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Improving Law Firm Profitability Without Working Longer Hours or Raising Rates

Last month, in Part One of this article, I discussed three major approaches to enhancing law firm profitability: expanding your client base; assertively managing billing, receivables and payables; and unbundling operating costs from bills for fees. Previously, in the August 2003 edition of this newsletter, I described a fourth major profitability approach: management of alternative billing strategies. This month's article concludes my overview of profitability improvement methods by summarizing 10 more techniques.

23 minute read November 01, 2003 at 02:48 PM
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Joel A. Rose
Improving Law Firm Profitability Without Working Longer Hours or Raising Rates

 

Last month, in Part One of this article, I discussed three major approaches to enhancing law firm profitability: expanding your client base; assertively managing billing, receivables and payables; and unbundling operating costs from bills for fees.

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