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contemporary issues and trends in the international legal profession
contemporary issues and trends in the international legal profession
contemporary issues and trends in the international legal profession

Details: Written by Norman Clark; Published: 09 April 2025

The CLA Declaration on Artificial Intelligence provides a useful intellectual framework for the principled -- and, very importantly, risk-managed -- integration of artificial intelligence into law firms, corporate law departments, and government legal agencies.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping the global landscape, offering transformative possibilities while posing significant challenges. Recognizing its dual potential, the Commonwealth Lawyers Association (CLA) has issued a comprehensive Declaration on AI, emphasizing ethical governance, human rights, and sustainability. This statement, released on April 9, 2025, outlines seven guiding principles to ensure AI's responsible development and deployment.

Details: Written by Sarah Max; Published: 02 April 2025

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As we at Walker Clark have been meeting since January 2025 with clients and professional friends worldwide to discuss their priorities and concerns for the next 12 to 24 months, many of them – across the world and the political spectrum – have used the same phrase to describe their anxiety about the uncertainties that lie ahead: “How can we Trump-proof our firm?”

The announcement by the American president on 2 April 2025 of universal tariffs ranging from 10% to 49%, to go into effect in less than 12 hours, makes that question even more timely.

In this post, Walker Clark Senior Consultant Sarah Max continues her analysis of the possible impact of tariffs and deep cuts in U.S. government programs and spending on law firms everywhere.

Details: Written by Norman Clark; Published: 31 March 2025

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This is the third installment of an advance serialization of a ground-breaking new book by Norman K. Clark and Lisa M. Walker Johnson, Wisdom in Law Firm Management, to be published in June 2025.

Details: Written by Norman Clark; Published: 25 March 2025

This video podcast, co-produced by Walker Clark LLC and Intricate Research, is the second in a series Demystifying IP Outsourcing.

Details: Written by Norman Clark; Published: 17 March 2025

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This is the second installment of an advance serialization of a ground-breaking new book by Norman K. Clark and Lisa M. Walker Johnson, Wisdom in Law Firm Management, to be published in June 2025.

Details: Written by Norman Clark; Published: 12 March 2025

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Walker Clark LLC begins an advance serialization of a ground-breaking new book by Norman K. Clark and Lisa M. Walker Johnson, Wisdom in Law Firm Management, to be published in June 2025.

How can ancient Eastern wisdom transform the management and performance of modern law firms worldwide?

Details: Written by Sarah Max; Published: 05 March 2025

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What is BABA, and why is it important to law firms everywhere?

Details: Written by Norman Clark; Published: 13 February 2025

This video podcast, co-produced by Walker Clark LLC and Intricate Research, is the first in a series Demystifying IP Outsourcing.

Details: Written by Sarah Max; Published: 05 February 2025

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The second Trump presidency has started with a flurry of activity characteristic of Donald Trump's management style. With the rapid movement over the last two weeks, it comes as no surprise that the EU is bracing for potential changes the US might try to force in the areas of economics, global security, and climate policy.

Details: Written by Sarah Max; Published: 28 January 2025

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China is not the only country the Trump administration has in its tariff crosshairs. President Trump has already announced that we can expect to see a 25% tariff placed on all goods imported into the US from Canada, as early as February of this year. Why has Canada drawn this attention from the Trump administration? How can you support your clients that might be impacted by these new tariffs against Canada?

Details: Written by Sarah Max; Published: 24 January 2025

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Sarah Max continues her discussion of the financial implications of a second Trump administration. In this post, she unpacks some of Trump’s economic policies with respect to China and how those impacts are expected to affect the international financial industry.

Details: Written by Gerald J. Kirkpatrick; Published: 24 January 2025

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What are the implications that international geopolitical events have for law firms in the mid-2020s?

Guest contributor Gerald J. Kirkpatrick examines post-World-War-II diplomacy by the great powers and what its disruption or continuity might mean for the world in 2025 and beyond.

This is part of an ongoing series of informed commentaries on world events and the risks and opportunities they might present to law firms everywhere and their clients.

Details: Written by Sarah Max; Published: 17 January 2025

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This is the second of a series of articles about how the demand for legal services might change over the next two years under the Trump Administration. This article focuses on the effects of proposed changes to taxation.

Details: Written by Sarah Max; Published: 16 January 2025

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With an impending administration change in the U.S. on January 20, 2025, many of our clients and professional friend have asked us the same question: What will the second Trump administration mean for my firm?

This is the first of a series of articles about how the demand for legal services might change over the next two years.

Details: Written by Norman Clark; Published: 02 January 2025

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Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "Knowledge is the antidote to fear."

Well, maybe fear might be a bit of an exaggeration.

However, in recent confidential discussions with law firm leaders around the world, I have noticed a very interesting apprehension that seems to be emerging as they consider the business prospects for their firm in for the next two to five years.

There is a recognition that the long-term economic vision should be optimistic, built in part on the robust recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and also some well-aimed investments by governments in areas such as the improvements in infrastructure that many of the mature economies will need to take full advantage of new growth opportunities. At the same time, this optimism is counterbalanced -- in some instances, outweighed -- by a pessimism about how short-term economic and geopolitical issues could destabilize progress and even, in some instances, have long-term negative consequences.

How then, can a law firm navigate through the strategic fears about the rest of the decade -- even the rest of 2025 -- with a reasonable degree of confidence?

Details: Written by Norman Clark; Published: 28 July 2024

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...or is it?

The inability to answer this question can be costing your law firm significant losses in terms of efficiency, operating expenses, morale, and lost opportunities.

Details: Written by Norman Clark; Published: 23 July 2024

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The post-pandemic era of the mid-2020s has emphasized three things that small law firms must -- and can -- do to to attract and retain top legal talent.

Details: Written by Norman Clark; Published: 18 April 2024

How can your law firm's risk management programs keep up with the ethical and practical challenges of artificial intelligence? Here is a "quick start" outline.

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