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Who Should Be Partner in a Post-Recession Profession? Image

Who Should Be Partner in a Post-Recession Profession?

James D. Cotterman

Partnerships are viable and sustainable only if there is a consistent and sufficient earnings stream to attract talent to the firm. This is accomplished when all timekeepers are personally productive and profitable.

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Professional Development: Using Social Media to Advance Your Careers and Build Business Image

Professional Development: Using Social Media to Advance Your Careers and Build Business

Rich Klein

Lawyers who are looking to advance their careers and who want to build business should not underestimate the power of using social media to raise their visibility.

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Leadership in the Law: Bring All Your Values to the Table

Debra Forman

If you are not perceived the way you want to be perceived and are not reaching the goals you have set out to meet, you want to re-evaluate your values and determine if your personal brand needs to be tweaked, revamped or potentially overhauled.

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Business of Branding: How to Boost Your Law Firm's Brand Image

Business of Branding: How to Boost Your Law Firm's Brand

Rod Oshins

Every law firm needs to make a strong impression to increase its name awareness, protect and build market share and instill loyalty in its client base. What is your promise to clients?

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Bad News for NY Law Grads

Tania Karas

Just six in 10 of the 4,967 students who graduated last year from New York state's 15 law schools were able to find full-time, permanent employment requiring bar passage by Feb. 15, according to recently released statistics from the American Bar Association.

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Who Should Be Partner in a Post-Recession Profession? Image

Who Should Be Partner in a Post-Recession Profession?

James D. Cotterman

In an increasingly competitive marketplace, with fewer seats at the table, a successful candidate for equity partnership must demonstrate a full complement of personal and professional skills and experience.

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Retaining Valued Associates

Dianne Rosky

Today's global law fims need the expertise international lawyers offer, but they also need those lawyers to write and speak with a clarity approaching that of a native speaker. An overview of the issues and options for helping international lawyers communicate effectively in English.

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Non-Equity Partnerships Are on the Rise Again

Robert Denney

Many changes continue to occur in the traditional partner/associate structure in law firms. Permanent associates, staff or contract attorneys, temporary attorneys, of counsel (in one form or another) and non-equity partners have been added to the mix.

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Best Practices (And Even Better Questions) to Apply to Your Back-Office Operations Image

Best Practices (And Even Better Questions) to Apply to Your Back-Office Operations

Rob Mattern

While the economy continues to limp along and the experts continue to predict a flat legal market, it is more important than ever to ensure your back-office operations are functioning in the most cost-effective, efficient way possible.

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Focused on More Productivity and Higher Profits?

Liz Lamar

Turning time into money begins with the metrics a firm has in place, whether the key performance indicators are being measured and tracked, and how technology is being leveraged to streamline the entire process. technology plays a vital role in not only monitoring and 'policing' these metrics, but financial management and billing technology in particular, can always be tweaked and customized to better firm metrics ' especially as they relate to firm utilization, realization, and A/R aging.

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