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Undercutting the Cost of Underperforming Attorneys Is Your Responsibility
As a firm leader it is your fiscal responsibility to address underperforming attorneys. With COVID-19, are your underperformers flying under the radar? The cost to a firm is not only to the bottom line, but to your reputation as a leader.
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Technology Investments for Law Firms Moving Forward Post-COVID
Our forced experiment in change and technology adoption caused increasing technology investments. We're never going back the way we were — and this will be to the benefit of firms, profitability, clients and lawyers if we make the right technology investments. Here are some specific ways firms can capture these benefits.
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Undercutting the Cost of Underperforming Attorneys
As a firm leader it is your fiscal responsibility to address underperforming attorneys. With COVID-19 are your underperformers flying under the radar? The cost to a firm is not only to the bottom line, but to your reputation as a leader.
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New Strategies for Renegotiating Office Leases Post-COVID
Current circumstances present an opportunity for tenants to use new strategies to renegotiate or even terminate leases. This article looks at conventional legal strategies that may provide grounds for lease termination before turning to consider another, third, approach.
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Davis Wright Forms Entertainment Industry Reopening Advisory Group
As millions of Americans turned to television and movies for diversion and comfort amid the coronavirus pandemic and resulting business shutdowns, the companies that create that content were left scratching their heads about how to resume business safely when they are allowed. Davis Wright Tremaine launched a new group in hopes of providing the answers.
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Legal Analytics and the Evolving Practice of Law
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
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
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?
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
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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