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  Financial Milestones on the Path from New Associate to Retiree
A rundown of the top items lawyers should have on their financial checklists, based on their career stage.
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  Unmasking the Impostor Syndrome
Many talented lawyers shortchange themselves and their law firms by failing to implement a strategic business development plan. Some claim that they don't have time to market while others lament that marketing doesn't work — for them. While these and a variety of other excuses are common, it may be productive to dig a little deeper to determine whether other factors are at play.
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  Active Listening Wins Clients
All too often, we read studies, which report clients' pet peeve with their services providers whom do not listening to them. Or, cited another way, clients…
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  Legal Tech: Stop, Collaborate and Listen -- Collaboration Tools Are a Brand New Invention
Today's workplaces require tools that enhance employee productivity and provide the flexibility to never miss a critical business opportunity. Organizations in other industries have already experienced the benefits of enterprise collaboration, and now this technology is making its way into the legal sector. The rise of enterprise collaboration is redefining the modern law firm and legal department.
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  'Cause We Are Living in a Digital World …
As with traditional branding, a digital brand is simply the perception individuals have of a business or organization online. Digital branding is a brand management technique that uses a combination of Internet branding and digital marketing to develop a brand over a range of digital venues, including Internet-based relationships, device-based applications and media. The objective is to establish and build trust with potential clients, especially while they are in the decision phase of the selection process.
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  Outsourcing the Back Office?
Outsourcing is supposed to be the new wave of the future that will fundamentally change the way that law firms provide services to their clients and partners. But is this so?
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  Law Firm Leaderships' Biggest Challenge: Equality of Outcome
<b><i>Aggressive Poaching In the Market Is Forcing Leadership to Contend With the Delicate Balance of Equality, Culture and Compensation In their Firms</b></i><p>Many leaders are no longer focused just on business development but are also trying to figure out how to continue making money and structure their firms in a way that allows them to spend the requisite money to pay top talent.
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  Sales Speak: Grow Your Clients: MLF's Challenge
As you approach your clients during the upcoming holidays and new year, think creatively. This Q&A with Aon COO Audrey Rubin provides more than a dozen examples of ways to add value and build stronger relationships with our clients. The <i>MLF</i> team challenges you to undertake one or two of these in your next go-to-market strategies.
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  Inside the New Tax Plan's Changes to Carried Interest
Phil Jelsma, a partner and chair of the tax practice team at a San Diego-based commercial real estate law firm talks about the changes to carried interest, how this will impact commercial real estate investment and what investors should do now to comply.
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  Voice of the Client: Chief Client Service, Experience and Value Officers in Law Firms
<b><i>Roles, Results & Roadblocks</b></i><p>An increasing number of the world's largest law firms are conducting business at such a scale that having a dedicated, full-time client service or experience officer adds significant value to the firms and their clients.
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