Uday Ahlawat is a co-managing partner of Ahlawat & Associates in New Delhi, India, and a member of the International Lawyers Network. In this episode, Lindsay and Uday discuss the changing marketplace that law firms are facing post-COVID, what makes India so attractive for businesses, and how law firms as businesses are driving efficiency.

You can listen to the podcast here, or we’ve provided a transcript of the highlights below.Continue Reading Law Firm ILN-telligence Podcast | Uday Ahlawat, Ahlawat & Associates

While I’m out of the office for our 2023 European Regional Conference in Prague, I am bringing you a guest post from a familiar writer – you may remember hearing from Alina Crisu of LLPO Law Firm in Nicosia, Cyprus previously when she wrote about Optimisation – the key to success in a crowded market or Trending topics…a fool’s errand? or when we had her on as a guest on our podcast. This week, she’s discussing myths about legal marketing. Continue Reading Legal Myths about Marketing

Galyna Melnyk is the deputy director for the Ukrainian office of PETERKA & PARTNERS, which is also the ILN’s representative for Ukraine. In this episode, she and Lindsay discuss her optimism in the current marketplace, how continuing to work brings her peace, and the two things she’s curious about in the market.

You can listen to the podcast here, or we’ve provided a transcript of the highlights below.Continue Reading Law Firm ILN-telligence Podcast | Galyna Melnyk, PETERKA & PARTNERS Ukraine

This week, we’re bringing you a guest post from one of the ILN’s marketing professionals! Tiffany Mechkaroff, the Business Development and Marketing Manager at Kalus Kenny Intelex, Melbourne, Australia is bringing us a fun post on the evolution of law firm marketing. Take a look at how far we’ve come – and how quickly! Continue Reading From Yellow Pages to AI – the evolution of law firm marketing

On our podcast, Law Firm ILN-telligence, one of my favorite questions to ask our guests is about the most important lesson that they’ve learned over their career. During the dog days of August, it can feel like a bit of a slog, so I thought I’d share some of my favorites with you to inspire you to push through the long days! Continue Reading Legal Ladder: Essential Career Lessons Every Lawyer Should Climb

All right kids – I had an interesting chat this morning with one of my lawyers about the thing he’s most curious about in his practice. More and more, the answer to that question when I ask it has become “artificial intelligence” and “ChatGPT.” I have some additional thoughts on the subject (including the idea that his wife, as a teacher, said that homework is becoming irrelevant because she’s tired of reading the same ChatGPT-submitted answers over and over), but I wanted to try a little exercise for today’s post.Continue Reading Embracing Change: 5 Ways to Navigate the Legal Landscape in the Digital Era

Last week, we brought you part one of our session from Rio, “Client Centricity in Practice,” moderated by Melissa Kanô and Alexandre Pessoa of KLA Advogados, who were joined by Waldemar Thiago Junior, Vice President, Managing Director of Brazil for General Mills.

There were so many fantastic takeaways that I wanted to give you all the chance to sit with the first part before I brought you the second section. So here we go! Continue Reading Client Centricity in Practice – Part Two

We recently held the ILN’s Annual Conference in Rio de Janeiro, and as part of the business sessions, our host firm, KLA Advogados, invited one of their clients to speak about “Client Centricity in Practice.” It was an opportunity to have an interactive discussion with the attendees about questions that they had for our client panelist, who was open and honest about what he looks for in his outside counsel and touched on some hot issues. The session was moderated by Melissa Kanô and Alexandre Pessoa of KLA Advogados, who were joined by Waldemar Thiago Junior, Vice President, Managing Director of Brazil for General Mills.

This was such a great and meaty session that I’m going to break this up into two parts! Here’s part one. Continue Reading Client Centricity in Practice – Part One