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While law firms are increasingly modeling their business practices after their clients', one they have not been interested in mimicking is the accrual method of accounting. But it may be coming.
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A look at "personal gamification" ' how you can create stronger personal motivation and resiliency by drawing on some basic game principles.
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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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Executed properly, an effective interview is an outstanding approach to strengthening a firm's relationship with a particular client.
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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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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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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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Following a nearly two-year investigation that began as Dewey & 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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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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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.