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Case Study: California Law Firm Dowling Aaron Is Transforming and Modernizing Its Prebilling Process with Orion ePrebill Manager Image

Case Study: California Law Firm Dowling Aaron Is Transforming and Modernizing Its Prebilling Process with Orion ePrebill Manager

Gregory N. Miskulin, Jamie Carstens & Lindsay Powell

Orion's ePrebill Manager allows corrections to prebills to be tracked and applied in real time, with a one-click acceptance and approval process. Further, by distributing prebills electronically, attorneys can see the edits made by others, the overall net effect of write-downs, and how these affect the realization of both the working timekeepers and the client overall, in real time.

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The Confounding Paradox of Marketing Investment for Struggling Law Firms Image

The Confounding Paradox of Marketing Investment for Struggling Law Firms

Bill Josten

"You have to spend money to make money." Or, so holds the well-worn cliché. For those firms struggling to find meaningful growth in today's market, where do they find the funds they need to spend in order to spur growth?

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Law Firm Profitability: The Art and Science Image

Law Firm Profitability: The Art and Science

Timothy B. Corcoran & Marcie Borgal Shunk

The Manner in Which Law Firm Leaders Measure Profitability Has the Potential to Have a Profound Impact on Behavior and Motivation, Particularly As More Firms Integrate This Metric Into Their Compensation Systems The manner in which law firm leaders measure profitability has the potential to have a profound impact on behavior and motivation.

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Media & Communication: 3 Ways to Drive Higher ROI from Press Releases Image

Media & Communication: 3 Ways to Drive Higher ROI from Press Releases

Nicholas Gaffney

In an age where law firms can quickly disseminate news to target audiences via multiple social media platforms as well as their own websites, is it finally time to put the press release out to pasture? The press release is a valuable PR tool that deserves to live on. Executed correctly, the benefits outweigh the cost.

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Law Firms Are More Profitable Than Ever. How are They Doing It? Image

Law Firms Are More Profitable Than Ever. How are They Doing It?

Nicholas Bruch

<b><i>Given the Obstacles Law Firms Are Facing, Profitability Shouldn't Be Increasing</b></i><p>Rising competition from alternative service providers and the ever-forward march of technology adoption should be having a similar, negative, effect on profitability. This raises an obvious question — how are law firms doing it?

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Prospering in the 'New Normal' Image

Prospering in the 'New Normal'

J. Mark Santiago

<b><i>Raising Costs and Declining Demand are Sapping Profits</b></i><p>The “New Normal” of today is one in which raising operating costs, associate salary increases, and reduced realization rates coupled with AFAs and demands from corporate counsel for reduced rates are sapping firm profits and there is no relief on the horizon. Law firm leaders, seeing current conditions, should be asking if there is a better way.

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Focusing on Client Retention May Mean Restructuring the Firm Image

Focusing on Client Retention May Mean Restructuring the Firm

Kathryn B. Whitaker 

<b><i>Law Firms Should Double Down on Their Existing Clients By Focusing on Client Satisfaction and Retention Rates Rather Than Billable Hours and Origination Credits</b></i><p>New client acquisition can cost 15 times more than retaining an existing client, and yet most lawyers spend their limited and valuable time chasing new clients.

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11 Factors to Collecting Attorney Fees on a Timely Basis Image

11 Factors to Collecting Attorney Fees on a Timely Basis

Peter Oliva

Most of the time, delayed payments are a result of actions by the law firms themselves. Let's take a look at 11 factors impacting the collection of attorney fees on a timely basis and how to avoid these mistakes.

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The Death of the Law Firm Partnership Vote? Image

The Death of the Law Firm Partnership Vote?

Gina Passarella Cipriani

<b><i>With an Eye on Efficiency, Firms Are Ditching Old Methods for a More Corporate Form of Governance</b></i><p>A growing number of firms in the United States and the United Kingdom are eschewing historical partnership norms in favor of more centralized management, and with that comes fewer and fewer partnership votes.

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The Relationship Between Leadership and Management in More Successful Law Firms Image

The Relationship Between Leadership and Management in More Successful Law Firms

Joel A. Rose

Financial stability within a law firm practice does not guarantee harmony within the partnership itself — far from it. Law firm management that does not acknowledge or reflect the importance of firm leadership and the contributions and needs of its members endangers a firm's cohesiveness and its very existence, no matter how many clients come through the front door.

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