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What Your Firm Can Learn from Toyota Image

What Your Firm Can Learn from Toyota

Paul Silverman

Six Sigma is a disciplined methodology for eliminating defects in any process ' from manufacturing to transactional law. Following this efficiency matrix, LEAN Processing, as developed by Toyota, is without question the most important approach to business process of our times.

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Sponsors of Participant-Directed 401(k) Plans Should Not Ignore the Proposed Disclosure Requirements

Stuart A. Sirkin

Employers sponsoring participant-directed 401(k) plans face a quandary with respect to all the new fee disclosure requirements being put forth by the Department of Labor. This article discusses the situation.

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In the Marketplace

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Who's doing what; who's going where.

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Lessee Remains Liable to Lessor Following Failed Mitigation

Mark I. Rabinowitz & Marcie D. Seiler

In <i>Giant Eagle, Inc. v. Phar-Mor, Inc.</i>, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that the lower courts erred in their determination that once a lessor mitigates its damages by entering into a substitute lease, the lessor cannot claim damages from the original lessee for the period covered by the new lease if the substitute lessee subsequently defaults. Here is a discussion of the case.

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What's New in the Law

Robert W. Ihne

Recent high-profile cases of interest to you and your practice.

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Court Finds Compelled Purchase Option in SILO Case

Philip H. Spector

In the recently decided AWG Leasing Trust case, No. 1:07-CV-857 (N.D. Ohio 2008), a federal district court found against a taxpayer that engaged in a cross-border sale-leaseback of a waste-to-energy facility located in Germany. Herein is a discussion of the case and its aftermath.

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Developing a Coordinated Corporate Social Responsibility Program

Elizabeth A. Wall

Last month, the author discussed what a corporate social responsibility (CSR) program entails and how the key to creating a successful CSR program is to establish stakeholder value across the board. This followup article explains the seven steps to be taken in establishing such a coordinated CSR program.

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Client Speak: Client Retention -- A Most Inadequate Concept

Allan Colman

High-quality work for existing clients is the most important and most appreciated selling tool there is. For that reason, the common terminology of "client retention" is inadequate. Here's why.

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Legal Sales & Service: Process Improvement for Law Firms

Catherine Alman MacDonagh & Laura Colcord

The marketing and business development department exists to serve ' we are the service arm of a service business. Our clients are both internal (the firm) and external (the firm's clients). The things we do and they way we do them affect ourselves, the firm and our clients, so we must care about our processes."

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A Leap of Faith

Phyllis Weiss Haserot

Interviews with senior associates and individuals in their first or second year of partnership (particularly equity partnership) reveal that they frequently face a number of surprises ' even shocks ' when they enter their new, long-desired status. Here's what to do.

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