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Client Speak: A Three-Way Street Image

Client Speak: A Three-Way Street

Allan Colman

Lawyers who find ways to provide clients with incentives to hire the firm ought to be rewarded accordingly. The principle seems sound enough but, as usual, the devil is in the proverbial details.

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Career Journal: Greater Impact -- Deciding Between an In-House or a Freelance Marketing Role Image

Career Journal: Greater Impact -- Deciding Between an In-House or a Freelance Marketing Role

Michael DeCosta

With the average tenure of a law firm Chief Marketing Officer hovering around three years, business development and marketing executives might wonder if the profession offers a healthy career platform for them long term. Here's what they need to know.

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Movers & Shakers

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Who's doing what; who's going where.

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Movers & Shakers Image

Movers & Shakers

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Who's doing what; who's going where.

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Discovery Requests for Electronic Documents

Stacy Edelstein Hyken

In recent years, the rise in the use of electronic documents, especially e-mail, has unquestionably changed the face of discovery in all types of types of litigation. As a result, the obligations counsel has in responding to discovery requests for electronic documents have been rapidly evolving. This article discusses what you need to know.

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Separation Agreements and General Releases

Anne Ciesla Bancroft

In order to get what they pay for, businesses need to ensure that their separation agreements protect the company's interest to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

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The Revised Americans with Disabilities Act

Beverly W. Garofalo & Sally D. Welch

The ADAAA, which takes effect in January 2009, took aim at two United States Supreme Court decisions rendered during the last decade that were viewed as substantially limiting the scope of covered disabilities under the ADA. This article discusses what it means to you.

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It's Compensation Time Again

Michael E. Mooney

Whatever compensation system a firm selects, it will work in the long run only if it has the confidence of all of the firm's partners. Based upon the author's experience, that confidence can best be won by providing a role in the process for all partners.

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PRE - CLIENT BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT I.

Allan Colman, the Closers Group, www.closersgroup.com

PRE - CLIENT BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT I. Before beginning to pursue a current or recent client, lawyers need to ask and answer the following questions.

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The Future Value of Today's Inventory

Derek Schutz

Most law firm managers understand intuitively that the value of inventory (both WIP and A/R) degrades over time, but by how much and how quickly? The ability to understand and answer these two questions is the first step in preparing a realistic, forward-looking valuation model ' one that can identify opportunities and drive action.

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