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Law Firm Profitability and Learning from the Past Image

Law Firm Profitability and Learning from the Past

J. Mark Santiago

Future partners will be identified, developed, and elected from the associate ranks, so they truly represent the future of the firm. Reducing the number of associates from which to choose future partners is a risky undertaking.

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Financial Strategies to Optimize Your Technology Spend Image

Financial Strategies to Optimize Your Technology Spend

Mike Henderson, Whitney Jones, & Bill Pitcairn

Uncertain and challenging markets are times when firms and organizations of all types conserve cash. If this can be achieved without cutting needed projects, equipment or services to ensure successful returns to the office, then this is clearly an ideal financial strategy.

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Despite Aggressive Rate Increases from Law Firms, Clients Have Room to Negotiate Image

Despite Aggressive Rate Increases from Law Firms, Clients Have Room to Negotiate

Andrew Maloney

Rate increases across the legal industry haven't been as big as the conventional wisdom implies, and clients have more room to negotiate than they probably realize.

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Embedded Finance Is Changing the Business of Law Image

Embedded Finance Is Changing the Business of Law

Kevin Gallagher

A revolution is underway in small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) banking and payments and will impact the way legal, accounting and other professional services firms manage their finances.

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What Hybrid Work Plans Are Working? Image

What Hybrid Work Plans Are Working?

Anthony Davies

Starting in late 2021, the drumbeat of "return-to-the-office" began and now — somewhere in the neighborhood of two years later of that — it begs the question: how are firms doing with their return-to-office? What programs — if any — have been successful?

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Strategies for Reining In Expenses During Down Market

Rob Mattern

What strategies can firms take to rein in expenses during a challenging, down market to avoid further layoffs? Look no further than the firm's back-office operations. This article provides a brief overview of five areas where your firm can not just "cut costs" but actually improve operations while doing so.

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What's Behind the Surge In Law Firms Launching Crisis Management Practices? Image

What's Behind the Surge In Law Firms Launching Crisis Management Practices?

Dave Poston

Over the last year or so, there has been a surge in law firms launching "crisis management" practice groups. Does this move reflect expanding relationships beyond one-off litigation matters? Is this just a collaboration and renaming or repackaging of existing attorney expertise and practices? Or is there something deeper going on?

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Expense Right-Sizing In a Challenging Economy Image

Expense Right-Sizing In a Challenging Economy

Rob Mattern

What strategies can law firms take to rein in expenses during a challenging, down market to avoid further layoffs? Look no further than the firm's back-office operations. This article presents a brief overview of five areas where your firm can not just "cut costs" but actually improve operations while doing so — this is expense "right-sizing."

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What Successful Hybrid Firms Are Doing Image

What Successful Hybrid Firms Are Doing

Anthony Davies

We are seeing is a variety of successful measures that are designed to help attorneys get what they want: a best-of-both worlds scenario where they keep some work-from-home and fold-in an opportunity to intentionally connect and collaborate with colleagues in the office.

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Improving Firm Profitability Through Contracts Image

Improving Firm Profitability Through Contracts

J. Mark Santiago

The best and most effective way to drive firm profitability is through influencing partner behavior. The best way to incent the partners is by linking their compensation clearly and directly to the achievement of the firm's business strategy.

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