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Read This Before You Set Your 2018 Billing Rates Image

Read This Before You Set Your 2018 Billing Rates

Hugh A. Simons

Setting the next year's billing rates follows a simple formula at most firms: last year's rate plus a common percentage increase across all lawyer cohorts. A more disaggregated approach is needed -- firms should set higher percentage increases for senior lawyers and lower increases for junior lawyers.

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Are Law Firms Charging Less or Just Making Less?

Roy Strom

In a market where clients are struggling to deliver more legal services for less cost (the challenge), RichardSusskind says a law firm may be tempted to undercut its competition on price in hopes of winning more work. But is it actually happening?

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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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How Firms Should Be Measuring the Profitability of Matters

Hugh A. Simons

Matter profitability matters. Yet most firms struggle to measure it in a manner that is accurate, focused on the levers partners control, and inclines partners to take action. Using margin per-partner-hour (MPH) to measure profitability delivers on these objectives.

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When Will Disruption Hit the Legal Industry? Image

When Will Disruption Hit the Legal Industry?

Hugh A. Simons & Nicholas Bruch

Economics tells us an industry that experiences a drop in aggregate demand, adds production capacity, and increases the market overlap among competitors will suffer price erosion and profitability decline. Law firms fit this profile. Yet, in talking with law firm partners, you don't get the sense that any such "disruption" is happening. Perhaps economics has bypassed law?

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<b><I>Media & Communications:</I></b> How Being a Benefit Corporation or B Corp May Help Land the Right Clients Image

<b><I>Media & Communications:</I></b> How Being a Benefit Corporation or B Corp May Help Land the Right Clients

John Montgomery

This article explores whether or not it makes sense to organize your law firm as a professional benefit corporation and/or B Corp to help you attract the growing number of clients seeking a law firm aligned with their social and environmental values.

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Financing and Leasing Technology Is a Strategic Advantage

Scott McFetters

Law firms may want to leverage a specific law firm management technology to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace, but might not want to purchase those tools outright. How are you equipping your firm to succeed both in the present day and into the future?

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How Firms Should Be Measuring the Profitability of Matters Image

How Firms Should Be Measuring the Profitability of Matters

Hugh A. Simons

Matter profitability matters. Yet most firms struggle to measure it in a manner that is accurate, focused on the levers partners control, and inclines partners to take action. Using margin per-partner-hour (MPH) to measure profitability delivers on these objectives.

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Smaller Firms' Message To Big Law on Alternative Fees: Join the Club Image

Smaller Firms' Message To Big Law on Alternative Fees: Join the Club

Miriam Rozen

Microsoft's vow to make its outside lawyers bill nearly all their work under alternative fee arrangements caused a stir, given large law firms' traditional devotion to the billable hour. But for a growing number of mostly smaller firms, those anxieties highlight a Big Law business model they've already left behind.

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Financing and Leasing Technology Is a Strategic Advantage Image

Financing and Leasing Technology Is a Strategic Advantage

Scott McFetters

Law firms may want to leverage a specific law firm management technology to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace, but might not want to purchase those tools outright. How are you equipping your firm to succeed both in the present day and into the future?

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