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Client Speak: Cross-Selling Optional or Obligatory?Cross-selling in todays environment? You must be kidding. I have enough trouble holding on to what I have. If thats your reaction, its understandable. After all, businesses are cutting back on expenses; and, as you well know, in-house legal departments are not immune. These departments are feeling the pinch in terms of reductions in salary increases, greater control over headcount, and retention of more work in-house rather than awarding it to outside counsel.
Career Journal: Marketings Greater Impact During the Great RecessionIn 2009, the investments that so many had encouraged their respective firms to make actually started to pay some dividends.
Media & Communcations Corner: Alleviating Client Fatigue Caused by Legal DirectoriesThe process of positioning lawyers and law firms for potential rankings all in an effort to boost their stature in a keenly competitive legal market, of course may impair the relationships with the very clients they hope to impress.
Beware the 'Unworthy Client'Times are hard all over and law firms are all under pressure to boost revenue. You may be tempted to lower your standards for client intake in difficult times. Resist the temptation. About a third of all claims against law firms and a much greater percentage of the very largest claims result from taking on "unworthy clients."
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