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Is Your Firm Prepared for the 'Silver Tsunami'?
A Silver Tsunami of aging partners is threatening the legal profession. There's a way to higher ground.
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What In-House Counsel Need from Outside Counsel As Pandemic Landscape Shifts
The global COVID-19 pandemic forced lawyers — individuals whose relationships formerly depended upon firm handshakes and looking their clients directly in the eye — to build client trust through a tiny camera lens. Here's a Q&A with GCs to discuss what matters most to their companies when hiring outside counsel.
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Five Critical Elements of Business Development Success
While acquiring the skills necessary to develop business is certainly a life-long journey, here are five critical elements to consider from the outset.
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Building Successful Partnerships Requires Collaboration
Partnerships are relationships, ideally relationships built on trust and a common goal. Successful partnerships require all parties working together — working together to service a client fully, generate revenue and to build a business. This requires openness and coordination.
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Law Firms Try to Hold On to 2020 Savings
A once-in-a-lifetime pandemic caused once-in-a-lifetime expense reductions that could forever alter the business of law. After those cost savings fueled double-digit profit growth for many firms in 2020, don't be surprised if Big Law leaders try to make some of those gains stick.
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Utilizing Accountability Partners to Build Business
Attorneys can utilize accountability partners to fuel the advances one truly wants to make in their efforts to build books of business.
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Scorecards and Client Book Due Diligence Can Improve Lateral Hiring Performance
The lateral partner challenge is, essentially, a vetting challenge. And yet, few law firms take a strategic approach to vetting and hiring laterals.
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Pandemic Drives Law Firms and Clients to Common Ground on Pricing
The current circumstances are giving rise to conversations about pricing, and driving both sides of the law firm-client relationship to seek common ground — both in the form of tried-and-true alternative fee arrangements and those that reflect a more innovative approach.
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Following the Winding Business Development Road
We all know that business and business development will be different post-pandemic, and we are not sure how. This article discusses the trends that lawyers and firms should be tracking and how they should plan and execute when the future is murky.
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Media & Communications: What ALM Reporters and Editors Expect from Law Firms and PR Pros In 2021: Part I
Instead of sharing my insights, experience and opinions as a 20-year vet in legal public relations, I went directly to the source – the ALM Media editorial staff. Here is what they had to say about the impact of COVID-19 on the industry as a whole and what they want and expect from law firms and PR pros in 2021.
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