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LAW FIRM MARKETING AND DIVERSITY

Allan Colman, CEO, the Closers Group: [email protected]

LAW FIRM MARKETING AND DIVERSITY concludes this series. Efforts to overcome a client's mis-understandings of the value diversity brings can be divided into two fundamental approaches. First, understanding the client. You know his/her predilections on a sensitive social issue. Because you know them, you are able to create a marketing message that balances the equation and maintains the relationships on both ends, with him and with other buyers who have very different predilections. Second, and on…

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When and How Can Departing Lawyers Contact Clients?

Jeffrey P. Ayres

A primer on ethically contacting clients after a lawyer has left his or her firm.

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To Catch an e-Criminal

Ken Stasiak & Dave Kennedy

Someone is stealing electronic data from you ' right now. A person your firm or company has trusted for years is doing things that are making you suspect he or she is stealing. You don't know how or with whom, but you know something is wrong. What do you do? Where do you turn? How do you find out for sure?

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Counsel Concerns

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A Look At Disney's International Legal Team

Leigh Jackson

For Peter Wiley, the Walt Disney Co.'s European head of legal, these are interesting times. His employer, one of the most iconic companies in the world, is engaged in a drive to expand internationally and take the House of Mouse into the digital age.

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When and How Can Departing Lawyers Contact Clients?

Jeffrey P. Ayres

The article herein addresses the related questions of when and how can departing lawyers contact clients in an ethical manner.

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Professional Development: A Guide to Connecting with Potential Clients

Sharon Meit Abrahams

Following are a few tips that will help you feel prepared and confident in potential business development situations.

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Section 79 Planning Opportunities

Lawrence L. Bell, Theodore J. Zouzounis & Stephen M. (Pete) Peterson

Closely held businesses produce over 50% of the Gross National Product ("GNP"). Less than 50% of these businesses have a continuation plan and almost one-third of these companies (29%) use a buy-sell arrangement to assist in their planning. Buy-Sell agreements are very simple tools that over the years have grown to meet increasing needs of closely held businesses.

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LAW FIRM MARKETING AND DIVERSITY

Allan Colman, CEO, the Closers Group: [email protected]

LAW FIRM MARKETING AND DIVERSITY continues the discussion from our last column. Women and minority lawyers will enrich our services to in-house counsel because they bring multiple perspectives to bear on so many legal issues. After all, there is alot more involved than writing briefs and inking contracts. My AGC colleague may still disagree with the benefits underscored in this and the previous column, but by having an open discussion, you have gone a long&#133;

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GIVING 'TIL IT HURTS<i>Developing a Firm Giving Policy</i>

Bruce W. Marcus

There is no firm in business today that isn't inundated regularly by requests for contributions, whether they are for charitable, community or political causes. For the community-minded firm, the requests can be overwhelming, as is the feeling that you do indeed want to help the organization requesting your help. But how can you serve your community ' and frequently, your firm ' without hurting your own firm's budget and community relations? You can say yes'

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