2024 Legal Landscape: What’s Trending? The legal industry is undergoing significant transformations. Technological innovation is largely driving this evolution. Changing client demands play a crucial role while shifts in the global economic environment are impacting the sector. Moving into 2024, several key trends are poised to shape the future of legal practice. Understanding these trends … Read more
By Tana Daughtrey You finally did it! You are an attorney. After years of school and hard work, you are eager to get started and prove yourself. You can’t wait to make your mark on your chosen profession. Does this sound familiar? Things start off great. You are energetic and working hard, long hours which … Read more
by Chris Curl, President – CECGroup-LLC I’ve been writing a lot about how to reduce legal spend in the 21st Century (see series regarding Litigation Management Revolution), but the actual no-brainer is to prevent litigation in the first place. Insurance claims-related litigation is a waste of time, resources, and money. Getting there is tougher. After … Read more
by Christopher Curl, President & CEO, CEC Group “Revolutions are won or lost by commitment and dedication to a cause,” said Marquis de Lafayette, who fought with colonial troops and is a true American Revolution hero. Nearly 234 years later, I suppose he was saying: “Stick with the plan.” But as times change, plans change. … Read more
by Christopher Curl, President & CEO, CEC Group Dan Burkland was hearing it loud and clear from the CFO of a major retail client in 1993: find a way to quantify and control legal costs! By 1993, the art of litigation management had entered what might be called Phase 3. Phase 1 was an … Read more
September 20, 2021 by Wilton Blake Creating B2B Content Without Legal Worries Your business-to-business (B2B) content may showcase your business or highlight your greatest successes, but is it legal? This post will discuss some issues with B2B content that risk flirting with litigation and suggest methods to avoiding them. What is B2B Content? B2B content—whether it’s … Read more
by Christopher Curl, President & CEO, CEC Group Everything evolves. In life, in business – even insurance and the legal industry. Insurance: who remembers adjusters taking written witness statements, in-person investigations using company cars, Polaroid cameras (to photograph accident sites), accident locus investigations? Who remembers claims, sales, and underwriting files so voluminous it took hand … Read more
Since the new school year began in late August, colleges and universities across the country have been reporting outbreaks of COVID-19, at times forcing the schools to pivot back to online instruction, send students home, and nix live attendance of events like football games. According to a recent report by CNN, 36 colleges have reported … Read more
Every crisis presents an opportunity for bad actors to commit fraud. Covid-19 scams have cost Americans a total of $13.4 million since the beginning of the year, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Fraudulent or mis-advertised products constitute one major category of these scams. It’s likely that plaintiff’s attorneys will take advantage of the fraud surge … Read more
With the numbers of new infections at or close to peak levels around the globe, it’s possible that the COVID-19 pandemic may soon begin to subside. But the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel may be dimmed by scores of employment-related lawsuits likely to arise from the event. At the end of the … Read more
