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Law Firm Leadership: Beyond Coffee and Client Alerts: Strategizing Your Client Nurture System for Multidimensional Relationships
Business development is, first and foremost, about people and your relationships with these people. While marketing and visibility activities (speaking, writing, etc.) are critical, it's the people who ultimately make the hiring decisions. As a lawyer, while time is rarely on your side, developing your Nurture System will help you strengthen and deepen your important relationships in ways that are sustainable and effective.
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Using Experience Management In Marketing and Business Development
With experience management, information is centralized in exactly one place and, by design, means that marketing, business development and knowledge management (KM) know that the information they need resides in that exact, single "place."
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Billable Hours Frustrate In-House Attorneys, So Why Aren't They Demanding Alternatives?
Alternative-fee arrangements help establish a link between outside counsel costs and the value provided.. Yet, adoption of AFAs remains sluggish — even as outrage over outside counsel hourly rate increases grows.
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The White House's AI Executive Order Has Teeth, But Does It Bite?
Packing more tricks and treats than a suburban soccer mom, this sweeping order was ambitious, to say the least, artfully seeking to thread the needle and balance fear and desire when it comes to the AI renaissance sweeping the globe. And yet, hidden within the body of the order lay something that might make this sweeping and ambitious order flop.
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A Look Inside the Rulings for Sandy Hook Families In Alex Jones Bankruptcy
A Q&A with the team working on the Alex Jones/Sandy Hook case in bankruptcy court in Texas, who provides an inside look at the case, their strategy, and some takeaways.
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Players On the Move
A look at moves among attorneys, law firms, companies and other players in entertainment law.
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Designing the Future: Protecting AR/VR Innovations With Design Patents
The future is only redesigned every so often, so it is worth asking, what will this new technology look like, and how can pioneers protect their user-facing innovations that will define this emerging space? Design patents are the answer.
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Landlord & Tenant Law
Tenant's Summary Judgment Motion Denied In Rent Overcharge Proceeding
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Climate Issues Becoming More Critical for Commercial Real Estate Development
Considerations for severe weather and climate, in general, have real estate developers putting more focus on how they build and operate. But add to that rising insurance rates, which have dealt a big blow to budgets as premiums continue to climb.
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Online Extra: From Law School to Corner Office: Tips for Crafting An Effective Bio
A well-written and up-to-date bio is both essential and possible for every lawyer, no matter your age, level or practice. Here are some tips for crafting an effective bio as you move through different stages of your practice.
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