Law Firm Management

  • The New Legal Workplace

    The speed and shape of the American economic recovery is a matter of great debate. What is not up for speculation is the dramatic effect the downturn had on all businesses, including the legal industry. Workers and managers alike are struggling to figure out what will be expected from them in the coming business quarters, and how to deliver on these expectations. Here are three highlights for legal professionals which just may make the difference between being in the black or in the red.

    June 30, 2010Paul Silverman

  • TACTICS FOR ENGAGEMENT

    TACTICS FOR ENGAGEMENT - Generating New Business What are your strategies for engaging with prospects? How do you improve law selling? Recently, I participated in a brainstorming session with a group of attorneys - some in-house counsel, some outside counsel. the focus of the session was on how to improve law selling. Even though the attorneys represented different areas, they all agreed on which legal marketing tactics were the most effective. As a business develoment consultant, I…

    June 28, 2010allan colman , www.closersgroup.com

  • Client Speak: Client Feedback

    So what's the deliverable once you finally convince Firm Management and the designated Lead Partners to buy into a Client Feedback program focused ' at least initially ' on its Tier 1 or key clients?

    June 24, 2010Donald E. Aronson

  • Hiring a Web Site Developer: Top 10 Tips

    Whether your firm is redesigning its existing Web site or creating its first site, hiring a developer can be an expensive and time-consuming undertaking. To make your redesign/development experience rewarding and to avoid misunderstandings, outline the scope of your project before obtaining proposals from Web site design firms.

    June 21, 2010Nancy Roberts Linder

  • Conducting an Effective and Preventative Compensation Review

    With the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the EEOC's and OFCCP's increased focus on compensation discrimination, and the government's increased budget for these agencies, compensation decisions are destined to come under increased scrutiny from employees, their attorneys and the government.

    June 21, 2010Patricia Anderson Pryor

  • The Changing Role of the General Counsel

    One of the major changes of the recession is how the boundaries of the client-lawyer relationship has been redrawn ' the power now firmly lies with the client as the status of general counsel within their own organization continues to grow.

    June 18, 2010Bryan Hughes

  • Movers & Shakers

    Who's going where; who's doing what.

    June 18, 2010ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

  • Defining Project Management for e-Discovery Success

    The practice of project management in e-discovery has traditionally been loosely defined, with significant variation in the application of the fundamentals and the people performing these services. In some cases, the individual taking a project management role on a case is an attorney or paralegal, while in others it's the e-discovery services provider's account manager. Some project managers come from IT or document management roles. Within any given case, multiple "project managers" may work together, each applying their own set of practices and procedures.

    May 27, 2010Christopher Wilen

  • Balancing People and Processes with Technology in e-Discovery

    In many instances and in many sectors, technology is looked to as the savior, since it's easy to simply focus on the "bright, shiny object" that will quickly and painlessly fix the problem at hand. The same is true in the legal industry when it comes to litigation and e-discovery. Unfortunately, technology is only part of the equation, unable to deliver the promised value without the inclusion of the equally important pillars of people and processes. While many recognize this as a truism, they nevertheless forget (or underemphasize) the importance of the other factors ' much to their detriment.

    May 27, 2010Dean Gonsowski