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Your Elevator Pitch
From our estimates, we will all meet approximately 830 new people in 2014. Of those, 707 of them will ask you this question: "What do you do?" Your response and the tone of your reply will dictate the direction, scope, connection and possibility of an ongoing business relationship with these new acquaintances. The elevator pitch is the first volley you serve across the net to develop a new business venture.
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Understanding Your Firm's Culture
A systematic approach to successfully managing cultural change as a firm pursues its strategic goals.
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Brace for Rising Rents
Jones Lang LaSalle's annual Law Firm Perspective reveals that the days of tenants having the upper hand in lease negotiations are on the way out.
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At the Intersection: A Practical Slant on LPM Implementation
Some practical lessons for creating, launching and institutionalizing this practical case management approach across the firm.
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Partner Compensation
Objective financial factors are easy to measure ' but they should not be the only considerations in determining partner compensation.
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LinkedIn Post Likely Didn't Violate Non-Compete Clause
A LinkedIn profile update alerting a user's contacts about her new job did not necessarily constitute a solicitation of business that ran afoul of her non-compete agreement, a Massachusetts trial judge has ruled.
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Improving e-Discovery in Global Enterprises Through Remote Data Collection
While the document review aspect of the discovery process generally receives the majority of attention because of the expense and time involved, the collection of potentially responsive electronically stored information (ESI) can also represent a major expense and logistical challenge.
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Attorney-Client Privilege for In-House Counsel
The concept of the attorney-client privilege seems pretty straightforward in, for example, a criminal case. However, as any in-house attorney knows, this concept becomes pretty murky when applied to attorneys working inside entities: Who is the client? Which attorneys are covered? Are those attorneys always covered? Which communications? With whom? On what subjects? The questions are endless and the situations are complex.
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The 'Silly Season'
Almost 30 years ago when I began my career consulting to law firms, the then managing partner of Donovan Leisure Newton & Irving used that term to refer to the months of October through December. It was his way of pointing out to his fellow partners that the necessary activities of practice management that so many of them had avoided for the first nine or 10 months of the year now had to be addressed.
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<i>Case Study</i> Solomon Ward Cuts through the Noise with AccessData Technology
AccessData's interoperable e-discovery, mobile device discovery and forensic analysis applications collect from nearly any data source and cull case data for highly targeted review. This platform addresses all phases of the e-discovery life cycle and with these tools in place, we offer effective and expedient e-discovery services to our clients while passing the resultant cost savings on to them.
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