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<b><i>Voice of the Client:</i></b> Business Development Program Best Practices: Business Intelligence Image

<b><i>Voice of the Client:</i></b> Business Development Program Best Practices: Business Intelligence

Bruce Alltop

Law firms are ever-so-slowly starting to incorporate "key account planning," a critical element in any successful strategic go-to-market strategy and/or best-in-class business development program is "business intelligence."

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Get a (Law) Firm Grip on Data Breaches

David Ray & Reggie Pool

This article describes some of the reasons law firms are cyber-attack targets, steps they can take to reduce their risk, and what clients are doing to encourage law firms in those efforts.

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Law Firm 3.0: Information Changing Law Firm Models

Hank Grezlak & Gina Passarella

The standard law firm model that has been in effect for the better part of the last 20 years is becoming less viable and the way law firms are run is undergoing a subtle, yet significant change, driven largely by information.

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How to Successfully Integrate Lateral Partners

Eric Dewey

There are two ways lateral partner recruiting can grow the revenues of a law firm. The first is through the acquisition of additional client relationships brought to the firm by the lateral partner. The second is the added work generated by the lateral partner serving more of the legal needs of the firm's existing clientele.

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Law Firm 3.0: Information Changing Law Firm Models Image

Law Firm 3.0: Information Changing Law Firm Models

Hank Grezlak & Gina Passarella

The standard law firm model that has been in effect for the better part of the last 20 years is becoming less viable and the way law firms are run is undergoing a subtle, yet significant change, driven largely by information.

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Stay Out of My Sandbox!

David McCann

The so-called "silo mentality" has come to be defined as an attitude found in many organizations that occurs when several departments or groups do not actively share information or knowledge with others within the same company and have little to no understanding of what the others are doing.

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Ex-Dewey Partners Asked to Forgo Half of Salary; Backdate Checks Image

Ex-Dewey Partners Asked to Forgo Half of Salary; Backdate Checks

Nell Gluckman & Julie Triedman

Jurors at the criminal trial of three former Dewey &amp; LeBoeuf executives facing fraud and conspiracy charges heard vivid descriptions of some of the drama that precipitated the firm's bankruptcy filing in May 2012 from former litigation partner Ralph Ferrara, whose testimony continued late last month.

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Brokerage Windows in Retirement Plans

Andrew L. Oringer, Andrew H. Braid & Aaron S. Cha

The request for information (RFI) regarding the use of so-called "brokerage windows" is one of the more recent developments surrounding what has become an increasingly controversial topic regarding the investment of Section 401(k) plans and other participant-direct retirement plans.

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Building a Vendor Management Program

Tim Strong

For law departments, today's business environment is making it increasingly difficult to manage, control or reduce costs while being able to achieve satisfactory results. This is forcing companies to become more efficient in managing and controlling legal costs handled both internally by the organization and externally by outside counsel.

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<b><i>BREAKING NEWS:</b></i> High Court Revives Religious Bias Case Against Abercrombie Image

<b><i>BREAKING NEWS:</b></i> High Court Revives Religious Bias Case Against Abercrombie

Zoe Tillman & Marcia Coyle

The U.S. Supreme Court on June 1 revived a discrimination lawsuit that accused Abercrombie &amp; Fitch Co. of refusing to hire a Muslim woman because she wore a religious headscarf.

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