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Start 2024 By Embracing the Synergy Between Retirements and Succession Planning Image

Start 2024 By Embracing the Synergy Between Retirements and Succession Planning

Sharon Meit Abrahams

Attorneys retiring and succession planning are critical issues are often overlooked at the management level of law firms. A key question arises: What should come first, retirement or succession planning? Although they go hand in hand, many firms avoid addressing both.

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Nurture Your Clients To Develop, and Deepen, Relationships Image

Nurture Your Clients To Develop, and Deepen, Relationships

Yuliya LaRoe

Business development is, first and foremost, about people and your relationships with these people. While marketing and visibility activities (speaking, writing, etc.) are critical, it's the people who ultimately make the hiring decisions. As a lawyer, while time is rarely on your side, developing your Nurture System will help you strengthen and deepen your important relationships in ways that are sustainable and effective.

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Advantages and Limitations of a Two-Tier Partnership Structure Image

Advantages and Limitations of a Two-Tier Partnership Structure

Miten Shah

The two-tier partnership structure has gained wider acceptance as a key tool for increasing profitability, as well as talent acquisition and retention. Let's explore how this model is reshaping law firm dynamics, offering new opportunities and challenges in the war for legal talent.

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How Legal Finance Can Bridge Risk Gaps and Support Growth Image

How Legal Finance Can Bridge Risk Gaps and Support Growth

G. Andrew Lundberg

Like a threaded coupling or an electrical converter that allows non-matching mechanical or electrical components to be joined seamlessly together, legal finance can be the "adapter" that brings together lawyers with compatible talents but different economic outlooks and comfort levels.

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Experience Management: Selecting Best of Breed Solutions for Better Business Outcomes Image

Experience Management: Selecting Best of Breed Solutions for Better Business Outcomes

Jason Noble

Experience management is vital not only in terms of raw time savings and cost efficiencies but is pivotal in the firm's ability to win new business.

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Want to Get Your Attorneys More Engaged? Get Them In the Office Image

Want to Get Your Attorneys More Engaged? Get Them In the Office

AshLea Allberry

Law firm leaders are increasingly concerned with lack of engagement. With law firm demand down and office attendance policies in flux, many firms don't believe their workforce is optimally motivated and are struggling with disengagement. The concern is that psychological investment changes when professionals don't see co-workers in the office, making it easier to develop distance, and disconnect.

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What Law Firm Bus Dev Teams Can Learn from the Fortune 500 Image

What Law Firm Bus Dev Teams Can Learn from the Fortune 500

Joel Wirchin

Marketing and business development for law firms increasingly complex. As competition intensifies, RFPs and marketing output rise, and maintaining brand consistency across changing markets, regions and diverse work settings becomes a critical concern. It's time to think big.

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Cyberaccountants Offer a New Line of Defense Against Digital Disruption Image

Cyberaccountants Offer a New Line of Defense Against Digital Disruption

Sharon L. Levin & Bruce DeGrazia

As cybercrime intensifies, it is revealing a skills shortfall among those who defend our financial infrastructure. It has become critically clear that we need to radically rethink the way we prepare our frontline defense to include more experts with both technical savvy and accounting expertise. In other words, we need an army of cyberaccountants.

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Law Firm Leadership: Beyond Coffee and Client Alerts: Strategizing Your Client Nurture System for Multidimensional Relationships Image

Law Firm Leadership: Beyond Coffee and Client Alerts: Strategizing Your Client Nurture System for Multidimensional Relationships

Yuliya LaRoe

Business development is, first and foremost, about people and your relationships with these people. While marketing and visibility activities (speaking, writing, etc.) are critical, it's the people who ultimately make the hiring decisions. As a lawyer, while time is rarely on your side, developing your Nurture System will help you strengthen and deepen your important relationships in ways that are sustainable and effective.

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Billable Hours Frustrate In-House Attorneys, So Why Aren't They Demanding Alternatives? Image

Billable Hours Frustrate In-House Attorneys, So Why Aren't They Demanding Alternatives?

Hugo Guzman

Alternative-fee arrangements help establish a link between outside counsel costs and the value provided.. Yet, adoption of AFAs remains sluggish — even as outrage over outside counsel hourly rate increases grows.

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