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Profitability Analysis: The First Steps

Donald J. Kondub

If your firm has a number of legal departments, how does one determine the profitability (or economic contribution) of each? Delving further into a specific department, how do you measure the profitability of a practice area?

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Project Management Software Empowers the Litigation Support Department

Laura Bandrowsky

The Practice Support Department has long recognized the importance of project management to promote cost-containment strategies and to ensure compliance with discovery requirements during the discovery phase of a litigation case. While the firm developed its own sophisticated project management database, the newly implemented iFramework software takes project management to a higher level.

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Movers & Shakers

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

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Movers & Shakers Image

Movers & Shakers

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

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

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The Sorcerer's Apprenticeship

Ida Abbott

Moving to an apprenticeship model holds great promise in helping young lawyers transition into practice and in helping firms show that their young associates can make valuable contributions to client service.

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A New Leadership Model Is Needed

Robert W. Denney

Even though there are signs that the economy is starting to recover, this recession will have a far great impact on the legal profession than any previous recession in the last 70 years. Here's why.

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Professional Development: Emerging Delivery Channel for Group Soft Skills Training

Paul Trout

Soft skills training is typically delivered live so that all may observe and learn from one another's body language. Interpretation of non-verbal cues is an important dimension in soft skills training. A look at three case studies.

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Law Firm Intelligence: The What, the Why and the How of Win/Loss Analysis

Shannon Sankstone

As the marketplace for legal services has become more and more competitive, law firms have hired business development professionals to develop targeted responses to RFPs. Is it working, though? Has the firm brought in more business, and has it capitalized on its success?

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The Place to Network: Go Get 'Em, Tigers!

Christy Burke

A lot of people seem to perceive networking as a shallow activity engaged in by lawyers who missed their calling as used-car salespeople. Not so!

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Two Smaller Firms with Marketing on Their Minds

Elizabeth Anne "Betiayn" Tursi

Last month, we highlighted the Top Five firms from The Fifth-Anniversary MLF 50. This month, Numbers Six and Seven from the Top 10 are featured. Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto and Pryor Cashman are profiled here as firms that literally "made a move" and used marketing in ways that increased their exposure and their business.

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