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Highlights of 2016 and Predictions for 2017 Attract Year-End Media Interest Image

Highlights of 2016 and Predictions for 2017 Attract Year-End Media Interest

Janet Falk

By guiding your colleagues and lawyers to focus on the business consequences of timely legal issues, you introduce them to reporters as sources whose opinions and predictions will be quoted in these look-back and look-ahead review stories that executives and prospective clients will be reading to gear up for the new year.

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Are You a Five-Tool Player? Image

Are You a Five-Tool Player?

Beth Cuzzone & David Freeman

A law firm executive's ability to lead lawyers' potential for greatness can be evaluated using a model that is similar to baseball. The term “five-tool player” is used to describe a player who has an array of skills across a broad spectrum.

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Successful Rainmakers Stay the Course

Kimberly Alford Rice

Taking proactive and consistent steps to build and strengthen professional relationships is imperative to developing a solid practice.

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5 Key Reasons to Map out an Effective Marketing Plan

Kimberly Alford Rice

End the 'shotgun approach' to marketing this year. Stop spending unwisely and on random acts of marketing. Find your way to success by planning for it by developing a marketing map.

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You, Inc.: Why Women Lawyers Need to Build Their Own Brands

Kimberly Alford Rice

As we head into a new year, consider committing yourself to making it different, better, more fulfilling. Sure, the life of a female lawyer is nothing if not an exercise in multi-tasking, constant balancing of multiple priorities, and going the extra mile to be acknowledged and rewarded compared to your male counterparts, but the savvy lawyer understands that her legal career is only as satisfying as she molds it to be.

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Relationship Building, Part 3: Time Considerations

Kimberly Alford Rice

Attorneys are very busy people, often logging their time in six-minute increments. Where do they 'find' the time to get and stay in touch with everyone AND have the much-needed downtime?

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Relationship Building, Part 2: Check Motivations

Kimberly Alford Rice

Relationships only happen when we are committed to make them a priority, and that takes time and a commitment to 'water' the relationship seeds we sow.

Relationship Building: Staying in Touch Image

Relationship Building: Staying in Touch

Kimberly Alford Rice

Some things appear to be so simple that we assume (dangerously) that everyone 'gets it.'

Tips for How Women Lawyers Can Chart a Different Course, Part 3 Image

Tips for How Women Lawyers Can Chart a Different Course, Part 3

Kimberly Alford Rice

Along the way to charting your own course, below are critical habits to be implemented as you stay focused on growing a fulfilling and prosperous career.

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Tips for How Women Lawyers Can Chart a Different Course

Kimberly Alford Rice

Though the road may be paved with bumps and hiccups, women lawyers can absolutely chart their course, a different course by implementing proven strategies to create the career of their dreams. Below are critical habits along that path to a fulfilling and prosperous career.

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