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The RED ZONE - Selecting Outside Firms
June 11, 2007
CLIENT CO-MARKETING – How do you get to the highly valued position of co-marketing with your client? Let's start with basic selling 101 – Ask For The Order. Who usually asks for the order first? If you really think about it, it is probably the client, not the law firm. How often have you been asked to: * “take a table.” * Provide a silent auction item. * Sponsor a golf hole in a charity tournament? * Offer a summer associate position to a client's daughter? * Donate to the client's law school fund drive?Corporate clients believe this is a fair trade when giving your firm significant business. And as long as the requests are reasonable, they'll keep asking you. But wait a minute; aren't these the same things you want to ask your client? Our next installment will begin to discuss what your corporate clients will appreciate.
CLIENT CO-MARKETING – How do you get to the highly valued position of co-marketing with your client? Let's start with basic selling 101 – Ask For The Order. Who usually asks for the order first? If you really think about it, it is probably the client, not the law firm. How often have you been asked to: * “take a table.” * Provide a silent auction item. * Sponsor a golf hole in a charity tournament? * Offer a summer associate position to a client's daughter? * Donate to the client's law school fund drive?Corporate clients believe this is a fair trade when giving your firm significant business. And as long as the requests are reasonable, they'll keep asking you. But wait a minute; aren't these the same things you want to ask your client? Our next installment will begin to discuss what your corporate clients will appreciate.
The DOJ's Corporate Enforcement Policy: One Year Later
The DOJ's Criminal Division issued three declinations since the issuance of the revised CEP a year ago. Review of these cases gives insight into DOJ's implementation of the new policy in practice.
The DOJ's New Parameters for Evaluating Corporate Compliance Programs
The parameters set forth in the DOJ's memorandum have implications not only for the government's evaluation of compliance programs in the context of criminal charging decisions, but also for how defense counsel structure their conference-room advocacy seeking declinations or lesser sanctions in both criminal and civil investigations.
Use of Deferred Prosecution Agreements In White Collar Investigations
This article discusses the practical and policy reasons for the use of DPAs and NPAs in white-collar criminal investigations, and considers the NDAA's new reporting provision and its relationship with other efforts to enhance transparency in DOJ decision-making.
A Lawyer's System for Active Reading
Active reading comprises many daily tasks lawyers engage in, including highlighting, annotating, note taking, comparing and searching texts. It demands more than flipping or turning pages.
Bankruptcy Sales: Finding a Diamond In the Rough
There is no efficient market for the sale of bankruptcy assets. Inefficient markets yield a transactional drag, potentially dampening the ability of debtors and trustees to maximize value for creditors. This article identifies ways in which investors may more easily discover bankruptcy asset sales.