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BYOD: The Illusion of Cost-Savings

Stanley P. Jaskiewicz

The BYOD movement sprang up from employees' desire to have and use their own choice of a smartphone and to be able to better mix their business and work lives. Yet, this modern-day nod to the 19th Century company town has its dark sides.

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Leadership in the Law: Profiting from the Learning Curve

Timothy B. Corcoran

A significantly higher number of law department budgets experienced reductions in 2012 than in the three years prior, so the pressure on outside counsel is likely to increase rather than abate. But are law firms listening?

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The Business of Branding: Websites Aren't Built in a Day

Jeffrey Morgan

Why do law firms assume that one of their most important marketing communications tools can simply be designed and developed in a few short months? Effective websites take foresight and strategy, says the author.

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Affordable Care Act Impacts on Group Health Plans

Warren E. Kingsley & Diane R. Lukin

This article provides an overview of the Summary of Benefits & Coverage (SBC) disclosure and employer-shared responsibility mandate implemented under the Affordable Care Act. Information on SBC compliance and your firm's exposure to the shared-responsibility rules follows.

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Law Firm Marketing Community Loses One of Its Brightest Stars

Kimberly Alford Rice

Visionary. Leader. Mentor. Friend. It is with profound sadness that, as Editor-in-Chief of Marketing the Law Firm, I announce the passing of our esteemed Editorial Board member, colleague and friend, Jay M. Jaffe. Jay was a true visionary whose instincts and thought leadership about legal marketing earned him the reputation as an industry pioneer and one of our country's foremost trusted legal advisers. …

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Are You a Marketing Commitment Phobe?

Kimberly Alford Rice

Are your business development mindset, attitude and efforts working for you? Tips on overcoming your "marketing commitment phobia."

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Dewey & Leboeuf Partner Contribution Settlement Agreements Seek to Avoid the Long and Winding Road of Law Firm Bankruptcies Image

Dewey & Leboeuf Partner Contribution Settlement Agreements Seek to Avoid the Long and Winding Road of Law Firm Bankruptcies

Steven B. Smith & Joy L. Monahan

This article explores the process by which the key parties-in-interest in this case successfully negotiated the Partner Contribution Settlements or PCPs, the rationale behind Bankruptcy Judge Glenn's approval of the PCPs, as well as some of the issues that the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York is currently considering on appeal.

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The 'Unfinished Business' of Failed Law Firms

Robert W. Dremluk & Ryan Pinkston

Recently, two New York federal district courts reached conflicting decisions in the Coudert Brothers LLP and Thelen LLP bankruptcy cases with respect to a law firm's purported ownership interest in future profits from its former clients' matters pending on the date of the law firm's dissolution, or "unfinished business.

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Traditional Cost Recovery

Robert Mattern

The firestorm of publicity regarding clients pushing back and refusing to pay for certain fees, and especially soft costs, begs the question: Is the traditional cost recovery model dying or perhaps already dead? The answer is no.

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2013 - How Many Law Firms Will Survive?

2013 - How Many Law Firms Will Survive? Only one in eight firms have strategic plans, according to a recent ALM Intelligence survey and many don't have the skills and staff to implement them. This is a troubling if not alarming statistic for nearly three quarters of the country's law partners and management. Is it keeping them up at night? How many of those firms will survive the next five years?…

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