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Pricing Legal Services
January 31, 2013
Beyond the "value-added" components of their efforts, expectations have risen in law firms for the marketing team to contribute directly to top-line growth. While their roles typically fall short of direct selling to new clients, in recent years marketing executives have been integrally involved in ongoing account management, prospecting, and expansion. They are juxtaposed with the rainmakers — practically joined at the hip in supporting partners as they embark into the legal market battlefield.
Preparing for Reverse Auctions
January 31, 2013
Rather than companies sending out RFPs to a number of law firms, they are now using a "reverse auction" to request quotes from law firms they trust. Here's how it works.
Complications Can Consume the Credit for Taxes Paid to Other States
January 31, 2013
While an available tax credit might seem like a great savings opportunity, as many often are, caution should be your watchword before chasing that credit.
The Accounting Dimensions of Law Firm Financial Impropriety
January 31, 2013
Law firms are at great risk for financial impropriety. Funds can come up missing in any law firm, and the cause can be intentional theft that qualifies as fraud or embezzlement, or an unintentional mistake that shows poor judgment.
Professional Development: Holding the Whistle Doesn't Make You a Coach
January 30, 2013
Many leaders fall into the trap of thinking that by managing the results, they are concurrently coaching their people on how to develop and sustain business. This is not the case.
Social Media Use
January 30, 2013
The expanding use of social media is perhaps the number-one trend reshaping law firm marketing. But social media use also vividly illustrates the dilemmas posed by the law's dual nature as a business and a profession.
Investing in China: What Every Investor Must Know
January 29, 2013
There are many companies listed on U.S. stock exchanges whose assets are located in China. Recently, many of these companies have faced increased scrutiny by their shareholders, bondholders, other investors and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Allen & Allen Leverages Aderant Integrated Case and Financial Management
January 28, 2013
The primary reason we chose Aderant Total Office was because of integration and that very few of the vendors the firm considered could provide both case and financial management software.
HOW TO GUESS RIGHT
December 27, 2012
Prognostication is a game for which the prize for getting it right is at least bragging rights, at best successful planning. Statistically, it seems, there are few winners ' but that seems to stop no one from doing it. Gambling is OK for sport, I guess, but ' except for calculated business risk ' not so hot as a planning or management tool.
A Lessee's Guide
December 20, 2012
At this time of year, CFOs are scrutinizing the available forms of funding to determine the most efficient way to satisfy their space, equipment and technology needs, and keep their organizations performing at their competitive best financially and operationally.

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    Insiders (and others) in the private equity business are accustomed to seeing a good deal of discussion ' academic and trade ' on the question of the appropriate methods of valuing private equity positions and securities which are otherwise illiquid. An interesting recent decision in the Southern District has been brought to our attention. The case is <i>In Re Allied Capital Corp.</i>, CCH Fed. SEC L. Rep. 92411 (US DC, S.D.N.Y., Apr. 25, 2003). Judge Lynch's decision is well written, the Judge reviewing a motion to dismiss by a business development company, Allied Capital, against a strike suit claiming that Allied's method of valuing its portfolio failed adequately to account for i) conditions at the companies themselves and ii) market conditions. The complaint appears to be, as is often the case, slap dash, content to point out that Allied revalued some of its positions, marking them down for a variety of reasons, and the stock price went down - all this, in the view of plaintiff's counsel, amounting to violations of Rule 10b-5.
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  • Meet the Lawyer Working on Inclusion Rider Language
    At the Oscars in March, Best Actress winner Frances McDormand made “inclusion rider” go viral. But Kalpana Kotagal, a partner at Cohen Milstein Sellers &amp; Toll had already worked for months to write the language for such provisions. Kotagal was developing legal language for contract provisions that Hollywood's elite could use to require studios and other partners to employ diverse workers on set.
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