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<b><i>Professional Development:</i></b> I Created a LinkedIn Profile: Now What? Image

<b><i>Professional Development:</i></b> I Created a LinkedIn Profile: Now What?

Tracie Bedell & Mayumi Wille

LinkedIn has gained popularity as <I>the</I> social media tool for professional networking, and there are good reasons:. Here is what you need to know.

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<b><i>Marketing Tech:</i></b> The Compelling Case for Mobile Marketing Image

<b><i>Marketing Tech:</i></b> The Compelling Case for Mobile Marketing

Larry Bodine

Less than half of AmLaw 200 firms have mobile websites, but that may change soon. In January, Google started sending messages to web operators to "fix mobile usability issues."

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<b><i>Sales Speak:</i></b>Lawyers Are in the Relationship-Building Business, But Are They Connecting? Image

<b><i>Sales Speak:</i></b>Lawyers Are in the Relationship-Building Business, But Are They Connecting?

Kimberly Alford Rice

Some things appear to be so simple that we assume (dangerously) that everyone "gets it." But a significant number of lawyers either have no system ' formal or otherwise ' for getting and staying in touch with key people, or do a dismal job of staying connected.

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Lawyer, Code Thyself

Dan Lear

Chances are you don't need to be convinced of the merits of learning to program or, in the parlance of today's startup culture, learning "to code." You already understand not only the professional opportunities it opens but also how it empowers you to solve your own problems. As software disrupts industry after industry, the winners will be either those writing the code or those who understand enough about coding to organize others to do it.

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How to Change Law Firms at 60

Louie H. Castoria

Last year the readerI turned 60, and left the fine law firm that had been his home for 33 years, joining another fine firm in July. Here's how he did it.

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Addressing Value Challenges With Collaborative Workspaces

Karin S. Jenson & Clare Foley

Today's law firms face unprecedented challenges in a highly competitive and rapidly evolving marketplace. Corporate clients, under intense pressure to cut costs and increase efficiency within their own organizations, are no longer willing to simply pay an hourly rate for services rendered in good faith. They are unapologetic in demanding increased accountability and demonstrable value from the legal teams who represent them.

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Building a Star-Studded, Long-Tenured Marketing Team

Jennifer Johnson Scalzi

As we all know, setting and achieving goals in a professional services environment can be challenging due to the differences in marketing certain practice groups and in how one practice group may perceive success compared with another. Here's how to make it work.

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Coaching: A Shift in Law Firm Culture

Virginia Bianco-Mathis & William Schurgin

The essence of this coaching approach, and why it works in a law firm setting, is that the coaches are partners who are also the teachers within the firm. They are in a position to role model the very culture that a firm wishes to build.

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Trends in Enterprise Legal Management

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

In this roundtable conversation, Marcus Hartmann , General Counsel, RB (formerly known as Reckitt Benckiser) and Jason Parkman, CEO, Mitratech, discuss trends in enterprise legal management, the tools it provides users, and the increased controls brought to legal departments using this technology.

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Time Tracker by eBillity

Josh F. Young

For more than a decade we tracked our lawyers' time and generated bills using various iterations of Sage Timeslips, which ran on a backend server tucked away in our office. But over the last several years, we noticed Timeslips began to slow down. It reached the point that time tracking and billing, an unpleasant and time-consuming distraction at the best of times, became far more painful than it needed to be.

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