The Practice regularly looks at professions outside of law to ask: what can lawyers learn from outside the legal profession? This year, we expanded our perspective, covering medicine and healthcare, finance and accounting, as well as corporate investigations and public relations. Just as legal training offers value to nonlegal work, comparative outlooks can offer the legal profession critical insights into its own blind spots.=
Jacob Silverman, CEO of Kroll Inc, on managing crises
Silverman joined a panel during the crisis lawyering symposium to discuss how to effectively manage crises at Kroll, a premier corporate investigations firm.
Tracking the Profession: Health informatics as a tool for better patient outcomes
In Legal Informatics (Vol. 8, Issue 1, November/December 2021), we investigated health informatics, a comparative and robust field with degree programs and work placements, to ask what it could teach us about the more nascent, but burgeoning field of legal informatics.
Disciplining Data: A conversation with a school of information sciences dean
In this Speaker’s Corner from Legal Informatics (Vol. 8, Issue 1, November/December 2021), David Wilkins sat down with Eunice Santos, professor and dean of the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, for a conversation about the intersection of information sciences and the law, and how to train students to be effective collaborators and translators between the disciplines.
Communicating Clearly: crisis communications requires empathy, trust, and planning
In the issue on Crisis Lawyering (Vol. 7, Issue 6, September/October 2021), we looked at the discipline of crisis communications to find out both what it requires and how lawyers are increasingly working with and critical to public relations plans.
Knowing is Half the Battle: A look at knowledge management
From Integration in Legal Services (Vol. 7, Issue 4, May/June 2021), we explore knowledge management in theory and practice, zeroing in on a case study about McKinsey’s legal department as it undergoes a major knowledge management transformation.
Canary in a Coal Mine? What legal services can learn from healthcare’s consolidation experience
In this Speaker’s Corner from Integration in Legal Services (Vol. 7, Issue 4, May/June 2021), David Wilkins speaks with Leemore Dafny, Bruce V. Rauner professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, for a discussion around consolidation in the health care market and what lessons those in the market for legal services might draw from their experience.