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Improving Billing Security Improves Client Experience

Saurabh Mehra

Client service doesn't end before the invoice goes out. Every interaction is an opportunity for the firm to provide the best experience current knowledge and technology is able to deliver — and since security is a key component of what clients want, security needs to be part of that equation.

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IRS Keeps Hold On Employee Retention Credit Claims to Protect Small Businesses from Fraud

Julie Potts

While the IRS has new ERC claims on pause and works to investigate possible fraud, business owners still have the opportunity to protect themselves from potential civil and criminal penalties.

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Partner Pay Spread Increases for Top Law Firms Amid Partnership Model Changes Image

Partner Pay Spread Increases for Top Law Firms Amid Partnership Model Changes

Andrew Maloney

Amid unprecedented billing rate hikes and an escalation of the battle for rainmaking talent, Am Law 100 law firms again raised the stakes on partner pay last year. At the same time, the average spread among Second Hundred firms fell a bit.

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Unbiased Thinking: A Blueprint for Your Law Firm Billing & Collections Transformation Image

Unbiased Thinking: A Blueprint for Your Law Firm Billing & Collections Transformation

Dan Safran

Law firms generally experience a similar set of common challenges and costs tied to inefficient billing and collections practices. This is a cost no firm can afford; and to that end, this article offers a blueprint for transforming billing and collections

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Am Law 100 Insights: How Much Do Realization Rates Actually Matter? Image

Am Law 100 Insights: How Much Do Realization Rates Actually Matter?

Andrew Maloney

In 2023, Am Law 100 firms saw their lowest realization rates in five years. Despite the lower realization, the industry appears to have had a better financial year in 2023 compared with 2022. So how much do realization rates actually matter?

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Am Law 100 Insights: Does Growth In Nonequity Partners Aid Profitability or Hinder It? Image

Am Law 100 Insights: Does Growth In Nonequity Partners Aid Profitability or Hinder It?

Dan Roe

For a long time, the formula for law firm leverage was simple: grow the base of the pyramid by hiring more associates, keep them busy, and profit. But in recent years, that arithmetic is looking more like calculus as expanding nonequity partner tiers increasingly contribute to the law firm leverage equation.

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Law Firms Happy to Trade Falling Realization Rates for Strong Rate Increases Image

Law Firms Happy to Trade Falling Realization Rates for Strong Rate Increases

Dan Roe

While some firm leaders pointed to market factors such as economic uncertainty, most indicated that declining realization rates were a price they were happy to pay in exchange for several years of strong rate increases.

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An Early Look: The 2024 Am Law 200 Financials

ALM Staff

As firm financials results stream in, we're covering them firm by firm, as we've always done. You can read those story in this continually updated feed. So bookmark it, check back regularly, and stay tuned for the Am Law 100 and Second Hundred reports coming soon.

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Revolutionizing Revenue: How 'Invoice to Cash' Innovation Rescues Firms from Billing Woes Image

Revolutionizing Revenue: How 'Invoice to Cash' Innovation Rescues Firms from Billing Woes

Milan Bobde

More and more, firms are understanding that it's the firm's ability to convert its agreed rates through billing and collections to collection realization that really counts. So why is it such a challenge for firms to solve it?

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AI, the Billable Hour and Improving Client Service Image

AI, the Billable Hour and Improving Client Service

J. Mark Santiago

The ultimate guardian of the quality of client service is the partners' own judgement but properly utilizing AI can set expectations that will benefit the clients and the firm and end forever the "End of the Billable Hour" stories.

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