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Partner Defections, Mergers and the Changing Business Model for Law Firms
Partner defection appears to be caused as much by poor management and professional development offerings, as it does an increase in compensation.
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Speaking Engagements for Attorneys
Do you want to be considered a thought leader in your field? What law firms need to do is expose their expertise and practice groups to new prospects for their services.
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Leadership: Raising Your Persuasion Quotient
What's your Persuasion Quotient (PQ)? How skilled are you at persuasion? How can you improve your persuasion skills?
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Chaotic Case-by-Case Project Management
Across the nation, there exists a relatively untested notion that the only approach to e-discovery is case-by-case ' that every unique case requires an equally unique approach to discovery. While this phenomenon is a natural component of any industry seeking standardization, the unfortunate byproduct can be seen when organizations incur great costs to marry pre-existing on-premise solutions with whatever contracted-for solution is required to react to the case that came down the pipe today.
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Three Magic Words
To be successful in generating new business and attracting new clients, it is essential to speak the language of your target clients. Furthermore, lawyers should actually use the words that clients want to hear.
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Enhance Your Firm's Compensation System
A list of compensation criteria that are considered by most firms when setting partner compensation.
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Professional Development: Black Women Attorneys
As law firms face the exodus of its Black women attorneys in unprecedented numbers, leadership of large law firms are faced with the challenge of reversing the trend and repairing the damage.
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Marketing Tech: Are Content Analytics the Next Big Thing?
It is no surprise that technology vendors are starting to develop software that crunches a variety of statistics in order to spit out metrics that law firm marketers can use to benchmark their success.
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How Torys Updated Its Intake Processes and Systems
In 2008 we began actively looking for a new system that would allow our lawyers and staff to easily enter all of the required pieces of information about potential new clients. We wanted a system that could create a central repository for that information and integrate seamlessly with our financial and document management systems. CorpIntake has helped us to dramatically cut down the amount of time it takes to open new matters, comply with regulations and keep all of our information in a central location.
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