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How Social Media Builds Your Practice

Greg Sutphin

Is using social media really worth the time it's taking out of yours busy days, and how do you know if it's paying off for your practice?

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You Don't Have to Sell to Develop Business

Chris Fritsch

According to industry research experts, every hour spent on business development can yield up to $34,000 in additional fee revenue per year. So why aren't attorneys doing more of it? And why is it so hard to train them to do it effectively?

Challenges and Adjustments in a Merger

Robert W. Denney

There is little or no honeymoon period after the marriage of a smaller firm with a much larger one. However, the drama that results from the merger need not ' and should not ' end in tragedy for the partners from the smaller firm.

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Asserting the Attorney-Client Privilege in ERISA Cases

Marcia S. Wagner

A spate of recent case law raises the question of which circumstances will enable advice rendered in benefits matters to be protected by the attorney-client privilege and the related work product doctrine.

When Should Attorneys Be in the Office?

Sheldon I. Banoff

There are no right or wrong answers as to exactly when an attorney should be in the office, or how many hours are enough (or too much). So what should you do?

Professional Development: The One Thing You Must Do in Your Marketing

Sara Holtz

If you fail to keep in touch with your prospects on a regular basis, your business development efforts will likely fall short of your hoped-for results.

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The Place to Network: What's So Good About Hosting an Event?

Timothy B. Corcoran

The intent of this column is to provide a framework for identifying the relative benefits of hosting an event. How can we turn an event into a means for generating revenue?

The Business of Branding: Put Some Poetry in Your Marketing

Sean Leenaerts

How you say something is as important as what you say. If content is king, then delivery is its scepter, crown and cape.

Technology in Marketing: Google+. Rethinks Online Privacy

Jay Jaffe

There's a fairly robust legal community developing on Google+. Here's what you need to know.

CyberSource: Machines Executing Processes and the Computer-Readable Medium

Brian Avery

In <i>CyberSource v. Retail Decisions</i>, a panel of the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court's summary judgment ruling that the asserted patent claims were invalid under 35 U.S.C. &sect; 101, and held that purely mental processes are unpatentable abstract ideas. The court decided that merely limiting an unpatentable mental process to a computer-readable medium for execution on a processor, in a so-called <i>Beauregard</i> claim, did not satisfy &sect; 101.

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