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Legal Analytics and the Evolving Practice of Law Image

Legal Analytics and the Evolving Practice of Law

Josh Becker

While we may use analytics differently in our respective companies, one thing is certain: Legal analytics is the future and it's time to jump on board.

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Law Firms Adopt a Legal Operations Perspective

Megan Miller

Law Firms Are Following the Lead of Their Corporate Clients In Implementing Legal Operations Methodologies By understanding legal operations approach, law firms can gain a better appreciation of client needs, share the client's vision and contribute to client satisfaction, while creating a competitive advantage for the firm.

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Law Firms Adopt a Legal Operations Perspective

Megan Miller

Law Firms Are Following the Lead of Their Corporate Clients In Implementing Legal Operations Methodologies Legal operations as a discipline within corporate legal departments is receiving more attention, funding and staffing over the last few years.

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What is the Difference Between Flexible Space Models and Traditional Office Leasing? Image

What is the Difference Between Flexible Space Models and Traditional Office Leasing?

Elizabeth Kluger Cooper & Zach Boroson

Market forces — such as workplace design, demographics and urbanization, capital flow and technology — are driving the growth of flexible space.

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Reimagining Business Development Training and Coaching

Debra Baker

Six Pillars of a Successful Bus-Dev Program For firms wanting to thrive through the next economic downturn and beyond, mastery of business development fundamentals is as essential as mastering legal skills. Yet training and coaching — whether done internally or through outside consultants — requires an investment in time and resources.

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The 'Silly Season'

J. Mark Santiago

That term refers to the months of October through December. It's a way of pointing out to partners that the necessary activities of practice management that so many of them had avoided for the first nine or 10 months of the year now had to be addressed. Clients that had not been billed now had to be invoiced. Outstanding invoices, many issued in the cold days of early March and April, now had to be collected and current work would not only have to be billed but collected as well.

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Producing Breakthroughs in Client Development

Arnold Keiser

It is easy to understand why many lawyers feel that only certain special individuals are blessed with the qualities necessary to be rainmakers. But almost anyone willing to develop the qualities necessary can become a rainmaker.

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When Key Employees Quit: 5 Things You Must Do to Keep Control of Critical Data

Michael Ciaramitaro & Sarah Brown

Losing a key employee is never easy — they often take with them institutional knowledge, great internal and external relationships, and critical skill sets. There is also a risk that they'll take some information or data with them when they go, either inadvertently or on purpose.

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Expanding Your Digital Strategy with RPA

Arup Das

Beyond improving efficiency, new advancements in Robotic Process Automation, or RPA, are helping lawyers do more <i>billable</i> work without hiring more people.

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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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