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Using Feedback To Improve Team Performance Image

Using Feedback To Improve Team Performance

Mark Beese

The problem with giving feedback is that it often comes across as criticism. Human beings tend to react defensively, resulting in a denial of the feedback or worse, entrenchment in the behavior or attitude that may be derailing them in the first place. How can we give feedback in a way that minimizes defensiveness?

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Why Are Some Bills Easier to Collect Than Others?

Alex Geisler

Why do some people sail through the entire budgeting, billing and collection process, while for others collection always means trepidation?

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An Innovator's Approach to Hybrid: Empathy and Iteration Image

An Innovator's Approach to Hybrid: Empathy and Iteration

Alaa Pasha

This is a time of innovation, and one way law firms can prepare for a future we can't yet see is through leveraging two key levers: the need for empathy and iteration.

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Investing In Resources That Make a Law Firm Hum

Jennifer Johnson & Haley Revel

Firm leadership must think about their talent (and that means all their talent) differently than they do today: as a core business asset whose managed value can make or break the firm's success.

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Litigation Financing 2.0: Financing the Business of Law Image

Litigation Financing 2.0: Financing the Business of Law

Joshua Libling

It is not accidental that funding the creation or growth of law firms and practice groups has tended to follow a traditional path. Rather, this circumstance is a combination of traditional legal temperament and structural barriers to innovation. Recently, there have been changes to both.

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Conflict Strategies: Three Keys to an (Almost) Drama-Free 2023 for Your Law Firm Image

Conflict Strategies: Three Keys to an (Almost) Drama-Free 2023 for Your Law Firm

Susannah Margison

Office drama can be a big problem for law firms. Whether it is showing up as office gossip, the partner who is terrible to their associates and staff, two people who just cannot seem to get along, or a revolving door of lawyers or staff, drama can be distracting, hamper productivity, and reduce billable hours.

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How Attorneys Can Have Their (Hybrid) Cake and Eat It, Too Image

How Attorneys Can Have Their (Hybrid) Cake and Eat It, Too

AshLea Allberry

No one would have predicted hybrid operations — but hybrid is here to stay. Firms have a lot to gain in terms of creating a new culture that attorneys love but that new culture will be built on flexibility and dynamism only technology can manage.

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Amending (or Terminating) Deferred Compensation Plans Without Penalties Image

Amending (or Terminating) Deferred Compensation Plans Without Penalties

Lawrence L. Bell

This article reminds readers of §409A's draconian penalties and specific guidance of amending modifying, amending or terminating existing nonqualified deferred compensation plans.

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Meeting Client Expectations

Alex Geisler

The New Reality, for which law firms are scrambling to equip themselves, is that law firms no longer define their own service levels. Now it's the clients, and they have clear expectation parameters.

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The DOL and Benefit Planning for Independent Contractors

Lawrence L. Bell

The U.S. Department of Labor has proposed a rule that would make it more difficult for independent broker-dealers (IBDs), insurers, and other companies to treat professionals who want to flourish in the gig economy as independent contractors.

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