Tag: Greg Lambert

Positioning yourself for Tomorrow’s Social Media Today: Practical Approaches for Legal Professionals

lexisnexis

Join Compliance Building’s Doug Cornelius for a 60-minute Webinar at 11:00 am Eastern time on Wednesday, December 9. It’s free, sponsored by Martindale-Hubbell Connected.

The webinar will give you examples of social media web-based tools helping legal professionals become more efficient and productive. Will we soon say goodbye to email?

Panel

The webinar panel includes:

Summary

I will start with my hatred of the term “social media.” For me it’s all about communication, self-interest, finding information and saving that information for later use. I have no snake-oil to sell, claim no expertise as a “social media expert” and have not written a book. My part of the panel is just focused on how I personally take advantage of these tools and where I see them going.

Nicole will talk about why you should care about intermedia.

Greg show how to use web based communication  tools as information resource tools and ways to filter the information.

Rex has the perspective of social media as an opportunity aggregator, looking at Twitter, Google Wave, blogging and blog participation.

Lee will end things by looking at the social business design for the legal sector and look at how some law firms are using web-based communication internally.

You will notice that we are not talking about Martindale-Hubbell Connected.

You can register for the webinar here: http://www.interaction.com/LNMH/connected/webinars/index.cfm?wid=127

Twitter

For those of you on Twitter, we are using the #MHCO hashtag for the webinar.

Materials

The materials and some of the questions and answers are available in the Martindale-Hubble Connected group on Social Media for Lawyers. (registration required. I couldn’t get permission to post the materials publicly.)

Positioning yourself for tomorrow’s social media today: Practical approaches for legal professionals

lexisnexis

Join me for a 60-minute Webinar at 11:00 am Eastern time on Wednesday, December 9. It’s free, sponsored by Martindale-Hubbell Connected.

The webinar will give you ‘real world’ examples of social media tools helping legal professionals become more efficient and productive. The panelists will also discuss the future of social media use – will we soon say goodbye to email?

The webinar panel includes a range of legal professionals and social media experts from across the globe:

You can register for the webinar here.

Learn real world examples of how social media tools help legal professionals be more efficient. Explore the future of social media.
Topics:

  • Time management: Finding the time.
  • Personal and professional development: Ways to research, share and learn by collaboration.
  • Future uses by of social media

Compliance Bits and Pieces

Here is this weeks collection of stuff I found interesting, but didn’t blog about:

To Combat Overseas Bribery, Authorities Make It Personal
Dionne Searcy for The Wall Street Journal

“To really achieve the kind of deterrent effect we’re shooting for, you have to prosecute individuals,” Mark Mendelsohn, deputy chief of the Justice Department’s criminal division, says in an interview.

Cuomo announced two guilty pleas in the ongoing Pay to Play investigation
New York State Attorney General

Raymond Harding, the former chair of the Liberal Party, and Saul Meyer, a founding partner of a Dallas-based firm that advises public pension systems across the nation, both pled guilty to felony securities fraud charges for their involvement in pay-to-play kickback schemes at the New York State Office of the Comptroller and the CRF. “These guilty pleas vividly depict the depth and breadth of corruption involving the New York State pension fund,” said Attorney General Cuomo. “In one case, we see New York’s state pension fund looted to reward a political boss with hundreds of thousands of dollars in improper payments. In the other, we see a pension fund adviser – the outside “gatekeeper” who is supposed to safeguard the integrity of the pension fund process – recommending deals based on pressure from pension officials and politically-connected people.

Cuomo announces legislation to reform state pension fund
New York State Attorney General

Bipartisan Legislation Will Establish Board of Trustees to Manage State Pension Fund, Ban Placement Agents and Create Enforcement Mechanisms to Ensure Compliance

Private Equity LPs Seek to Impose “Best Practices” on Sponsor Community
Geoffrey Parnass for Private Equity Law Review

The Institutional Limited Partners Association, a trade association that represents 220 institutional investors in private equity funds, recently published a set of Private Equity Principles, designed to guide future dealings between its members and the private equity sponsor community. The Association’s members include public and corporate pension funds, endowments, foundations, family offices and insurance companies with more than $1 trillion in private equity funds under management. The publication of the Principles is the first time that a group of influential limited partners has collectively published a set of core requirements for private equity fund documents.

Social Networking Policies – What Does Your Law Firm Have To Say?
Greg Lambert for 3 Geeks and a Law Blog

According to the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics survey on what companies are doing with social networking compliance, there are over 50% of companies that either do not have a social networking policy for their employees to follow, or do not know if they do. After running across a couple of law firm client alerts on this very topic, I thought I’d take a quick look and build an ad hoc bibliography on what attorneys at major law firms are saying lately on this topic.