Following implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the funding and providing of promised retiree health benefits has a new series of requirements that must be met by Taft-Hartley retirement plans, employers and plan sponsors.
There's no one perfect solution for finding the right consultant, making a "good hire" and then effectively managing that resource, but there are a few guidelines that can, at least, set you on the right path.
Women lawyers will develop their practice and client development skills more effectively if they are mentored and championed by other women lawyers. Here's why.
The point of this article is not to determine exactly who should run a law firm, but to explore some factors worth considering when contemplating the most effective and efficient form of law firm leadership.
DANGERS OF NEGLECTING BUSINESS SAVVY In a recent business radio program interview, I was asked a series of questions about client development and retention. One was "WHAT ARE THE DANGERS OF AN EXPERT LAWYER NEGLECTING THEIR BUSINESS SAVVY?" According to our May, 2012 Closers Group U.S./Canada survey on Client Retention, 365 of the respondents indicated that a lack of attention and communication by the attorneys caused them to be fired. Reasons pjrovided included lack of contact, dissatisfied…
Big companies, including law firms, sometimes go into bankruptcy. It happens a lot. But when it's a major law firm, like Dewey LeBoeuf, the reasons for its demise can give us some clues about the future of all law firms.
It's an open secret among marketers that PR agencies often engender feelings ranging from dislike to outright disdain. Among law firms especially, the criticisms are consistent. Here are some solutions.
There's more to online marketing than simply getting a website for your law firm or getting your business listed on Google Places. The biggest trend for 2012 is the use of integrated marketing solutions
Clients have been telling lawyers for years how to make the relationships work; what we are looking for and how to win business. Are they listening? Most of us don't think so." Here's what to do.
At the Oscars in March, Best Actress winner Frances McDormand made “inclusion rider” go viral. But Kalpana Kotagal, a partner at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll had already worked for months to write the language for such provisions. Kotagal was developing legal language for contract provisions that Hollywood's elite could use to require studios and other partners to employ diverse workers on set.
The law firm office cannot remain unchanged, as if frozen in time set to some date prior to the onset of pandemic, when the terms and meaning have all changed. In fact, the office must now provide benefits or an experience the lawyers and staff cannot get at home.
The legal implications of branding generally arise initially for companies during the process of selecting a company name and any initial product or service names. For drug development companies, however, careful consideration should also be paid to the implications of branding a clinical trial.
'Disconnect Between In-House and Outside Counsel is a continuation of the discussion of client expectations and the disconnect that often occurs. And although the outside attorneys should be pursuing how inside-counsel actually think, inside counsel should make an effort to impart this information without waiting to be asked.
