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The Time to Improve Administrative Performance Is Now Image

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, identifying 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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Law Firm Revenue Rose as Demand Dropped in the First Quarter of 2019 Image

Law Firm Revenue Rose as Demand Dropped in the First Quarter of 2019

David Altuna & Gretta Rusanow

The legal industry saw greater revenue growth during the first quarter of 2019 than it did to start the strong year of 2018. However, the drivers of that growth were much different, as the demand growth that characterized 2018 gave way to a demand decline during the first quarter of 2019, and much of the revenue growth came in the form of cash collections from 2018 inventory.

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"Don't Do Stupid" Image

"Don't Do Stupid"

J. Mark Santiago

6 Common Law Firm Accounting Practices That Need to Be Re-evaluated There are a number of tried and true practices in law firms that need more thinking. Not because law firm managers are stupid; it's just that some practices need to be periodically re-evaluated and adjusted to reflect the changing times.

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Best Ways to Expand Key Client Relationships from the Lawyers' and Firms' Perspectives Image

Best Ways to Expand Key Client Relationships from the Lawyers' and Firms' Perspectives

Julie Savarino

<b><i>Part One of a Two-Part Article</b></i><p> For a variety of reasons, many law firms and lawyers struggle to effectively cross-sell or cross-service. This article defines the specific and best actions lawyers and law firms can take to expand client relationships.

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Lawyers: Being Paid Shouldn't Be Like Pulling Teeth! Image

Lawyers: Being Paid Shouldn't Be Like Pulling Teeth!

Peter A. Johnson

<b><i>What Lawyers Can Learn From Dentists</b></i><p>Nobody enjoys visiting the dentist, but everybody knows you still must pay him or her on the day of service. Attorneys, however, have historically let the client lead the payment dance. Lawyers do the work and hope/expect to be paid without waiting too long or discounting the invoice too steeply. What can we do differently?

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Law Firm Mergers and the Economic Outlook for 2019 Image

Law Firm Mergers and the Economic Outlook for 2019

Marcus Dyer

As law firms endeavor to survive in an increasingly competitive world, one strategy picking up steam is the law firm merger. In this article, we recap law firm merger activity in 2018 and consider the economic outlook for law firm mergers for 2019.

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IRS Issues New Plan 457(f) Non-Profit Exam Guidelines Image

IRS Issues New Plan 457(f) Non-Profit Exam Guidelines

Lawrence L. Bell

Planning for executive benefits for top hat employees at non-profit organizations has undergone a frenzy of regulatory roadmap changes. Nonprofit NonQualified Benefits are largely directed and controlled by IRC §457.

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Orion Prebill Survey Shows Law Firms Are Troubled by Inefficient, Paper-Heavy Prebilling Processes Image

Orion Prebill Survey Shows Law Firms Are Troubled by Inefficient, Paper-Heavy Prebilling Processes

Kevin Harris

Prebilling, the process of generating invoice drafts and circulating them for annotation/adjustment, is one of the most important monthly tasks a law firm conducts. Since prebilling involves bringing money into the firm, the more efficient the process becomes, the better off the law firm is financially.

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Clients Drive Information Governance: Business Benefits Flow to Firm Image

Clients Drive Information Governance: Business Benefits Flow to Firm

Stephen Cole

Information governance and the protection of corporate data are top concerns for law firms. To ensure standards are met, some clients are now tying payment to compliance with Outside Counsel Guidelines (OCG). OCG have moved from guidelines to actual contracts that provide for indemnification of the client for cyber breach and violation of privacy laws.

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Sales Speak: Overcoming the Doer-Seller Dilemma

Debra Baker

<b><i>Rethinking Sales As an Act of Service</b></i><p>Lawyers are one of only a handful of professionals whose job requires them both to do the work and generate the business. This “Doer-Seller” Dilemma is particularly vexing for lawyers because of a long-held belief that sales is somehow beneath the legal profession and because lawyers have a limited view of what successful selling looks like.

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