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Managing Outreach Is the Most Important Task for Practice Group Leaders
No other job of a practice group leader does more to solve the many challenges of running a practice group than does a steady flow of new work from new clients.
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The Most Important Task Practice Group Leaders Fail to Manage
There is one task that practice group leaders prioritize above all others: the management of the group's outreach. No other job of a practice group leader does more to solve the many challenges of running a practice group than does a steady flow of new work from new clients.
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Understanding Your Clients' Changing Needs In a Post-Pandemic Legal Market
If it was challenging to get facetime with clients pre-pandemic, that challenge has only multiplied in the post-pandemic world. As firms look for creative ways to reconnect with clients, client interviews and surveys have become more important than ever for ensuring client satisfaction, loyalty and profitability.
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Stakeholders: How to See Things from the Client's Perspective
Without hearing the Voice of the Customer (or Client), we risk missing the mark in our strategy, messaging and positioning, as well as delivery of work, product and service, operations, technology, staffing and so forth — in short, we potentially miss on everything.
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The Queen's Gambit: Vetting Costs and Other Factors In Hiring a Tech Vendor
There are numerous "gameplays" to reduce risks when selecting and hiring a technology vendor. With each mitigating factor you incorporate into your contracting playbook, prepare to incur additional costs.
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Virtual Reality or the New Reality of Virtual Practice?
In response to the worst period on record for cyber attacks, the ABA published Formal Opinion 498 to address practicing law outside of the traditional brick-and-mortar office environment. It reminds lawyers that while the ABA Model Rules permit virtual practice, they provide minimum requirements and recommendations for virtual practice, particularly in the areas of competence, confidentiality and supervision.
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Strategy vs. Tactics: Two Sides of a Difficult Coin
With each successive large-scale cyber attack, it is slowly becoming clear that ransomware attacks are targeting the critical infrastructure of the most powerful country on the planet. Understanding the strategy, and tactics of our opponents, as well as the strategy and the tactics we implement as a response are vital to victory.
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The Queen's Gambit: A Proactive Approach to Reducing Technology Vendors' Contracting Risk
There are numerous "gameplays" to reduce risks when selecting and hiring a technology vendor. Whether you are able to accept a risk and to what extent are not always clear. Just know that, like in chess, your opening move to an IT deal can be your most powerful.
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The Future of Litigation Workflow: Reimagining Technology and Process in the Next Decade
Hear what a cross-section of law firm leaders say about how the pandemic has impacted litigation in the short- and long-term.
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Work from Home Could Lead to Higher Cyber Insurance Claims
A look at the main software and application categories that increased during remote work and the vast implications for user privacy, corporate cybersecurity and cyber insurance.
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