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Client Speak: Is the Burden of AFA Here to Stay?
The recent dramatic downturn has created something relatively unknown to law firms: the "insistent buyers' market" (or "ibm"), wherein all the pent-up frustrations of the past have suddenly found a voice and now have to be confronted and no longer ignored.
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Media & Communications Corner: Don't Send That Release (over the Wire)
Law firms and other businesses devote a huge amount time, effort and money to creating and promoting "news" via press releases. But are they worth the time and money?
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For Women in Law, 'Business Development Is Key'
A recent survey of women in law firms found that ' unsurprisingly ' women are concentrated at the lower levels of law firms. That wasn't news to Elizabeth Anne "Betiayn" Tursi, who three years ago helped to found the Women In Law Empowerment Forum (WILEF), a lecture series that focuses on helping women become firm leaders.
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Partial Plan Terminations
Management teams should be aware that reductions in workforce ("RIFs"), while seemingly cost-cutting in nature, can actually yield the opposite result, and can cause unintended and costly consequences with respect to a firm's tax-qualified employee benefit plan.
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Ex-Heller Employees Sue Former Partners
Former employees of Heller Ehrman sued at least 179 former partners in April, demanding they fork over $32 million for the largest group of creditors in the defunct firm's bankruptcy. This article discusses the suit.
JOHN WAYNE ON BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANTS
JOHN WAYNE ON BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANTS - That great American philosopher, John Wayne, may have been speaking to his fellow cowboys when he said "Round 'em up and move 'em out", but he very well could have been talking to law marketers. After all, the three components of the cattle business. . . . GET 'EM - Find good cows and bring them back to your corral KEEP 'EM - Take care of the…
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The Challenge of Strategy Implementation: Tools for Turning Your Firm's Strategic Plan into Action
In the context of law firms, strategic planning represents a methodology for developing a shared organizational view of the desired direction for the firm and outlining the process by which the firm will move in that direction. For many firms, movement along the firm's chosen strategy can be intensely challenging, and too often, implementation efforts fail.
TO LAWYERS SWITCHING PRACTICE AREAS - NOT SO FAST!
TO LAWYERS SWITCHING PRACTICE AREAS - NOT SO FAST! No one has been immune from our sluggish economy. Lawyers are seeing pinkslips and downsizing. It makes sense that lawyers with a healthy survival instinct are switching to bugeoning practice areas like bankruptcy, employment and securities. What is more, attorneys who have experience managing complex cases can translate that skill set to other applications. But does that mean that all your law selling resources should be rerouted…
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Technology in Marketing: Where to Invest Your Marketing Technology Dollars
Law firms have realized that using technology ' particularly the Internet ' is a powerful tool for creating a more level playing field to enhance their images, expand their visibility in targeted markets and drive business to their firms. However, with so many competing interests for limited marketing dollars, where should you invest your firm's resources to get the most bang for the buck?
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