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Phyllis Weiss Haserot
Does the innate need to appear "competent" help or hinder a professional's ability to develop business, develop future talent and give superior service to clients?
Richard Stieglitz
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Asal Mirsalimi
Social Security is the biggest retirement system in the United States and its benefits play an important role for retiring Baby Boomers. Millions of Americans depend on their monthly benefits, the amount which can be affected by various factors, most importantly the age at which you retire.
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Timothy B. Corcoran
In-house counsel have, after years of grumbling, finally motivated law firms to act differently, putting client needs above the law firms' own arcane business models and billing policies. However, few law firm leaders view these changes as positive, so many do a poor job of promoting their enhanced capabilities as a competitive advantage.
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Greg Sutphin
For attorneys and law firm marketers, the advent of smartphones means a new frontier for gathering information ' and a new competitive arena.
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Jay Jaffe
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Terry Isner
Most, if not all, law firms have a professional presence online these days, so that is no longer a key differentiator ' but what they do with these websites is. Smart firms are moving away from static text-only websites that look just like their competitors' websites and are rarely, if ever, updated with fresh content. And they're doing something else, too: focusing on branding.
Andrew Sobel
The CEO of a $12 billion company summed it up neatly when he told me, "During a first meeting, I can always tell how experienced a banker or lawyer is by the quality of the questions they ask." Many lawyers, however, prefer to tell rather than ask and listen.
Jeremy Hoders
When a client hires a marketing firm for advisory services, how is it much different than trusting the waiter at a restaurant? If you think about it, there really is no difference ' <i>unless</i> you are able to contribute something more to the relationship.
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Kimberly Alford Rice
Wow, what a year 2011 was. While the economy barely hung on for many law firms that had once seemed invincible, our legal marketing colleagues around the country were busy innovating to heights not seen before in our professional space. It is a great time to be engaged in marketing law firms, indeed.
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David Gialanella
A lawyer's attempt to shield himself from discipline via a release in a divorce agreement was not only void ' it was itself an ethics violation, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled.
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Jonathan T. Hoffmann
Issues relating to one's child or children, whether in an intact family or not, can often present difficult challenges. Typically, the challenges faced by separated parents have the potential to get significantly more complicated than those faced by intact families.
