The Voice of the Client: Nano Business Development
While small law firms may continue to use technology to look big, large law firms need to use it to think and act small. Here's why.
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Career Journal: Professional Management
Law firms have a problem. Their clients compare them with their accountants and consultants ' how they gather and share knowledge, how they set prices, how they manage projects ' and wonder why they lag.
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Sales Speak: The Top Five Myths of Attorney Selling
Law firm marketing is about being found, not chosen. How you get found is through publicity, media outreach, networking, collateral materials, conducting and attending workshops.
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Marketing's Role in the Legal Industry's Pricing Revolution
It's hard to imagine a more perfect opportunity for legal marketing professionals to earn a seat at the leadership table than the pricing revolution happening today in our industry.
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The Evolving Landscape of Modern Tort Liability
While the call for tort reform is a continuing cry by opponents of our civil justice system, the necessity for, and the scope of, reform remains largely debatable.
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Practice Tip: Spoliation and the 'Bad Faith' Requirement
This article underscores the necessity of understanding the importance of preserving evidence given the jurisdictional differences in spoliation law.
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Navigating the Stream of Commerce in the Wake of Nicastro
What is required to establish the minimum contacts necessary to exert specific personal jurisdiction over a foreign defendant in a forum state?
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Outsourcing in the New Legal Model
There's a new legal model in town ' ushered in by a new era of law firm client ' requiring firms to streamline operations and capture cost efficiencies at every level while also maintaining the high quality of services on which their reputations are staked.
Germer Gertz Improves Productivity with Secure Document Delivery
When you send a document to someone electronically, what's your preferred tool? Do you turn to File Transfer Protocol (FTP)? Or perhaps a thumb drive? For many lawyers and legal professionals (and this won't come as a surprise), the go-to tool is e-mail. It is easy and lawyers get it. But from an IT perspective, e-mail poses many problems.
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