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It's Time for Post-Pandemic Law Firm Retreats
After two years of cancelled, postponed or virtualized versions, in-person retreats are finally back. It's time to refresh ourselves on why and how to run a safe and healthy in-person retreat.
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Avoid These 7 Mistakes to Not Seem 'Salesy'
It doesn't take much to be perceived as 'salesy.' A poorly-timed question, over-confidence, or a little too much enthusiasm can sour your prospect on you. Being perceived as salesy can create obstacles to winning the engagement. Fortunately, it's easy to avoid being salesy. Simply, avoid creating sales pressure.
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Racial Equity Audits Create Accountability for DEI Programs
As intolerance for inequities in policing and the workplace grew, corporations across the nation pledged their commitment to transform their hiring, promotion, and retention practices to foster inclusion for personnel at all levels. Whether organizations have made good on these commitments is an open question. Racial Equity Audits have emerged as a promising method for answering that question and addressing identified shortcomings.
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Why Hire a Fractional CMO?
A fractional CMO is an outsourced marketing executive that can perform all the functions of a chief marketing officer, including strategy, planning and implementation, without a company having to commit to a long-term, full-time salary.
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Use Marketing and Biz Dev Content for Cross-Selling Success
If you're unsure about how to get your cross-selling efforts going, marketing and business development content, in all of its forms, is your secret weapon for cross-selling your firm's services.
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You Won't Know It When You See It: The Challenges of Fabricated Evidence in the Digital Age
How significant is the threat of fabricated digital evidence that can alter the outcome of a case? In today's wired workplace, it's considerable.
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Beach Boys Songs Written Decades Ago Triggered Current Quarrel With Lawyers
There's current litigation in the ongoing Beach Boys litigation saga. A lawsuit filed in 2019 against Nevada residents Mike Love and his wife Jacquelyne in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada that alleges inaccurate payment by the Loves under the retainer agreement and seeks $84.5 million in damages.
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The Slack Explosion: Convenient Yet Complicated
Part One of a Two-Part Series The informality of chat culture not only makes chat data harder to search, it also results in huge volumes of a new kind of data that must be processed in unique ways before it can be reviewed.
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Attorneys Forecast Legal Challenges In NFTs
As nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, continue to grow in popularity through cryptocurrency purchase, sale and trade online, opportunities for entertainment attorneys in the emerging industry also are booming. For this article, attorneys shared how they're grabbing hold of NFT-related work and the challenges they foresee.
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Fifth Circuit Ruling Gives Commercial Lessees Likely Protection In Bankruptcy Court Free and Clear Asset Sales
The Fifth Circuit signaled that it would not approve in later cases a bankruptcy court asset sale of real property that summarily cuts off the rights of the debtor's lessees.
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