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Building a Successful Women's Initiative

Heidi Goldstein

Law firms across the country continue to struggle with the recruitment, retention and advancement of women. The findings of multiple national surveys consistently show that women make up almost half of all law school graduating classes, yet they account for less than 20% of the partners in most large law firms.

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Policing Workplace e-Mail Use

Fernando M. Pinguelo & Laura J. Tyson

On-the-job Internet surfing has become a problem that employers can no longer ignore. A recent Office of Inspector General investigation, for example, revealed that senior-level SEC staff, including an attorney, used their workplace computers to view online pornography for up to eight hours per day during the period of time that led this country's biggest economic meltdown since the Great Depression.

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Leadership Training Is an Oxymoron

Janet Kyle Altman

Leadership development is about learning, not training. Your firm's future leaders must be given the opportunities, tools, and motivation to develop their leadership.

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Training for Lawyer Management

Joel A.Rose

What <i>specifically</i> managing partners and members of management committees should do to coalesce their partners, associates and staff into a well-managed and informed organization, with all of the professional and administrative personnel working together to achieve the firm's immediate and long-term objectives.

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Survey of Equipment Finance Activity

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

The Equipment Leasing and Finance Association recently released its 2010 Survey of Equipment Finance Activity, which shows that new business volume among a sample of the ELFA member companies declined 30.3% in 2009, in contrast with a 2.2% decline in 2008.

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The Need for Independent Analysis On Portfolio Risks

Rick Daubenspeck

With the current economic condition being the way it is, and the risk assumed by banks and lessors being scrutinized more and more, the once shunned idea of turning to an outside valuation provider for an assessment of potential exposure is now becoming more prevalent.

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Technology in Marketing: Developing a Team-Authored Blog

Joshua Fruchter

Publishing a blog can be time-consuming for an individual attorney when done right. One solution: Publish a blog in collaboration with other attorneys in the same practice area.

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Valuable Lessons from This Great Recession

Kimberly Alford Rice

Despite posting profits in 2009, some firms still grapple with how to engender more rainmakers from their attorney pool to spread the business generation responsibility more evenly.

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The Place to Network: The Art and Practice of Blogging

Timothy B. Corcoran

Blogs have proven to be an effective tactic to establish subject matter expertise, and the Internet search engines can help reach a target audience on a scale that other networking tactics, and traditional publishing venues, may not.

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