Features
Jeff Roberts
Your firm's website is the single most important component in its marketing communications efforts. Period. It's the lynchpin on which all of your other mar/com efforts rest, it's your "first impression," your opportunity to communicate with targeted clients on a regular basis via blogs, and hopefully it supports your firm's business development efforts.
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Nicholas Gaffney
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Kathleen C. Peahl
This wide-ranging discussion, originally presented at a seminar, introduced statistics suggesting that women still are not reaching the highest level of leadership in law firms and Fortune 500, as compared with their male counterparts.
Features
Karen Sloan
Nearly 20% of the firms included in <I>The National Law Journal's</I> annual survey of large law firm billing rates last year had at least one partner charging more than $1,000 an hour.
Columns & Departments
ALM Staff
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Law Journal Newsletters
Who's doing what; who's going where
Features
Rob Mattern
Here we are in 2014, the number of law firms outsourcing parts of their back-office is increasing and more and more firms are interested in the process as a way to control costs and increase the efficiencies in their back office operation. Why the change? To explain it fully requires one to look at the evolution of the process.
Allan Colman
What is the top skill for career professionals in climbing the corporate ladder? It is the ability to sell your ideas and funding requests.
Features
Sherry Karabin
From hardware to software, change is the rule and attorneys who don't want their offices or firms to be a casualty of advancing technology need to be proactive.
Features
Ed Poll
One of the thorniest issues in selling a law practice involves the issue of goodwill and how to value it. Goodwill is both an accounting term and a qualitative dimension. Understanding both helps the average lawyer better understand the sale of a law practice.
Features
Fernando Schreiner
It's a challenge for many lawyers to find the time to understand the financial side of their practices. At Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, financial education has become a priority. When our lawyers became better equipped to understand the economics of their practices, our firm was able to sustain growth and increase efficiency as well as improve client service across the board.
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Paul Kehoe
Amidst a workforce characterized by rapidly changing demographics, employers and employees are faced with many challenges, including providing a workplace free from harassment and discrimination.
