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Building the Law Firm of the Future
As organizations strive for growth into the future, outsourcing helps to find the balance between risk and opportunity, between cost and access to new skills and capabilities, curating innovation, and incorporating new remote working norms.
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Effective Hybrid Work Polices Need a Stick to Go with the Carrot
While many firms have, in fact, embraced hybrid operations, the meaning of hybrid has evolved from "office optional," to an average required 2 days a week, to now many firms coming out with four-day work week mandates — this time, with teeth.
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New Report Focuses on How Modern Law Firms Are Navigating Digital Transformation
Leadership, Growth, and Profitability in a Post-Pandemic Era: Insights on Navigating Digital Transformation in the Modern Law Firm emphasizes the connection between legal technology and law firm success, the importance of training to ensure technology adoption, the influence of automation and document management on digital transformation, and how law firms are deploying data to create a competitive advantage.
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The 5 Top Law Firm Business Development Trends of 2023
As firms strive to remain competitive in an increasingly crowded marketplace, marketing and business development professionals can and should play a critical role in driving growth and helping generate revenue.
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Hidden Gems: Enliven Your Well-Being Programs By Thinking Outside the Box
Well-being at law firms has gotten boring. Sorry, but it's true. You tend to see the same topics over and over: fitness, mindfulness, substance use, etc. By thinking outside the box, you can offer well-being programs your people will find exciting, impactful, and irresistible.
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Consolidation: Coming to a Firm Near You?
Automate Onboarding & Offboarding Processes for Smoother Transitions Questions about the role of AI in the legal market continue to dominate current headlines, but firm consolidation remains a big part of the transformation the industry is undergoing. And yes, technology and automation are playing key parts in this. As firms merge or acquire others to expand their capabilities and client base, a streamlined approach to attorney onboarding and offboarding has become essential.
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New Report: The Expanding Influence of Legal Operations
Ari Kaplan interviewed 50 legal operations professionals to better understand how they are adapting to today's legal, business, and operations landscapes, including examining the effect of contract lifecycle management tools and the rise of analytics and artificial intelligence on their law departments.
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Legal Marketers and Business Developers Are Bullish On AI
As buzz around artificial intelligence continues to grow, law firm leaders are by and large taking a cautious approach. But when it comes to the marketing and business side of the legal industry, leaders are bullish about the prospects of AI assisting their overworked teams, with many actively exploring possible applications, if not using them already.
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'All Messages Matter': Crisis Insights from Law Firm Marketing Pros
In June, when the internal emails of former Lewis Brisbois partners were leaked to the New York Post a month after the partners, along with over 100 other attorneys, left the firm to start their own, it offered another lesson to learn in crisis management.
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Is Consolidation Coming to a Firm Near You?
Automate Onboarding & Offboarding Processes for Smoother Transitions Questions about the role of AI in the legal market continue to dominate current headlines, but firm consolidation remains a big part of the transformation the industry is undergoing. And yes, technology and automation are playing key parts in this. As firms merge or acquire others to expand their capabilities and client base, a streamlined approach to attorney onboarding and offboarding has become essential.
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