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Taking Control of Your Partner Education Program
After three years of law school, hours spent studying for the Bar exam, and many years toiling away at the associate ranks, new partners often believe that there is nothing new they need to be taught about being a principle of a law firm. The resistance to spending time in a classroom is palpable. It is viewed as tedious and, since partners are rarely compensated for learning or personal development, they are less inclined to "waste" their time.
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Does the SEC Still Care About Financial Reporting Cases?
In recent years, the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) has brought far fewer revenue recognition and other financial reporting cases than it had historically. That leads us naturally to wonder whether this trend will continue in the future. Not likely.
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Redesigning Your Firm's Website
A look at how one firm completely redesigned its website.
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Get Noticed, Get Heard, Get Seen
One of the less understood and less utilized features is how social media can provide a great platform for raising your visibility in the press.
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Professional Development: Developing Charisma
How to gain charisma to help your business prospects.
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Business of Branding: Smart Marketing in 2014
In 2014, you will have to market smarter and make strategic investments to meet your firm's goals.
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Boosting Business by Helping Entrepreneurs
How one firm decided to enhance its online presence with a one-stop resource for founders of new companies and start-ups.
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Nurture Internal Relationships
It is much easier to build a relationship with, and get work from, someone you know and who knows you and your capabilities than going after someone with whom you have no bond at all.
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Subjective and Objective Compensation Systems
Data from the authors' recently published (yet still open to late-comers) Partner Compensation System Survey.
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