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Highlights of the latest insurance cases from around the country.
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Sales Speak: Making It Rain
While rainmaking is probably one of many good reasons an individual is moved into an Office Managing Partner leadership role, the more distance from the day-to-day requirements for rainmaking, the more inevitable is the erosion of those skills.
Career Journal: The 'Online' Resume
While the resume remains a critically important document ' one that in most instances is hard to do without ' the art form of presenting oneself continues to evolve.
The Voice of the Client: Billing As a Marketing and Business Development Tool
The following information and recommendations come directly from clients ' the consumers of your legal services.
Media & Communications Corner: What Matters in Client Reports
Done right, creating activity reports can be more than a regurgitation of effort and achievement ' they can be crucial tools to identify trends and business opportunities ...
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Content Marketing and Web Analytics
The information generated by web analytics is a valuable tool to help lawyers and law firms plan ' and continuously improve ' their content and their online content distribution campaigns.
American Natural Gas
To critics, natural gas may be associated with potential environmental hazards, which has predictably spawned a growing trend of litigation and regulatory scrutiny around the country.
Practice Tip: The Do's and Don'ts of Depositions
In the author's words, "There appears to be an almost universal disregard to posing a proper question."
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Leveling the Playing Field
The age of ESI changed everything in terms of how quickly and easily documents are created and then stored. As a consequence, every corporate defendant in a product liability case today can expect to spend thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars producing documents in discovery.
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