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Five Ways to Improve Lateral Recruitment Image

Five Ways to Improve Lateral Recruitment

Timothy B. Corcoran

Here are five ideas that law firm leaders can embrace to improve their own success rate at finding and integrating laterals into their firms.

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Voice of the Client: Client Interviews: Lessons Learned Image

Voice of the Client: Client Interviews: Lessons Learned

John D. Tuerck

Executed properly, an effective interview is an outstanding approach to strengthening a firm's relationship with a particular client.

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Media & Communication: Four Ways Online Video Can Benefit Your Web Presence Image

Media & Communication: Four Ways Online Video Can Benefit Your Web Presence

Fernando Ziemer

Several decades ago, marketers realized that motion pictures were a powerful medium to convey branded messages to their audiences. For a long time, film production was only accessible to large consumer-products companies with massive advertising budgets. This is no longer the case. Nearly two decades after the advent of the Internet, the playing field has finally been leveled.

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Social Media Scene: Success on Social Media Image

Social Media Scene: Success on Social Media

Stephan Hovnanian

You can use social media for collaboration, networking, learning, and of course, marketing. If you do the first three well, the fourth is actually more effective.

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'Glass Ceilings' and Women in Leadership Image

'Glass Ceilings' and Women in Leadership

Kathleen C. Peahl

In last month's issue, we presented a participants' exchange that followed ALFA International's October, 2013, Labor & Employment Practice Group Seminar on "glass ceilings." The conclusion herein shifts the focus to the state of women in leadership roles..

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<i>BREAKING NEWS:</i> Ex-Dewey Leaders Charged With Fraud, Theft Image

<i>BREAKING NEWS:</i> Ex-Dewey Leaders Charged With Fraud, Theft

Sara Randazzo, Brian Baxter, Julie Triedman & Christine Simmons

Following a nearly two-year investigation that began as Dewey &amp; LeBoeuf spiraled toward death, its former chairman, Steven Davis; its former executive director, Stephen DiCarmine; and its ex-chief financial officer, Joel Sanders, were accused on March 6 of "concocting and overseeing a massive effort to cook the books" at the firm.

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The Ethical Boundaries of Attorney Whistleblowers Image

The Ethical Boundaries of Attorney Whistleblowers

Lawrence S. Spiegel & Esther E. Bloustein

In recent years, federal legislation has encouraged attorneys to become whistleblowers. These rules are in tension with the lawyer's duties of confidentiality and avoiding conflicts predicated on attorney self-interest because they allow disclosure of client confidential information more broadly than do applicable ethics rules.

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Managing Partners and 'Gamification' Image

Managing Partners and 'Gamification'

Pamela Woldow

Many managing partners tell us they are struggling to get their arms around new tools and techniques for driving more efficiency and cost-effectiveness into legal service delivery. Firms are seeing more and more RFPs in which clients make increasingly draconian demands for better management and control of legal work. AFAs (alternative fee arrangements) are reshaping not just pricing and profitability, but the whole way in which matters are staffed and billed.

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Collaborating in The Cloud Image

Collaborating in The Cloud

Sue Hughes

One of the great advantages of working with files in a cloud drive is sharing documents with other reviewers/authors in real time. Real time is the actual time during which reviewers are making changes to the document. This can be accomplished with all reviewers working in a Web App.

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Revenue

Michael Goldman

When is a sale a sale? This question is much more than semantics or a deep philosophical debate that college accounting majors have over a nice cold keg of Mountain Dew. Many an executive or business owner has gone to jail over this issue.

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