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Social Media Scene: It's Time to Reassess Your Social Media Goals Image

Social Media Scene: It's Time to Reassess Your Social Media Goals

Keith Ecker

Given that the social media landscape of today is already drastically different than the social media landscape of three years ago, how should legal marketers invest their time and money in order to derive the greatest return on their investments? The answer starts with a thorough look at a law firm's social media goals.

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Crisis: Controlling the Threats and Seizing the Opportunities Image

Crisis: Controlling the Threats and Seizing the Opportunities

Jennifer Connelly

When it comes to crises, businesses practically tie themselves in knots trying to avoid any potential conflict. But what are the best ways to control a crisis once it comes up?

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Executive Coaching Drives Future Leadership Success Image

Executive Coaching Drives Future Leadership Success

Sheryl Odentz

Executive coaching has finally made contact with Big Law, big time. This paradigm shift has happened because research now proves there is a return on investment realized by organizations that invest in professionally developing human capital .

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Admitting New Partners and Classes of Partners As the Demand for Legal Services Continues to Lag Image

Admitting New Partners and Classes of Partners As the Demand for Legal Services Continues to Lag

Joel A. Rose

A new survey of law firm leaders reveals that partners at a majority of the firms don't have enough work, and that demand for legal services is lagging behind pre-recession levels. Yet, despite this gloomy assessment, law firm leaders report that their partners are resistant to change.

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Create a Unified Team By Integrating Your Talent Functions Image

Create a Unified Team By Integrating Your Talent Functions

Amy B. Mallow

As firms strive to maximize operational efficiencies and increase the effectiveness of recruiting and retention across the talent spectrum, many are evaluating how to best align their talent function to the firm's values and business objectives, essentially with the common goal of delivering excellent client service and enhancing employee career satisfaction.

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Law Firm Retreats

Sharon Meit Abrahams

In today's economy retreats may still be happening, but many have been tailored down and changed to business meeting formats rather than just R & R. To get the most out of the time and expense investment, proper planning is key.

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More Small Firm Leaders Embrace Succession Planning Image

More Small Firm Leaders Embrace Succession Planning

Lizzy McLellan

As partners and firm leaders from the baby boomer generation have begun to reach retirement age, legal consultants say succession planning has become a subject of increasing concern at small law firms, and is a topic they encourage those firms to prioritize.

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Firms Increasingly Making Partners Pay to Leave Image

Firms Increasingly Making Partners Pay to Leave

Gina Passarella, Christine Simmons & Roy Strom

As law firms look to protect themselves from cash walking out the door in a low-demand market, they are increasingly looking at methods to discourage lateral departures and, perhaps more importantly, are enforcing those methods more frequently.

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Marketing Tech: Getting to Insights and Acting on Them: That's All That Matters Image

Marketing Tech: Getting to Insights and Acting on Them: That's All That Matters

Peter J. Ozolin

Market Intelligence, Competitive Intelligence, Business Intelligence ' does it matter what we call it? Fundamentally, getting to value and insight comes down to adhering to one simple rule: The information must be actionable.

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Too Many Lawyers? Report Faults Firms for Resisting Layoffs Image

Too Many Lawyers? Report Faults Firms for Resisting Layoffs

Nell Gluckman

Should law firm leaders be firing more lawyers? That seems to be the takeaway of a report released by the legal consultancy Altman Weil. Herein is a summary of the findings.

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