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The Global 100 Are in the Midst of a Growth Spurt Image

The Global 100 Are in the Midst of a Growth Spurt

Dan Packel

The World's Largest Firms Turned In a Second Straight Year of Robust Revenue Gains Amid Near-Universal Progress Mergers, rapid growth among Chinese law firms, and a healthy American market coalesced to turn 2018 into a spectacular year for the world's largest law firms.

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Resolving Fee Disputes: It's in Your Best Interest, Too

Patricia King 

Lawyers should know that they ignore clients with questions at their peril. The first thing to remember is the client is entitled to an accounting of the fee and costs. No matter how exasperating the client, or how stupid the question appears to be, client questions need to be resolved.

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The 'Silly Season'

J. Mark Santiago

That term refers to the months of October through December. It's a way of pointing out to partners that the necessary activities of practice management that so many of them had avoided for the first nine or 10 months of the year now had to be addressed. Clients that had not been billed now had to be invoiced. Outstanding invoices, many issued in the cold days of early March and April, now had to be collected and current work would not only have to be billed but collected as well.

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When Being a Star Rainmaker is Not Enough: Why EQ Leads to Even Better Business Results Image

When Being a Star Rainmaker is Not Enough: Why EQ Leads to Even Better Business Results

Marla Grant & Yuliya LaRoe

Why EQ Leads to Even Better Business Results It is not uncommon for law firms to face negative business outcomes caused by the behavior of a star rainmaker who is unaware of the impact that they have on others. And that's what emotional intelligence (EQ) is about and why it's so important to lead to better business results. What can law firms do to help their star partners increase their emotional intelligence to avoid potentially disastrous business outcomes for themselves and their firms?

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Litigation Support, E-discovery and the Recovery of Costs

Nathan Curtis

The Data Explosion vs. Recovery Model Stagnation Firms are struggling with a legacy practice of writing off litigation support/e-discovery and related costs but have been challenged to identify and implement recovery models or managed services models that are both acceptable to the firm and to their clients. On top of all of this, many firms simply fail to dispose of the data at the matter closing and costs continue to accumulate year over year. Mattern has launched the first ever e-Discovery and Litigation Support Cost Recovery Survey to gather that needed data to help drive firms' better business decisions.

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When Being a Star Rainmaker Is Not Enough Image

When Being a Star Rainmaker Is Not Enough

Marla Grant & Yuliya LaRoe

Why EQ Leads to Even Better Business Results It is not uncommon for law firms to face negative business outcomes caused by the behavior of a star rainmaker who is unaware of the impact that they have on others. And that's what emotional intelligence (EQ) is about and why it's so important to lead to better business results. What can law firms do to help their star partners increase their emotional intelligence to avoid potentially disastrous business outcomes for themselves and their firms?

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Voice of the Client: 9 Ways You Could Be Hindering New Business Efforts Image

Voice of the Client: 9 Ways You Could Be Hindering New Business Efforts

Mike Mellor

Nine ways you may be hindering your efforts to win new legal business, and a few ideas on how subtle improvements can maximize both success and overall win rates for firms and attorneys.

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9 Ways You Could Be Hindering New Business Efforts

Mike Mellor

Nine ways you may be hindering your efforts to win new legal business, and a few ideas on how subtle improvements can maximize both success and overall win rates for firms and attorneys.

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The Time to Improve Administrative Performance Is Now

J. Mark Santiago

This article focuses on what a firm can do now that will improve future firm economics regardless of what the future may hold. It identifies three areas that offer the great opportunity for improving a law firms' economics and better positioning them for whatever the future may bring.

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Expanding Your Digital Strategy with RPA

Arup Das

Beyond improving efficiency, new advancements in Robotic Process Automation, or RPA, are helping lawyers do more <i>billable</i> work without hiring more people.

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