The last eighteen months have been…a lot.

I know that’s a clear understatement and particularly for those who have truly suffered through the loss of family members, friends, jobs, their way of life – the heartbreak is incalculable. But each of us has been changed in ways we haven’t yet come to terms with. Continue Reading Slip-Sliding Away…from Change

The ILN is proud to announce our latest firm of the month, Kalus Kenny Intelex, Australia!
Kalus Kenny Intelex (KKI) is a progressive, commercially oriented firm, specializing in M+A, corporate and commercial transactions, investment and structures, intellectual property, property, employment law, estates and trusts, complex structured finance, sports law, family law, and commercial litigation and dispute resolution. Their lawyers offer outstanding commercial and legal experience in several key industries, providing clear, commercial advice and strategies. They share their clients’ successes by becoming a true strategic partner in their pursuits, and always seek to deliver more value by offering business outcomes in addition to legal advice. Their personal and proactive approach, combined with a straightforward nature, makes them a different kind of law firm. For over 25 years, they have been providing expert legal and proactive strategic advice to local and international enterprises.

Continue Reading ILN Firm of the Month – Kalus Kenny Intelex, Australia!

If you have zoom fatigue, raise your hand.

My guess is that everyone has their hand raised. I know I do. Everyone is fed up with taking meetings on their screens, and so when something is voluntary, you’re going to opt out of it. I get it.

But what are you building if you don’t show up? Continue Reading What are you Building if you Don’t Show up?

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Heinan Landa is the founder and CEO of Optimal Networks and David Campbell is its Chief Operating Officer. Optimal has been helping their clients to solve their business problems through thoughtful technology recommendations with white-glove support. In this episode, Lindsay talks with David and Heinan about what a post-pandemic workplace might look like, the key areas that firms and companies need to consider when making the return to “normal,” and how firms’ human capital remains their most important asset.

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There’s no quick fix for relationship development. But there ARE some quick things you can do today to advance either the first step in your relationship with someone or the next step. When you think of networking and relationship building as a series of smaller actions that you can take to help weave the fabric of stronger relationships, it stops feeling so overwhelming and starts feeling like something you can build into your everyday schedule. So whether you’ve got five minutes or an hour, you can strengthen your network today: Continue Reading 5 Quick Tips to Build Better Business Relationships

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Antonello Corrado is a founding partner of EXPLegal – Italian and International Law Firm and a member of the International Lawyers Network. In this episode, Lindsay and Antonello cover returning to work, the long-term effects that the pandemic will and may have on firms and people, and the silver linings that we’ve forced ourselves to find in these challenging times.

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“Innovation” is a buzzword that gets thrown around a lot these days, right up there with “disruption.” It sounds like something that’s foreign in the legal industry, but it shouldn’t be. Believe it or not, we, too, can be innovative.

We’ve all gotten excited because the pandemic has made us believe that we can now be innovative – firms that were previously stuck were forced to become fully remote in a matter of days or weeks. Most court systems are now paperless. We’re e-signing documents and discussing hybrid working. What else is on the horizon?!?

<<Insert screeching stop noise here>> Continue Reading It’s Past Time to Innovate for Radical Success

One of my favorite running jokes is “How do you know someone has run a marathon?”

“Don’t worry, they’ll tell you!”

And, we will.

But truthfully, if you’re a runner, you already know this – running has so many parallels to other areas of your life. I won’t get into them all here, lest I lose you, dear reader. Just trust me. And training and running for a marathon will teach you things about yourself that are irreplaceable. I’m embarking on my second training cycle at the moment and feeling every emotion imaginable. Fear, excitement, exhaustion (is exhaustion an emotion? I suspect all of us can identify with it after being in a pandemic), the list goes on. Continue Reading Three Ways Marathon Running Can Prepare You for Business Development

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Ron Norwood is a partner with Lewis Rice in St. Louis, Missouri, a member of the International Lawyers Network. In this episode, Lindsay and Ron talk extensively about his work as a mentor, including how and why he gives back, the meaningful commitment to diversity & inclusion that Lewis Rice has made and how Ron leads that charge as the chair of the D&I committee at the firm, and the Missouri Bar’s Special Committee on Lawyers of Color and Ron’s work with them to get six important initiatives passed through the Bar’s Board of Governors (and what the next steps look like). Ron also talks about this moment in history with this week’s verdict in the Chauvin trial, his own background growing up in Chicago, and working as a police internal affairs prosecutor. Truly one of our most powerful episodes.