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Law Firm Marketing Community Loses One of Its Brightest Stars
Visionary. Leader. Mentor. Friend. It is with profound sadness that, as Editor-in-Chief of Marketing the Law Firm, I announce the passing of our esteemed Editorial Board member, colleague and friend, Jay M. Jaffe. Jay was a true visionary whose instincts and thought leadership about legal marketing earned him the reputation as an industry pioneer and one of our country's foremost trusted legal advisers. …
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Are You a Marketing Commitment Phobe?
Are your business development mindset, attitude and efforts working for you? Tips on overcoming your "marketing commitment phobia."
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Dewey & Leboeuf Partner Contribution Settlement Agreements Seek to Avoid the Long and Winding Road of Law Firm Bankruptcies
This article explores the process by which the key parties-in-interest in this case successfully negotiated the Partner Contribution Settlements or PCPs, the rationale behind Bankruptcy Judge Glenn's approval of the PCPs, as well as some of the issues that the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York is currently considering on appeal.
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The 'Unfinished Business' of Failed Law Firms
Recently, two New York federal district courts reached conflicting decisions in the Coudert Brothers LLP and Thelen LLP bankruptcy cases with respect to a law firm's purported ownership interest in future profits from its former clients' matters pending on the date of the law firm's dissolution, or "unfinished business.
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Traditional Cost Recovery
The firestorm of publicity regarding clients pushing back and refusing to pay for certain fees, and especially soft costs, begs the question: Is the traditional cost recovery model dying or perhaps already dead? The answer is no.
2013 - How Many Law Firms Will Survive?
2013 - How Many Law Firms Will Survive? Only one in eight firms have strategic plans, according to a recent ALM Intelligence survey and many don't have the skills and staff to implement them. This is a troubling if not alarming statistic for nearly three quarters of the country's law partners and management. Is it keeping them up at night? How many of those firms will survive the next five years?…
DO YOU GIVE SAMPLES?
Every so often, in a particular area of a professional practice, somebody gets the bright idea to give samples ' to give a half hour of free advice as a way to entice a prospective client to ask for more. Two questions arise. Is it ethical? Is it good marketing?
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The Magnificent 25
Many mid-size firms have been growing, aggressively. And, from the creative submissions we received, it is clear why.
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Pinning Your Company's Hopes on Pinterest
Heralded as the next big thing in social media, Pinterest presents new legal risks for companies engaged in social media marketing. By sharing images and encouraging others to re-pin them, Pinterest users may inadvertently engage in copyright or trademark infringement, violate licensing agreements, or run afoul of FTC rules for commercial endorsements.
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The Future in Law Firm Technology
As technology has evolved and we've gone from proprietary systems to open ones with standard data types, access to data is much easier. In fact, today's challenge is not accessing information, it's deciding what to access and what to do with it.
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