Better leadership is no longer just a business advantage in law firms. It has become a mental health strategy.
As the legal profession faces increasing pressure, tighter margins and higher expectations, the wellbeing of law firm owners and their teams is being tested. Long hours, emotional client work and constant responsibility have made mental health
Charlie Gaudet: Escape the Founder Trap and Scale Your Firm
In this episode, Steve Fretzin and Charlie Gaudet discuss:
- Moving beyond hard work toward sustainable growth
- Escaping the founder-centered business model
- Outperforming talent using systems
- Protecting time as the highest-leverage asset
Key Takeaways:
- Hard work eventually becomes a liability when it replaces strategy, systems, and recovery. Sustainable growth requires designing the business so it
AI Courses that Defined 2025 (5 Days of CLE)
Artificial intelligence became impossible to ignore. From landmark regulatory frameworks to ethical reckonings about the future of legal practice itself, AI dominated conversations in every corner of the profession: attorneys who once viewed AI as a distant disruption found themselves navigating a reality where understanding these tools and their implications is essential to competent practice.
Why Plaintiffs’ Personal Injury Cases Are Well-Suited to AI-Driven Automation
I spoke with Raymond Mieszaniec, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of EvenUp, a legal tech company that uses AI to help personal injury attorneys maximize case values. We discussed why plaintiffs’ personal injury work is well-suited to AI-driven automation, how AI tools will affect the volume and quality of cases filed, and how
How Consistent Publishing Built a Global Reputation for D&O Insurance Lawyer
For nearly 20 years, Kevin LaCroix has published The D&O Diary, a blog focused on directors and officers insurance that has become required reading for lawyers, insurers and professionals around the world. What began as an experiment driven by curiosity evolved into one of the most respected niche legal publications on the internet.
In
2025's Most Talked-About CLE Courses (5 Days of CLE)
The legal profession thrives on dialogue: courses that inspire debate, challenge assumptions, and catalyze real change. This year, three programs emerged as conversation starters that resonated across practice areas and experience levels, generating thousands of reviews and sparking discussions that extended well beyond the virtual classroom.
Today, we’re spotlighting the CLE courses that captured the
Clio in 2025: A New Era for Legal Work
A landmark year of growth, deals, and investments
For Clio, 2025 was a year of unprecedented growth, driven by strategic deals and acquisitions that fundamentally reshaped the legaltech landscape.
vLex acquisition
In June, Clio announced a definitive agreement to acquire vLex, completing the deal in November. At US$1 billion, this was the largest M&A
LinkedIn, Legal Publishing, and Authority in the Days of AI
Writing the last few days about publishing by legal practitioners in the age of AI got me thinking about whether a lawyer’s LinkedIn publishing (articles and posts) are ever cited by LLM’s, the result being enhanced authority. Such content has been found on Google.
The answer is generally no for AI.
LinkedIn posts live in
Binge-Worthy CLE: The Most Watched Courses of 2025 (5 Days of CLE)
Welcome to Day 3 of our 5 Days of CLE series! Today, we’re spotlighting the programs that thousands of attorneys couldn’t stop watching, and dominated viewing numbers in 2025.
What makes a CLE course truly binge-worthy? It’s the perfect combination of timely relevance, practical insights, and engaging content that keeps you learning long after your
From Automation to Intelligence: Trends Shaping the Finance Function in 2025 and Beyond
Finance leaders today navigate a complex, high-stakes environment where expectations of speed, scale, and adaptability are rising faster than capacity. They are driving digital transformation in the finance function and scaling operations at a time of limited resources and rising costs of modernization.
Added to these are sector-specific imperatives, such as an insurance CFO’s priority