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Leadership in the Law: Take the Leadership Reins and Drive to Accomplish Image

Leadership in the Law: Take the Leadership Reins and Drive to Accomplish

Silvia L. Coulter

Everyone can lead from their seat in the firm. It takes skill, followers and self-awareness.

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Professional Development: Ready or Not, Here You Come

Christine Caceres & Michelle Michaels

The following lesson plan illustrates how you can draw upon some of your "playground skills" to achieve greater success with your business development efforts.

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Marketing Tech: Four Technology Trends Changing Law Firm Marketing and Business Image

Marketing Tech: Four Technology Trends Changing Law Firm Marketing and Business

Adam Stock

Although mobile shopping and electronic wallets are expected to grow significantly this year, neither will have any noticeable impact on law firms or the practice of law. What, then, are the technology trends that law firms should pay attention to and how will they uniquely impact the legal industry?

The Business of Branding: Find Your Nugget Image

The Business of Branding: Find Your Nugget

Sean Leenaerts

Unless your firm is providing client service, in a way that's never been done before you will have to dig much deeper ' past the claims of superior client service, expertise, range of practices, cost-effectiveness, etc. ' to find that nugget upon which you can build your brand.

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Why I Dumped My BlackBerry (And Got an iPhone)

David J. Kaufman

I have had a BlackBerry for something like 15 years; each year or so getting a new replacement model. Now again it seems like the time to switch to a new device yet again. Here's why.

Best Authority Solves TOA Problem at CA-based Goldfarb & Lipman Image

Best Authority Solves TOA Problem at CA-based Goldfarb & Lipman

Dave Kong

In our litigation department, the lawyers and legal staff frequently need to create a Table of Authorities (TOA) ' a list of citations in a legal brief. While creating such a table may sound like a simple task, it is not. In fact, at one time, TOA creation was so problematic for us that it captured the attention of our Managing Director.

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Getting Real in a Virtual World

Mike Ferguson

To "nickel and dime" in the short-term is a recipe for disaster when attempting to create an infrastructure that will answer immediate and future IT demands. With this in mind, when we began looking at virtualization ' heralded as a tech area that can shape the fortunes of an organization ' I realized the initiative would need to be approached cautiously to achieve our goals and ensure strong ROI.

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Prep Before Deployment

Sue Hughes

Must-have" software, hardware and training seems to come in waves, with peaks and valleys in upgrades. The valleys can be comfortable once the kinks are ironed out and the training has been completed. I believe, relatively speaking that is, that we've been in a valley lately. But not anymore. We're on a peak again, a rather high one at that.

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The Perfect Panel

John Buchanan

Whether you're going to moderate a panel, participate in one or help someone prepare to be on a panel, there are a number of simple tips that can help ensure the panel goes well, you get some benefit from participating, and the audience goes home happy.

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New Approaches for Defensible Early Case Assessment and Data Culling

Bob Rohlf

Early case assessment (ECA), data culling and e-discovery costs are some of the most widely discussed topics in the legal industry. Yet, the methodologies of how to implement effective ECA and data culling, what's entailed and when implementation should begin, are extremely inconsistent. Plain and simple, ECA is a dynamic process. If utilized correctly, ECA can help legal teams understand their case and dramatically reduce litigation costs.

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