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Marketing Tech: Embracing IoT and Big Data Means Future Success Image

Marketing Tech: Embracing IoT and Big Data Means Future Success

Karen Ellis

These days, we are continually being bombarded by one new tech concept after another ' the most current being IoT (or the Internet of Things) and Big Data. To feel secure moving our businesses forward among the onslaught of all these changes, it is necessary to simplify our understanding to bring peace to the progress of our quickly advancing world.

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Social Media Scene: Free LinkedIn Publicity for Your Firm Image

Social Media Scene: Free LinkedIn Publicity for Your Firm

Spencer X. Smith

There's a little-known way for leveraging LinkedIn to inform your entire network of what your are doing, and, as a result, garner free publicity for your firm. Here's how to gain free publicity.

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Insurance Limited Partnerships As an Alternate Estate Planning Tool

Lawrence L. Bell

Valuation discounts in estate planning has permitted the transfer of assets from one generation to another in an economically efficient manner. Two of the various discount methods claim lack of control (minority interest discount) and lack of marketability. The IRS has traditionally objected to these approaches in intra-family transfers, while Congress has attempted to legislate away these "loopholes" unsuccessfully and the Treasury Department is contemplating new regulations to accomplish this goal.

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Media & Communications: Upgrade Your PR Game!

Lauren Gard

Admit it: You've been doing the same thing for too long in an attempt to get your firm in the news. And it's just not working anymore. Below are five ways to be more effective in 2016.

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Breaking Bad: The Pitfalls of Using Research and How to Avoid Them Image

Breaking Bad: The Pitfalls of Using Research and How to Avoid Them

Marci Borgal Shunk

This article enumerates the most common pitfalls in any research study to help you ensure the information you and your firm rely on is the best available, and used properly.

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Your Billing Process Is Wrong 'Time to Fix It! Image

Your Billing Process Is Wrong 'Time to Fix It!

Wayne Nykyforchyn

It's hard to find a process more critical to the lifeblood of a law firm than its invoicing. Getting paid quickly and fully for professional services rendered is what keeps the lights on. It is what enables firms to grow, attract the best attorneys and serve the interests of more clients.

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Break Down the Silos and Lead Your Firm's Information Services From the Data Image

Break Down the Silos and Lead Your Firm's Information Services From the Data

Donna Terjesen

Law firms are metrics-driven organizations, and the need for accurate metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) will only continue to increase as law firms answer the client's demands to re-tool service delivery and organizational structure. This need for metrics-driven analysis now extends to the firms' research services, a heretofore last bastion of resistance to technology and measurement.

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<i><b>At the Intersection</i></b>Manterruption Redux Image

<i><b>At the Intersection</i></b>Manterruption Redux

Pamela Woldow & Doug Richardson

Last August and September, we published a two-part article on the phenomenon called "manterruption." We commented on some important social research discussing men's pervasive tendency to interrupt women in group meetings or settings where the power stakes were high ("manterruption") and to appropriate women's ideas as their own ("bropropriation"). These posts triggered a torrent of response, some of which was gratifying to us and some of which was pretty bewildering.

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Cost Recovery in 2016

Rob Mattern

2016 is in full swing and we will soon be conducting the 2016 Mattern &amp; Associates Cost Recovery Survey. We've been conducting this bi-annual survey since 2004 and, during that time, it has become an industry resource for tracking the cost recovery practices of law firms across size and geography.

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Prioritizing e-Mail Security in the Legal Sector Image

Prioritizing e-Mail Security in the Legal Sector

Mounil Patel

Data breaches and cyberattacks aren't new occurrences, but it can sometimes feel like they are. It's only in the last few years that we've seen these attacks make headlines more and more, increasing in both quantity and impact.

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