Law Firm Management

  • Virgin Advantage from a New, Near-Shore Corporate Frontier

    With bona fides now suitably established, is it possible to actively leverage the USVI's fiber and bandwidth assets to deliver greater competitive and stakeholder advantage to the enterprise? Yes it is; an economic development program chartered in law by the USVI government, sanctioned under U.S. Treasury regulations and managed by the University of the Virgin Islands Research and Technology Park ("RTPark"), may be of particular interest to e-commerce and other knowledge-based businesses.

    June 29, 2009David Zumwalt

  • Movers & Shakers

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

    June 29, 2009ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

  • Best Practices in Client Relationship Skills

    There are key activities that lawyers can engage in to promote the health of existing client interactions. All of these activities can be categorized into one of three stages: 1) establishing the relationship; 2) building the relationship; and 3) proliferating the relationship.

    June 26, 2009Sharon Meit Abrahams

  • Client Speak: Is the Burden of AFA Here to Stay?

    The recent dramatic downturn has created something relatively unknown to law firms: the "insistent buyers' market" (or "ibm"), wherein all the pent-up frustrations of the past have suddenly found a voice and now have to be confronted and no longer ignored.

    June 26, 2009Donald E. Aronson

  • For Women in Law, 'Business Development Is Key'

    A recent survey of women in law firms found that ' unsurprisingly ' women are concentrated at the lower levels of law firms. That wasn't news to Elizabeth Anne "Betiayn" Tursi, who three years ago helped to found the Women In Law Empowerment Forum (WILEF), a lecture series that focuses on helping women become firm leaders.

    June 26, 2009Karen Sloan

  • Partial Plan Terminations

    Management teams should be aware that reductions in workforce ("RIFs"), while seemingly cost-cutting in nature, can actually yield the opposite result, and can cause unintended and costly consequences with respect to a firm's tax-qualified employee benefit plan.

    June 24, 2009Marcia S. Wagner

  • Ex-Heller Employees Sue Former Partners

    Former employees of Heller Ehrman sued at least 179 former partners in April, demanding they fork over $32 million for the largest group of creditors in the defunct firm's bankruptcy. This article discusses the suit.

    June 23, 2009Amanda Royal

  • JOHN WAYNE ON BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANTS

    JOHN WAYNE ON BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANTS - That great American philosopher, John Wayne, may have been speaking to his fellow cowboys when he said "Round 'em up and move 'em out", but he very well could have been talking to law marketers. After all, the three components of the cattle business. . . . GET 'EM - Find good cows and bring them back to your corral KEEP 'EM - Take care of the…

    June 15, 2009allan colman, www.closersgroup.com