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What In-House Counsel Need from Outside Counsel As Pandemic Landscape Shifts Image

What In-House Counsel Need from Outside Counsel As Pandemic Landscape Shifts

Jennifer Simpson Carr

The global COVID-19 pandemic forced lawyers — individuals whose relationships formerly depended upon firm handshakes and looking their clients directly in the eye — to build client trust through a tiny camera lens. Here's a Q&A with GCs to discuss what matters most to their companies when hiring outside counsel.

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Five Critical Elements of Business Development Success Image

Five Critical Elements of Business Development Success

Aaron Y. Strauss

While acquiring the skills necessary to develop business is certainly a life-long journey, here are five critical elements to consider from the outset.

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Building Successful Partnerships Requires Collaboration Image

Building Successful Partnerships Requires Collaboration

DeWitt A. Sullivan

Partnerships are relationships, ideally relationships built on trust and a common goal. Successful partnerships require all parties working together — working together to service a client fully, generate revenue and to build a business. This requires openness and coordination.

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Law Firms Try to Hold On to 2020 Savings Image

Law Firms Try to Hold On to 2020 Savings

Andrew Maloney

A once-in-a-lifetime pandemic caused once-in-a-lifetime expense reductions that could forever alter the business of law. After those cost savings fueled double-digit profit growth for many firms in 2020, don't be surprised if Big Law leaders try to make some of those gains stick.

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Utilizing Accountability Partners to Build Business Image

Utilizing Accountability Partners to Build Business

Randi Rosenblatt

Attorneys can utilize accountability partners to fuel the advances one truly wants to make in their efforts to build books of business.

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Scorecards and Client Book Due Diligence Can Improve Lateral Hiring Performance Image

Scorecards and Client Book Due Diligence Can Improve Lateral Hiring Performance

Eric Dewey

The lateral partner challenge is, essentially, a vetting challenge. And yet, few law firms take a strategic approach to vetting and hiring laterals.

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Pandemic Drives Law Firms and Clients to Common Ground on Pricing Image

Pandemic Drives Law Firms and Clients to Common Ground on Pricing

Dan Packel

The current circumstances are giving rise to conversations about pricing, and driving both sides of the law firm-client relationship to seek common ground — both in the form of tried-and-true alternative fee arrangements and those that reflect a more innovative approach.

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Following the Winding Business Development Road Image

Following the Winding Business Development Road

Sheila Murphy

We all know that business and business development will be different post-pandemic, and we are not sure how. This article discusses the trends that lawyers and firms should be tracking and how they should plan and execute when the future is murky.

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Media & Communications: What ALM Reporters and Editors Expect from Law Firms and PR Pros In 2021: Part I Image

Media & Communications: What ALM Reporters and Editors Expect from Law Firms and PR Pros In 2021: Part I

Gina F. Rubel

Instead of sharing my insights, experience and opinions as a 20-year vet in legal public relations, I went directly to the source – the ALM Media editorial staff. Here is what they had to say about the impact of COVID-19 on the industry as a whole and what they want and expect from law firms and PR pros in 2021.

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Why a Mutuality of Services Mindset In Legal Makes for A Better Post-COVID Culture Image

Why a Mutuality of Services Mindset In Legal Makes for A Better Post-COVID Culture

Leigh Vickery

In the legal industry, transitioning to a culture of care poses more of a challenge to law firms than other businesses. What is needed now is for attorneys to seize the chance to reshape their profession and strengthen their position as leaders of our society.

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