In this week’s episode of Law.com's Legal Speak podcast, Law.com business of law reporter Dylan Jackson interviews Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan founder John Quinn about the firm’s recent announcement that it will permanently allow all of its U.S. lawyers to work remotely as much as they wish.

In this week’s episode, Skadden's Alli Brown shared her strategy for securing defense verdicts in venues considered to be plaintiff-friendly.

This week’s episode features a conversation between Law.com Editor-in-Chief Zack Needles and Midwest legal recruiter Nancy Newman, who has noticed what she considers to be an alarming trend during the pandemic: a sharp increase in the use of counteroffers by legal industry employers.   

 

In this week's episode, Miller Nash's Jodi Green discusses the risks insurers should consider when writing coverage for cannabis grow operations, manufacturers and dispensaries.

In this week’s episode, Law.com business of law reporter Andrew Maloney speaks with Bill Josten, manager of enterprise content for Thomson Reuters, which earlier this week released its “2021 Law Firm Business Leaders Report.” Josten and Maloney discuss the survey’s findings and, more broadly, how firms should be preparing now for shifting market factors in the coming year or two—including the possibilities of red hot demand cooling down, rate growth slowing and talent retention continuing to be a challenge.

In this week’s episode, Morgan Lewis partners Collie James and Wendy West Feinstein discuss the significance of the first trial win for drug companies facing nationwide litigation over their roles in the opioid crisis and the benefits of virtual litigating.

Law.com reporter Jacqueline Thomsen reported on the first days of the civil trial against the alleged organizers of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, as well as the potential parallels with the Jan. 6 Capitol riot claims against Trump and his associates.

We’ll be back next week with a new episode, but until then we’re highlighting an interview from July that is only becoming more relevant as legal employers continue to contemplate office returns.In this episode, Law.com business of law reporter Dylan Jackson talks with Haley Moss, an autistic attorney and neurodiversity advocate who frequently provides consulting services to companies and law firms on neurodiversity programming.  

 

In this week’s episode, Edelson PC Chief of Staff Kelsey McCann shares how the Chicago-based firm is diversifying its ranks by shattering the "illusion" that only Big Law can provide attorneys with stable, high-income careers.