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The Global 100 Are in the Midst of a Growth Spurt

Dan Packel

The World's Largest Firms Turned In a Second Straight Year of Robust Revenue Gains Amid Near-Universal Progress Mergers, rapid growth among Chinese law firms, and a healthy American market coalesced to turn 2018 into a spectacular year for the world's largest law firms.

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The Time to Improve Administrative Performance Is Now

J. Mark Santiago

This article focuses on what a firm can do now that will improve future firm economics regardless of what the future may hold. It identifies three areas that offer the great opportunity for improving a law firms' economics and better positioning them for whatever the future may bring.

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The Importance of Social Skills: Technology and Data Are Not Enough to Grow Your Firm's Business Image

The Importance of Social Skills: Technology and Data Are Not Enough to Grow Your Firm's Business

Jamie B. Field

Data is taking over our lives. And preceding that is all of the applications and technology that exists that helps us measure that information. But technology and data are not going to be the only growth drivers of a firm in the future. What's going to become most important in the face of the technological changes that are occurring in law firms is a lawyer's "soft-skills."

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The Time to Improve Administrative Performance Is Now Image

The Time to Improve Administrative Performance Is Now

J. Mark Santiago

This article focuses on what a firm can do now that will improve future firm economics regardless of what the future may hold, identifying three areas that offer the great opportunity for improving a law firms' economics and better positioning them for whatever the future may bring.

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"Don't Do Stupid"

J. Mark Santiago

6 Common Law Firm Accounting Practices That Need to Be Re-evaluated There are a number of tried and true practices in law firms that need more thinking. Not because law firm managers are stupid; it's just that some practices need to be periodically re-evaluated and adjusted to reflect the changing times.

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Lawyers: Being Paid Shouldn't Be Like Pulling Teeth! Image

Lawyers: Being Paid Shouldn't Be Like Pulling Teeth!

Peter A. Johnson

<b><i>What Lawyers Can Learn From Dentists</b></i><p>Nobody enjoys visiting the dentist, but everybody knows you still must pay him or her on the day of service. Attorneys, however, have historically let the client lead the payment dance. Lawyers do the work and hope/expect to be paid without waiting too long or discounting the invoice too steeply. What can we do differently?

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Orion Prebill Survey Shows Law Firms Are Troubled by Inefficient, Paper-Heavy Prebilling Processes Image

Orion Prebill Survey Shows Law Firms Are Troubled by Inefficient, Paper-Heavy Prebilling Processes

Kevin Harris

Prebilling, the process of generating invoice drafts and circulating them for annotation/adjustment, is one of the most important monthly tasks a law firm conducts. Since prebilling involves bringing money into the firm, the more efficient the process becomes, the better off the law firm is financially.

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Key Tax and Financial Considerations for New Law Partners

John Fitzgerald & Christopher Imperiale

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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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

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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