Law.com Subscribers SAVE 30%

Call 855-808-4530 or email [email protected] to receive your discount on a new subscription.

Home Topics

Law Firm Management

Features

Executive Benefits at Non-Profits after the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Image

Executive Benefits at Non-Profits after the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

Lawrence L. Bell

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act made significant changes to certain Internal Revenue Code provisions dealing with highly compensated employees. Among these are restrictions (in the form of excise taxes) on compensation of certain highly paid employees of “applicable tax-exempt organizations.”

Features

'Law Firm Leadership:' Creating a Collaborative Work Environment Image

'Law Firm Leadership:' Creating a Collaborative Work Environment

Silvia Coulter

Collaborative cultures soar in profitability, talent acquisition and retention, client retention and client service.

Features

'Competitive Intelligence:' Leveraging CI for Successful Business Development Image

'Competitive Intelligence:' Leveraging CI for Successful Business Development

Jim Jarrell

<b><i>Sometimes You Don't Know What You Don't Know</b></i><p>Over the last decade, the definition of competitive intelligence has evolved to be about all of the data and information I have access to that helps to isolate and leverage my firm's competitive advantage and close the deal on business development opportunities. The more data available to analyze, the better informed your decisions and strategies will be going forward.

Features

Creating a Collaborative Work Environment Image

Creating a Collaborative Work Environment

Silvia Coulter

Collaborative cultures soar in profitability, talent acquisition and retention, client retention and client service.

Features

'Professional Development:' Those Were the Days: Lessons from Silicon Valley's Marketing Culture Image

'Professional Development:' Those Were the Days: Lessons from Silicon Valley's Marketing Culture

David McCann

There were elements of the corporate culture in the early Dot-com years that helped shape my perspective on the critical role marketing could (and should) play in driving tangible and bottom-line business results. Those shaping influences, when applied to law firms, can help us legal marketers realize even greater returns for our internal and external clients.

Features

Will Law Firms Be Ready When the Next Recession Hits? Image

Will Law Firms Be Ready When the Next Recession Hits?

Dan Packel

<b><i>The Bottom Is Eventually Going to Drop on the U.S. Economy, and Many Law Firms Won't Be Positioned to Handle the Fallout</b></i><p>No economic expansion lasts forever. That's a hard-and-fast truth of macroeconomics, one that's on the minds of certain law firm leaders.

Features

Yes, You'll Retire Someday. Avoid These Retirement Financial Pitfalls Now. Image

Yes, You'll Retire Someday. Avoid These Retirement Financial Pitfalls Now.

Justin Peacock

Here are some common retirement planning pitfalls that lawyers often experience.

Features

The Topography of a Strong Attorney Biography Image

The Topography of a Strong Attorney Biography

John Buchanan

<i><b>Part Two of a Two-Part Article</i></b><p>In addition to ensuring that a bio focuses on “the right stuff,” it is essential that the bio be both search engine and social media friendly.

Features

Prospering in the 'New Normal' Image

Prospering in the 'New Normal'

J. Mark Santiago

<b><i>Raising Costs and Declining Demand are Sapping Profits</b></i><p>The “New Normal” of today is one in which raising operating costs, associate salary increases, and reduced realization rates coupled with AFAs and demands from corporate counsel for reduced rates are sapping firm profits and there is no relief on the horizon. Law firm leaders, seeing current conditions, should be asking if there is a better way.

Features

How Cyber Threats Affect Law Firm Marketers Image

How Cyber Threats Affect Law Firm Marketers

Melanie Trudeau

Even though law firms don't generally manage retail-type websites, they are far from immune to cyber threats. In fact, firms are prime targets for cyber criminals.

Need Help?

  1. Prefer an IP authenticated environment? Request a transition or call 800-756-8993.
  2. Need other assistance? email Customer Service or call 1-877-256-2472.

MOST POPULAR STORIES

  • Major Differences In UK, U.S. Copyright Laws
    This article highlights how copyright law in the United Kingdom differs from U.S. copyright law, and points out differences that may be crucial to entertainment and media businesses familiar with U.S law that are interested in operating in the United Kingdom or under UK law. The article also briefly addresses contrasts in UK and U.S. trademark law.
    Read More ›
  • Strategy vs. Tactics: Two Sides of a Difficult Coin
    With each successive large-scale cyber attack, it is slowly becoming clear that ransomware attacks are targeting the critical infrastructure of the most powerful country on the planet. Understanding the strategy, and tactics of our opponents, as well as the strategy and the tactics we implement as a response are vital to victory.
    Read More ›
  • The Article 8 Opt In
    The Article 8 opt-in election adds an additional layer of complexity to the already labyrinthine rules governing perfection of security interests under the UCC. A lender that is unaware of the nuances created by the opt in (may find its security interest vulnerable to being primed by another party that has taken steps to perfect in a superior manner under the circumstances.
    Read More ›
  • Legal Possession: What Does It Mean?
    Possession of real property is a matter of physical fact. Having the right or legal entitlement to possession is not "possession," possession is "the fact of having or holding property in one's power." That power means having physical dominion and control over the property.
    Read More ›
  • The Unlicensed Real Estate Broker in New York: Beware
    The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York recently determined that because New York prohibits unlicensed real estate brokers from pursuing payment in its courts for services rendered, a plaintiff who performed real estate work for a client who then did not pay had no standing to sue.
    Read More ›