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Can Millennials Save Your Law Firm? Image

Can Millennials Save Your Law Firm?

Lizzy McLellan

<b><i>After Years of Complacency About Their Business Model and the Pipeline for Talent, There's a Reason Law Firms Are So Worried About Managing the Millennial Generation</b></i><p>For law firms wringing their hands about how to manage the millennial generation — or asking why they should adapt to this crop of young lawyers in the first place — here's the bad news: If you're still clinging to traditional models for training associates and running the partnership, you've already fallen behind. The millennials are here, they're climbing the ranks, and they've already begun to transform the industry.

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How Many Excess Partners Does Your Firm Have? Image

How Many Excess Partners Does Your Firm Have?

Hugh A. Simons

It is widely recognized that Big Law has surplus partner capacity. What is less well recognized is just how massive this surplus has become, how unevenly it is spread across firms in different profitability cohorts, and what it portends for when the next downturn hits.

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<b><i>Voice of the Client:</i></b> What Does 'Different' Mean? Image

<b><i>Voice of the Client:</i></b> What Does 'Different' Mean?

Bruce Alltop

As firms turn their focus to revenue generation, some of the more progressive firms look to their clients to help them create their strategic priorities. In some cases, they even ask their clients to be involved in the planning process.

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Engaging Lawyers in a Follow-Up Initiative: A Case Study Image

Engaging Lawyers in a Follow-Up Initiative: A Case Study

Cindy Sharp

A look at a recent group coaching initiative at a major law firm. Having had success with group coaching in the past, the CMO established a six-month pilot program and chose eight attorneys to participate. Here's what happened.

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<b><i>Sales Speak:</i></b> Award Winners: What Can We Learn? Image

<b><i>Sales Speak:</i></b> Award Winners: What Can We Learn?

Beth Cuzzone & Darryl Cross

In every issue of <i>Marketing the Law Firm</i>, we read about best practices and new trends. However, not even that prepared us for this year's LSSO (Legal Sales and Service Organization Inc.) Legal Sales and Service Awards winners — specifically, the long-term success established in a short amount of time at two law firms.

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<b><i>Leadership:</i></b> Never Lose Heart: Appreciating the Human Image

<b><i>Leadership:</i></b> Never Lose Heart: Appreciating the Human

Jim Durham

<b><i>The Impact of What We Do as Marketers and Lawyers</b></i><p>Sometimes the legal profession can seem to be too much about money and the chase thereof. So, maybe it is time to talk more about the human impact of what we do — we almost never talk about what could arguably be the most important aspect of our professional lives: How what we do as professionals impacts the lives of real people, in meaningful ways.

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The Administrative Services Hat Trick Image

The Administrative Services Hat Trick

J. Mark Santiago

At the ALA annual conference in Denver, I was speaking on how law firms could provide better administrative support for their attorneys and how alternative strategies were being deployed by some law firms to achieve those goals. After my session, the discussion continued with a group of participants and the hat trick metaphor was born.

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<b><i>Marketing Tech:</i></b> Data Science for the Law Image

<b><i>Marketing Tech:</i></b> Data Science for the Law

Andrew Duchon

"Data Science" and "Artificial Intelligence" are terms being thrown around in every field, including legal. But what are they? Why are they generating so much excitement these days? There are many definitions out there, but Data Science is really just statistics of the real world, including business and customer data. The question is how do you get the right statistics?

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<b><i>Professional Development:</i></b> Getting 'Gig'gy with It: The New 'Gig Economy' Image

<b><i>Professional Development:</i></b> Getting 'Gig'gy with It: The New 'Gig Economy'

Michael DeCosta

<b><i>Law Firm Marketing Teams Need to Adapt!</b></i><p>For the most part, law firms continue to structure themselves in a traditional operating and employment models with a dedicated workforce of talent arranged in an organizational hierarchy. In today's Gig Economy, however, this will unlikely hold. Here's why.

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Alternative Fee Arrangements in Complex Litigation Image

Alternative Fee Arrangements in Complex Litigation

Overton Thompson III & David Rue

<i><b>The Case for Value Billing</i></b><p>Alternative fee arrangements (AFAs) are about value, a benefit legal departments are increasingly pressured to bring to their companies. When hiring an outside lawyer, clients are not looking for "hours," and they certainly are not looking for tenths of hours. They seek value.

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