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How to Survive a Pension Plan Audit

K. Jennie Kinnevy

This article provides key information on the most frequent problems found with pension plans during employee benefit plan audits, and how you can self-audit your plan for possible compliance issues and options you have to correct them.

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Professional Development: The Foundation for Success -- Your Brain Strategy

Paul Silverman

Here are some tips to use your brain more productively.

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Media & Communications: What's the Deal with That?

David McCann

Is your firm delivering on its promises? What "Seinfeld" can teach you.

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Leadership in the Law: Technology: Friend, Enemy or Frenemy?

Timothy B. Corcoran

Willingly or unwillingly, lawyers simply must overcome their resistance to the adoption of tools and technology in the legal practice. Here's why.

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The Business of Branding: The Brand Behind Business Development

Jeff Roberts

Instead of placing print advertisements or other "throwaway" media forms, marketers are training their attorneys to be brand ambassadors and teaching them how to share stories about the value their firms deliver, thereby raising the firm's brand awareness.

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Thinking Inside the Box

Adam Severson

This article discusses an implementation framework that provides deliberate, strategic planning steps to ensure the successful implementation of your next big idea.

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BYOD on the Rise at Law Firms

Jonathan Lieberman

Cloud computing has spawned a rise in companies encouraging employees to "bring your own device" (BYOD) to work, and it's a trend on the rise at law firms. So what exactly is it?

Columns & Departments

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At the Intersection: Loneliness at the Top

Pamela Woldow

Beginning with this issue, we are proud to present a new column written by one of the premier law firm experts, Pamela Woldow, Esq.

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CLOSING MORE SALES

Allan Colman

Focus on business development activities with the most impact.

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Taming the Beast

Laurie Fischer, Heather Yanak

Corporate law departments acknowledge the need to manage and control the unabated and explosive growth of digital information, yet understand that the traditional approach will not work.

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