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Word File Types and Compatibility
This column addresses the new compatibility features of Microsoft Office Word 2013.
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How Not to Fail On Execution
According to the Gartner Group, 70% of outsourcing engagements fail and 90% do not meet their financial goals.
LEGAL MARKETING STRATEGY - 14 Steps from Handshake to Closing
Moving from the challenge of getting that first handshake to closing new business.
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Sales Speak: New Opportunities in the Legal Industry
Research over the past four years is showing a slow-moving upward trend of law firms hiring professional sales people. This trend spans all sizes of firms, from small to global.
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Media & Communications: New Ways to Provide Value
Business as usual is different now, and we're not going back to the "good" old days when the fa'ade of increasing billing rates masked a multitude of law firm management sins.
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Career Journal: Messaging New Marketing Concepts
Law firms have begun to recognize that segmenting their services can be a good thing and a legitimate business model to deploy.
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The 'Losing' Side of Legal Business Trends
Although happening slowly, project management and process improvement efforts are gradually improving the efficiency of U.S. legal practice, off-setting whatever demand growth the economy would otherwise have produced.
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Restrictive Covenants and Partnership Agreements
This article examines the ethics of common partnership restrictive covenants, and suggests ways for firms to ethically protect the firm's interests.
CREATING A STRATEGIC BUSINESS ROADMAP -
Beginning a series on what it takes to map out the future direction for each lead and opportunity.
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Alternative Fee Agreements
There have been a spate of reports the last few months on alternative fee agreements, or AFAs as they are also known. Subsequently these have stirred a tremendous amount of conversation in the industry. Some of the conversation is helpful, some of it is constructively critical, and some of it is quite simply confusing.
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