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Determining Who Should Serve As the Billing Partner Image

Determining Who Should Serve As the Billing Partner

Joel A. Rose

Due to a law firm's team-oriented approach to business development and client service efforts, it is not always clear who should logically and most efficiently serve as the billing partner for a client or a particular client matter. A person should only be a billing partner if he or she is or will be performing the functions outline herein.

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How to Become a Rainmaker Image

How to Become a Rainmaker

Arnold Keiser

Almost anyone willing to develop the qualities necessary can become a rainmaker.

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Marketing Innovative Law Firms

Vivian Hood

Law firms today are increasingly looking at innovation to help distinguish their practice offerings, strategy, and leadership, and need inspiring marketing to develop meaningful campaigns that resonate with their audiences.

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Media & Communications: Grab the Wheel and Drive Yourself!: How Law Firm Marketers Can Grow Professionally … and Some Sage Advice Image

Media & Communications: Grab the Wheel and Drive Yourself!: How Law Firm Marketers Can Grow Professionally … and Some Sage Advice

John J. Buchanan

So, you've been in your role in the marketing department at your firm for a few years. Things are going well — but you want to expand your skill set, try something new, or take on a fresh challenge. The lawyers you work with routinely attend CLE classes so why shouldn't you focus on your own professional development?

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The 'Silly Season' Image

The 'Silly Season'

J. Mark Santiago

That term refers to the months of October through December. It's a way of pointing out to partners that the necessary activities of practice management that so many of them had avoided for the first nine or 10 months of the year now had to be addressed. Clients that had not been billed now had to be invoiced. Outstanding invoices, many issued in the cold days of early March and April, now had to be collected and current work would not only have to be billed but collected as well.

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What Is Your Dashboard Report Telling You? Chances Are, Not Much. Image

What Is Your Dashboard Report Telling You? Chances Are, Not Much.

Jim Jarrell

Firms are struggling to capture compelling business intelligence about themselves. Until recently, most operated with a cadre of legacy operating systems, financial platforms and reporting technologies from different manufacturers that have no mechanism for connecting with each other. The disparate nature of these technologies has exacerbated the struggle to leverage data and display results in a reporting mechanism that helps direct the firm's decision-making.

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Producing Breakthroughs in Client Development Image

Producing Breakthroughs in Client Development

Arnold Keiser

It is easy to understand why many lawyers feel that only certain special individuals are blessed with the qualities necessary to be rainmakers. But almost anyone willing to develop the qualities necessary can become a rainmaker.

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Law Firm Leadership Isn't a Role, It's a Mindset Image

Law Firm Leadership Isn't a Role, It's a Mindset

Michael A. Gerstenzang & Hy Pomerance

When a law firm does not subscribe to a traditional corporate structure At most companies, the leadership structure is typically clear and hierarchical. But what does leadership look like at a law firm when a traditional corporate structure doesn't apply?

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10 Common Misconceptions Lawyers Have About Media Relations Image

10 Common Misconceptions Lawyers Have About Media Relations

Randy Labuzinski

Traditional media continue to evolve and constrict in a marketplace consumed by non-traditional influencers, including bloggers, social media stars, bots. Accordingly, the art of media relations is more important than ever to make sure PR professionals are doing all we can to influence the dwindling number of legitimate journalists while managing and enhancing the public reputations of our law firm clients.

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When Being a Star Rainmaker is Not Enough: Why EQ Leads to Even Better Business Results Image

When Being a Star Rainmaker is Not Enough: Why EQ Leads to Even Better Business Results

Marla Grant & Yuliya LaRoe

Why EQ Leads to Even Better Business Results It is not uncommon for law firms to face negative business outcomes caused by the behavior of a star rainmaker who is unaware of the impact that they have on others. And that's what emotional intelligence (EQ) is about and why it's so important to lead to better business results. What can law firms do to help their star partners increase their emotional intelligence to avoid potentially disastrous business outcomes for themselves and their firms?

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