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<i>Leadership</i>: Law Firm Marketing and Sales Leadership
Helping a firm's marketing and sales team to perform at its peak is part of the role of an effective firm leader. There are two key areas where firm leadership may play an important role.
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<i>Professional Development</i>: Training Effectiveness
The best training programs produce desired behavior change in lawyers. If they were not comfortable with asking for new work before, now they are. If they never created a business development plan and followed it, now most of them will.
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Changing the Law Firm Business Model
Lawyers must understand the process by which they deliver a legal solution. That means they understand every task in the process and who should be performing those tasks, whether it is a partner, an associate, a paralegal, or another professional.
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Cost Savings As a Risk Management Strategy
Since the active use of the term <i>risk management</i>, perhaps sometime in the 1980s, I have thought of the confluence of <i>risk</i> and <i>management</i> as an oxymoron.
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Using IRA Funds to Purchase Life Insurance
Many individuals desire to acquire insurance on their lives using funds held in a qualified retirement plan. The acquisition of insurance using funds within an IRA is beneficial since the Plan uses tax deductible dollars to acquire the insurance. Furthermore, the Plan Funds are not otherwise being directly used by qualified plan participant (Participant) for the Participant.
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At the Intersection: Plugging Profitability Leaks
We've long known that vague, incomplete or misunderstood instructions from partners to associates is a prime source of profitability leaks ' revenue lost because of all the time spent on reinventing the wheel. We've also long known that an amazingly simple delegation improvement technique can help reduce write-downs of time by up to 18%.
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Sales Speak: Dancing with the Stars -- Client Retention
When you're working with clients, it is important to keep them happy and to remember to continue selling throughout the engagement. Here's why.
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Law 2023: A Look Ahead
The future of the legal industry isn't what it used to be. Or so says a recent report issued by Law2023.org, a group of industry insiders ' including the author' who spent a year studying the trajectory of the legal marketplace.
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Valuation of a Law Firm and a Law Practice
Lawyers leaving a law practice have an economic interest in monetizing their career-long investment in building a client portfolio and a referral network. How each lawyer has accomplished this depends on his or her particular practice, market and style. But while the means may vary, the results are the same ' access to clients who have legal needs. And this is the value the acquirers wish to capture.
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Case Notes
Discussion of a case in which a Texas law firm filed a defamation lawsuit over an ex-client's negative Yelp review.
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