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LABOR DAY BARBECUES, CELEBRATIONS AND CLIENT RETENTION
September 04, 2009
LABOR DAY BARBECUES, CELEBRATIONS AND CLIENT RETENTIONHard to believe it's Labor Day weekend already – time to celebrate another passing summer, for the kids to head back to school, and of course, to recognize hard working men and women. For lawyers, focusing on sales and client retention, celebrating your contributions is important – but often overlooked.While you're celebrating Labor Day with family and friends, consider the legal sales benefits of celebrating successes with your clients. Won a major settlement or experienced another in-court victory? Treat the client to dinner. Successfully completed negotiations for a merger, acquistion or real estate purchase? Recognize the victory by sending over a case of wine – along with a personally written note of congratulations.Business development training can help you understand the importance of a hand-written note when it comes to building a long-term client relationship and keep you focused on staying in touch. When it comes to future legal sales, the last thing that you want to do is to wait for the client to call you about possible future work.Future law sales depend on staying in touch and subtly reminding your clients of the win and the celebration. By working with a business development consultant to develop strategies for effective marketing, building client relationships and making legal sales, you'll begin to see even more fruits of your labor.Have a great Labor Day weekend!
LABOR DAY BARBECUES, CELEBRATIONS AND CLIENT RETENTIONHard to believe it's Labor Day weekend already – time to celebrate another passing summer, for the kids to head back to school, and of course, to recognize hard working men and women. For lawyers, focusing on sales and client retention, celebrating your contributions is important – but often overlooked.While you're celebrating Labor Day with family and friends, consider the legal sales benefits of celebrating successes with your clients. Won a major settlement or experienced another in-court victory? Treat the client to dinner. Successfully completed negotiations for a merger, acquistion or real estate purchase? Recognize the victory by sending over a case of wine – along with a personally written note of congratulations.Business development training can help you understand the importance of a hand-written note when it comes to building a long-term client relationship and keep you focused on staying in touch. When it comes to future legal sales, the last thing that you want to do is to wait for the client to call you about possible future work.Future law sales depend on staying in touch and subtly reminding your clients of the win and the celebration. By working with a business development consultant to develop strategies for effective marketing, building client relationships and making legal sales, you'll begin to see even more fruits of your labor.Have a great Labor Day weekend!
Major Differences In UK, U.S. Copyright Laws
This article highlights how copyright law in the United Kingdom differs from U.S. copyright law, and points out differences that may be crucial to entertainment and media businesses familiar with U.S law that are interested in operating in the United Kingdom or under UK law. The article also briefly addresses contrasts in UK and U.S. trademark law.
The Article 8 Opt In
The Article 8 opt-in election adds an additional layer of complexity to the already labyrinthine rules governing perfection of security interests under the UCC. A lender that is unaware of the nuances created by the opt in (may find its security interest vulnerable to being primed by another party that has taken steps to perfect in a superior manner under the circumstances.
Strategy vs. Tactics: Two Sides of a Difficult Coin
With each successive large-scale cyber attack, it is slowly becoming clear that ransomware attacks are targeting the critical infrastructure of the most powerful country on the planet. Understanding the strategy, and tactics of our opponents, as well as the strategy and the tactics we implement as a response are vital to victory.
Legal Possession: What Does It Mean?
Possession of real property is a matter of physical fact. Having the right or legal entitlement to possession is not "possession," possession is "the fact of having or holding property in one's power." That power means having physical dominion and control over the property.
The Anti-Assignment Override Provisions
UCC Sections 9406(d) and 9408(a) are one of the most powerful, yet least understood, sections of the Uniform Commercial Code. On their face, they appear to override anti-assignment provisions in agreements that would limit the grant of a security interest. But do these sections really work?