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Adopting COVID-19 Cuts, Law Firms Balance Image and Economics Image

Adopting COVID-19 Cuts, Law Firms Balance Image and Economics

Patrick Smith

Firms Are Applying Communications Lessons from the Great Recession As They Deliver Bad News During the Coronavirus Pandemic. As firms echo their response to the COVID-19 crisis, they are also showing they learned from the experiences of a decade ago, including the negative effects of delivering cuts unevenly, clumsily or with unnecessary secrecy.

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COVID 19: Selling in Times of Uncertainty

Debra Baker

The natural instinct during times of chaos is to move into a place of scarcity. The single best gift you can offer clients is courage and confidence about the path forward.

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How to Make Working from Home, Work for You

Sharon Meit Abrahams

In the legal industry it is time for a paradigm shift. Many firms have struggled with allowing people to work from home for a myriad of reasons. At this point, we have no choice. To help you get off on the right foot, the following are some best practices as we move forward into this new working environment.

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Make It Stick: Eight Strategies to Make Your Business Development Training More Effective Image

Make It Stick: Eight Strategies to Make Your Business Development Training More Effective

Eric Dewey

One factor in the slack of demand for law firms that is not being talked about is the state of the business development training and coaching that firms use to build their business development capabilities in the firm.

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Linking Partner Pay to Strategic Firm Objectives

J. Mark Santiago

In general law firms have been slower to adopt pay for performance systems. What law firms need now, and this article describes, is an approach to partner compensation that closely links a partners pay to their ability to contribute to the achievement of the firm's strategic objectives.

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Supreme Court Defers to State Law on Ownership of Tax Refund

Michael L. Cook

Federal courts should "turn to state law to resolve" a "fight over a tax refund," held a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court in Rodriquez v. FDIC (In re United W Bancorp., Inc.).

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The State of Legal Finance in 2020

Ari Kaplan

Legal industry analyst Ari Kaplan interviewed 32 lawyers from Finland, France, Hong Kong, Norway, Singapore, the UK and the U.S. about the evolution of legal finance. He also surveyed 20 in-house lawyers at Fortune 500 companies and 18 law firm lawyers from Australia, the Cayman Islands, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Singapore, Sweden, the UK, and the U.S. about emerging trends in legal finance. Below are some of his findings and what they indicate about the current state of the sector.

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Law Firm Mergers and Predictions for the Year 2020

Marcus Dyer

2019 went down as another record year for law firm mergers. But what do the numbers teach us? Did the tendency to merge apply to law firms across the board? Is the merger mania likely to continue in 2020? What was the impetus for record number of mergers? This article breaks down the available data to answer these questions and attempts to give us a glimpse into the future.

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Client Maximization: Doing Well by Doing the Right Things

Linda Hazelton

Making the most of your firm's client base need not be a costly undertaking. There are several steps a firm of any size can undertake to improve client experiences, ultimately, while also increasing the firm's chances of thriving.

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Selling in Times of Uncertainty

Debra Baker

The natural instinct during times of chaos is to move into a place of scarcity. The single best gift you can offer clients is courage and confidence about the path forward.

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