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How to Become a Rainmaker
Almost anyone willing to develop the qualities necessary can become a rainmaker.
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Players on the Move
A look at moves among attorneys, law firms, companies and other players in entertainment law.
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Preparing the Next Generation of Lawyer Leaders
A new crop of leaders is gearing up to take the helm. Like their brethren before them, they have little in the way of formal experience or training for the roles they are about to inherit.
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Leadership for the Strong
There are a few things about being an effective leader that books and professors don't seem to directly address. Here are some tips to help partners who lead operational teams, offices, practices, departments, or the firm itself, to implement for leadership impact.
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Sales Speak: Overcoming the Doer-Seller Dilemma
<b><i>Rethinking Sales As an Act of Service</b></i><p>Lawyers are one of only a handful of professionals whose job requires them both to do the work and generate the business. This “Doer-Seller” Dilemma is particularly vexing for lawyers because of a long-held belief that sales is somehow beneath the legal profession and because lawyers have a limited view of what successful selling looks like.
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Key Tax and Financial Considerations for New Law Partners
Being asked to join the partnership of a firm is a measure of success as a legal professional. With that achievement comes tax and financial responsibilities that, surprisingly, few attorneys are fully prepared to deal with. These responsibilities include the unexpected individual federal and state and local tax filing and payments.
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Five Keys to Successfully Transitioning Clients Across Generations
<b><i>Strengthening Cultural Expectations Is Key</b></i><p>Client relationship succession planning is a top concern among law firm leaders. Firms of all stripes frequently develop goals in their strategic plans to facilitate more effective client relationship transitions. However, there is room for many firms to take a more formal and proactive approach to effectively transition client relationships across generations.
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L.A. Sees Many Moves Among Entertainment Law Firms
Entertainment practices with well-known clients are in high demand in the Los Angeles legal market, leading to a spate of lateral hires among American Lawyer 200 firms in the latter part of 2018.
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A New Philosophy for Managing Partners: Building Consensus Versus Managing As an Autocrat
An Astute Lawyer-Manager Must Achieve the Appropriate Balance of Building Consensus Among the Partners Applying management techniques to practice areas may introduce to the firm a new take on methods for enhancing profitability.
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New Partners Don't Know What to Expect After Promotion, Survey Shows
<b><i>More Law Firms Are Paving the Path to Partner, But What Happens Once One Gets There Is Less Than Certain</b></i><p>In some ways, the country's most recently promoted partners are more prepared than ever to take on their new roles. But the change still comes with its surprises.
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