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Understanding Partners' Capital Accounts
December 11, 2012
Law firm management should ensure that partners and senior associates (potential partners) understand the basic concepts pertaining to partners' capital accounts.
Legal Project Management in a Practice Management World
December 11, 2012
The expectations of today's clients cannot be met by the trappings of traditional law practices. Considering the way clients now expect and demand that their lawyers engage with them, using project management is a perfect way to support the process.
I Have Seen the Future ...
December 11, 2012
As the economic outlook has continued to remain uncertain and the inability of law firms to reduce or hold the line on expenses becomes more apparent, law firms are increasingly looking at oursourcing.
Who Is Reviewing Your Firm's Partnership Agreements?
December 11, 2012
This article focuses on the specific areas of law firm partnership agreements that require an accountant's input and expertise.
A Useful Tool for Global Employers
November 27, 2012
For the benefit of global companies with operations in Germany, this article explores how "short-time work" can be introduced, and which rules must be observed in order to qualify for associated government grants.
<b><i>BREAKING NEWS:</i> </b><b>Hewlett-Packard Claims Autonomy Cooked Books</b>
November 21, 2012
Hewlett-Packard Co. said on Nov. 20 that it will take an $8.8 billion write down related to its purchase of Autonomy PLC and alleged that Autonomy executives committed accounting fraud to inflate the company's value during the sale.
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November 14, 2012
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Movers & Shakers
November 14, 2012
Who's doing what; who's going where.
The 'Unfinished Business' of Failed Law Firms
November 14, 2012
Recently, two New York federal district courts reached conflicting decisions in the Coudert Brothers LLP and Thelen LLP bankruptcy cases with respect to a law firm's purported ownership interest in future profits from its former clients' matters pending on the date of the law firm's dissolution, or "unfinished business.
Traditional Cost Recovery
November 14, 2012
The firestorm of publicity regarding clients pushing back and refusing to pay for certain fees, and especially soft costs, begs the question: Is the traditional cost recovery model dying or perhaps already dead? The answer is no.

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