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Orion Prebill Survey Shows Law Firms Are Troubled by Inefficient, Paper-Heavy Prebilling Processes Image

Orion Prebill Survey Shows Law Firms Are Troubled by Inefficient, Paper-Heavy Prebilling Processes

Kevin Harris

Prebilling, the process of generating invoice drafts and circulating them for annotation/adjustment, is one of the most important monthly tasks a law firm conducts. Since prebilling involves bringing money into the firm, the more efficient the process becomes, the better off the law firm is financially.

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Best Ways to Expand Key Client Relationships from the Lawyers' and Firms' Perspectives Image

Best Ways to Expand Key Client Relationships from the Lawyers' and Firms' Perspectives

Julie Savarino

Part One of a Two-Part Article This article defines the specific and best actions lawyers and law firms can take to expand client relationships. This first part includes specific actions individual lawyers can take to expand client relationships.

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Clients Drive Information Governance: Business Benefits Flow to Firm Image

Clients Drive Information Governance: Business Benefits Flow to Firm

Stephen Cole

Information governance and the protection of corporate data are top concerns for law firms. To ensure standards are met, some clients are now tying payment to compliance with Outside Counsel Guidelines (OCG). OCG have moved from guidelines to actual contracts that provide for indemnification of the client for cyber breach and violation of privacy laws.

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Sales Speak: Overcoming the Doer-Seller Dilemma Image

Sales Speak: Overcoming the Doer-Seller Dilemma

Debra Baker

<b><i>Rethinking Sales As an Act of Service</b></i><p>Lawyers are one of only a handful of professionals whose job requires them both to do the work and generate the business. This “Doer-Seller” Dilemma is particularly vexing for lawyers because of a long-held belief that sales is somehow beneath the legal profession and because lawyers have a limited view of what successful selling looks like.

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Creating a Culture of Intelligence

Patricia Ellard

We hear about the ongoing cost pressures clients face, which force in-house counsel to do more with less, and the pressures on outside counsel to provide greater efficiencies and cost predictability. We also hear that clients hate to be cross-sold. However, this does not mean that clients are not interested to be introduced to new colleagues who can provide insight.

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Why Should Law Firm CMOs Care About Social Responsibility and Sustainability? Image

Why Should Law Firm CMOs Care About Social Responsibility and Sustainability?

Pamela Cone

<b><i>Because Clients Do</b></i><p>Given the increasing challenges facing our planet and our society, and considering our role in creating the current state of affairs, it is up to us to change the way we do business to slow and reverse the damage. CMOs can and should be among the leadership voices to help their firms recognize this as an obligation and an opportunity.

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Key Tax and Financial Considerations for New Law Partners Image

Key Tax and Financial Considerations for New Law Partners

John Fitzgerald & Christopher Imperiale

Being asked to join the partnership of a firm is a measure of success as a legal professional. With that achievement comes tax and financial responsibilities that, surprisingly, few attorneys are fully prepared to deal with. These responsibilities include the unexpected individual federal and state and local tax filing and payments.

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Five Ways to Maximize Marketing Efforts

Richard Bracken

With every request for external exposure, there is also an assumption that one effort of marketing will result in millions in new revenue. Yet, we all know that the responsibility to implement all marketing initiatives is on the lawyers.

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Marketing Tech: Why Should Marketers Care About the Blockchain? Image

Marketing Tech: Why Should Marketers Care About the Blockchain?

Deborah Dobson

Technology is playing an ever-increasing role in our lives, personally and professionally. One of the emerging technologies that has caught my eye is blockchain.

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Work Opportunity Tax Credit and On-Boarding Image

Work Opportunity Tax Credit and On-Boarding

Lawrence L. Bell

With the cost of doing business consistently on the rise combined with the increasing difficulty to find/retain great employees, there is no better time to pursue employment-based tax credits. There are both federal and state employment-based credits available that can help businesses offset income tax liability.

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