UPDATING CLIENT RETENTION TO ALIGN INTERESTS
UPDATING CLIENT RETENTION TO ALIGN INTERESTS - client retention relies on the relationships that you establish with current and prospective clients. In our business developoment seminars, we emphasize the importance of selling based on the client or prospect's needs rather than the size of your firm, the number of offices the firm has, or the awards that your firm has received. Successful law sales require a balance between the firm's responsibilities and in-house counsel's responsibility to…
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How Fulbright & Jaworski Transformed Its Document Review Process
As e-discovery practitioners, our goal is to make the process for our clients more manageable and as cost-effective as possible. We sought to automate and streamline the process through the application of strategic technology and well-developed workflows.
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Upgrading Microsoft Office and What It Means to Your Service Desk
With the worldwide release of Office 2010 in June, Microsoft has once again unleashed a frenzy of new software purchases ' and even more Office upgrades ' globally.
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Florida Law Firms Protest Bar's Online Ad Rules
While the ACLU and other nonprofit legal groups have been declared exempt from a strict proposal for regulating lawyer Web sites, Florida's largest law firms are starting to band together to protest the regulations, largely on First Amendment grounds.
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Policing Workplace e-Mail Use
On-the-job Internet surfing has become a problem that employers can no longer ignore. A recent Office of Inspector General investigation, for example, revealed that senior-level SEC staff, including an attorney, used their workplace computers to view online pornography for up to eight hours per day during the period of time that led this country's biggest economic meltdown since the Great Depression.
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Training for Lawyer Management
What <i>specifically</i> managing partners and members of management committees should do to coalesce their partners, associates and staff into a well-managed and informed organization, with all of the professional and administrative personnel working together to achieve the firm's immediate and long-term objectives.
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Valuable Lessons from This Great Recession
Despite posting profits in 2009, some firms still grapple with how to engender more rainmakers from their attorney pool to spread the business generation responsibility more evenly.
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10 Questions for Kim Eisler
Nick Gaffney, a partner at Infinite Public Relations in San Francisco, recently had an exclusive interview with Mr. Kim Eisler, author of "Masters of the Game: Inside the World's Most Powerful Law Firm."
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Announcing The Sixth Annual MLF 50
Criteria for selection in this highly coveted listing.
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Yes, We Can ' Raise Fees
Accept the fact that those clients who value your service regardless of higher fees will remain with you, while those clients who do not want to pay a higher fee will seek other counsel.
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