This week’s featured contributor (Post 166) is Lori Mihalich-Levin, a partner in the Health Care practice at Dentons in Washington, DC, and the founder of Mindful Return, an organization that helps new parents navigate the back-to-work transition. The full philosophy of Mindful Return is contained in Lori’s 2017 book, Back to

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Guest contributor David Salgado Areias (163)

Today Legal Evolution is proud to publish the founder story of Areias Advogados, a Portuguese business law boutique with offices in Chaves, Porto, and Lisbon. The story (Post 164) is written by David Salgado Areias, the 36-year old managing partner.…
Publication schedule, the attention economy, and the desire to learn (160)

The method behind the summer madness.
Legal Evolution’s summer publication schedule started Sunday with Jason Barnwell’s magnificent post on designing knowledge work, see Post 159, and will continue each week until Labor Day.
When I launched…
I love to write, but it’s more important to build (154)

An essay for lawyers over the age of 55, plus anyone who knows one.
In his viral essay, “It’s Time to Build,” tech entrepreneur Marc Andreessen argues that the colossal institutional failures…
COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps: Privacy and Public Health in the Coronavirus Age (152)
Anna McGrane, one of the finest people in legaltech, has asked me to post this announcement for the COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps event organized by Rights over Tech (R/T), an NYU Law student group. This event takes place on Friday (May 1) at 3.45 pm eastern. You can register at this link. …
Introducing guest contributor Carlos Gámez (150)
For today’s feature post (151), Legal Evolution is pleased to welcome guest contributor Carlos Gámez, who currently serves as Client & Partner Lead of Legal Technology Innovation at Thomson Reuters.
I met Carlos last fall at Evolve the Law’s Law Jobs for Humans event in New York City. The event was…
A nursing home changed this law student’s life (149)
She has the gift of attention.
The above 4-minute video comes from my Deliberative Leadership class at Indiana Law. It is 3L Autumn Seib giving her required call-to-action speech via Zoom during our final class (Tuesday, April 21).
Because of the coronavirus, nursing homes are very much in the news. But Autumn’s speech…
Special guest post by Bill Mooz (147)
Today’s featured post (148) is authored by Bill Mooz, Co-Founder and Interim Executive Director of IFLP and a senior-level legal professional with remarkable breadth and depth of experience, including a clerkship on the DC Circuit, partner at Holland & Hart, senior in-house roles at Sun Microsystems and VMware, VP & GC at…
Legal Evolution opening up as a public service channel (141)
If you have something worth sharing, send it along
What was important last week seems completely irrelevant today. Thus, instead of focusing exclusively on our editorial content, which was carefully planned through May, Legal Evolution is turning to its readership to explore what’s important and worth sharing.
Legal Evolution’s readership is not large (~6,500 sessions…
Rule Makers versus Risk Takers (140)
Some realism on the regulatory reform movement
Imagine a legal sector neatly divided into two groups: the Rule Makers and the Risk Takers. With evidence piling up that the legal market is not working for ordinary citizens, the Rule Makers come together to evaluate possible changes. After the new rules are enacted, the burden shifts…