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Key Tax and Financial Considerations for New Law Partners Image

Key Tax and Financial Considerations for New Law Partners

John Fitzgerald & Christopher Imperiale

Being asked to join the partnership of a firm is a measure of success as a legal professional. With that achievement comes tax and financial responsibilities that, surprisingly, few attorneys are fully prepared to deal with. These responsibilities include the unexpected individual federal and state and local tax filing and payments.

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Work Opportunity Tax Credit and On-Boarding

Lawrence L. Bell

With the cost of doing business consistently on the rise combined with the increasing difficulty to find/retain great employees, there is no better time to pursue employment-based tax credits. There are both federal and state employment-based credits available that can help businesses offset income tax liability.

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Case Study: California Law Firm Dowling Aaron Is Transforming and Modernizing Its Prebilling Process with Orion ePrebill Manager Image

Case Study: California Law Firm Dowling Aaron Is Transforming and Modernizing Its Prebilling Process with Orion ePrebill Manager

Gregory N. Miskulin, Jamie Carstens & Lindsay Powell

Orion's ePrebill Manager allows corrections to prebills to be tracked and applied in real time, with a one-click acceptance and approval process. Further, by distributing prebills electronically, attorneys can see the edits made by others, the overall net effect of write-downs, and how these affect the realization of both the working timekeepers and the client overall, in real time.

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A New Philosophy for Managing Partners: Building Consensus Versus Managing As an Autocrat Image

A New Philosophy for Managing Partners: Building Consensus Versus Managing As an Autocrat

Joel A. Rose

An Astute Lawyer-Manager Must Achieve the Appropriate Balance of Building Consensus Among the Partners Applying management techniques to practice areas may introduce to the firm a new take on methods for enhancing profitability.

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Overcoming Legal Finance Misconceptions In 2019

Ari Kaplan

As the volume of litigation continues to grow and the ability to manage it as a defendant or add to it as a plaintiff grows increasingly complex, legal costs will continue to rise in 2019 — and funding advocacy on both sides will remain a lingering challenge.

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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

What Lawyers Can Learn From Dentists Attorneys 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. Yet, here we are at the beginning of another year with many law firms still waiting anxiously for overdue checks to arrive. Shame on us for letting this happen. What can we do differently?

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Athletic Coaches and the Tax Act Image

Athletic Coaches and the Tax Act

Lawrence L. Bell

When the Tax Cut and Jobs Act became law in December of 2017 there was a question whether some of the highest salaried employees at non-profit organizations would be exempt from the $1M remuneration tax. In the majority of states, the highest salaried employees are athletic coaches.

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Are Cybersecurity Solutions and Consulting a New Revenue Stream for Law Firms?

Ishan Girdhar

The Big 4 accounting firms have identified legal services as an area for growth beyond traditional financial services and consulting services.

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Are Cybersecurity Solutions and Consulting a New Revenue Stream for Law Firms? Image

Are Cybersecurity Solutions and Consulting a New Revenue Stream for Law Firms?

Ishan Girdhar

The Big 4 accounting firms have identified legal services as an area for growth beyond traditional financial services and consulting services.

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The Confounding Paradox of Marketing Investment for Struggling Law Firms

Bill Josten

"You have to spend money to make money." Or, so holds the well-worn cliché. For those firms struggling to find meaningful growth in today's market, where do they find the funds they need to spend in order to spur growth?

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