the buzzword “BLUF”—bottom line up front—as if invoking the acronym were synonymous with careful thinking. The catch is that almost no one stops to ask the important... Read more »