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Recent interviews with several firm leaders (business professionals and lawyers) unveil that when it comes to success metrics, especially for the key client teams (aka strategic accounts), revenue matters most. We don’t argue with that. Revenue is the ultimate true marker of success. Yet, to reach revenue goals, we know many other factors are essential. Specifically: Senior-level contacts. C-...

People hold a protest against the 'Citizenship Law' outside the Knesset on June 29, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) With help from the opposition, the controversial so-called Citizenship Law passed its first reading in the Knesset plenum on Monday, despite objections from the coalition’s Meretz and Ra’am parties. Along with the bill sponsored by Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked, which passed 44...

Attorney Waverly Harkins takes a cell phone photograph of the expanded view of newly proposed congressional boundaries between Hinds and Madison counties following a meeting of the Joint Congressional Redistricting and Legislative Reapportionment Committees at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) The Mississippi Ethics Commission dismissed a com...

HARRISBURG – The Senate Law and Justice Committee on Monday heard from state and local officials, law enforcement and medical marijuana dispensaries about the impact regulating adult-use cannabis could have in Pennsylvania. Chairman Mike Regan (R-31) convened the hearing to delve deeper into the public safety issues surrounding adult-use laws and noted that, in recent years, many law enforcem...

(WETM) – Local law enforcement is alerting residents of various scams that appear to offer merchandise from a local Sheriff’s Office. The Chemung County Sheriff’s Office said that it has received multiple calls about text messages that appear to be from the Office. The messages contain the message “Chemung County Sheriff’s Office shirt is $10 OFF ready to order now https://rebrand.ly/chemungc...

The President’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law makes historic investments in the transportation sector: improving public safety and climate resilience, creating jobs across the country, and delivering a more equitable future “The once-in-a-generation investments in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will improve people’s lives in every state in the nation by increasing access to safe, clean, r...

Focus The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on Monday that it intends to restore the 2012 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards that were rolled back under the Trump administration in 2020. The standards, first implemented under President Barack Obama, require power plants to reduce pollutants, including mercury and acid gases, thereby improving public health, according to B...

Lucio Vasquez / Houston Public MediaA Harris County sheriff’s deputy outside a YES Prep charter school campus in southwest Houston on Oct. 1, 2021, where law enforcement responded to a possible active shooter. A request from Republican Harris County commissioners to funnel taxpayer dollars from county agencies to law enforcement budgets would lead to more than 1,000 layoffs in county governme...

The practice of law is not always as glamorous as it’s cracked up to be. The truth is there can be a lot of monotonous work that is not particularly fulfilling and it takes up inordinate amounts of time. So, maybe it isn’t really surprising that an experienced lawyer — a partner, no less — thinks that their life’s greatest achievement is outside of the law. But what you may not be ready for i...

James Hieb says he wants to be transparent and says he's tried to grow up over the years James Hieb speaks during the House District 39 appointment on Feb. 7, 2022. Courtesy Clackamas County PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Clackamas County’s appointed representative for Oregon House District 39 has had several run-ins with the law but says he’s tried to grow up over the years. Clackamas and Marion co...