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What In-House Counsel Need from Outside Counsel As Pandemic Landscape Shifts
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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How Do Business Development Efforts In High-Performing Law Firms Differ?
As firms and their clients continue to navigate ongoing business challenges in 2021, BD and marketing professionals first need to understand how mature their efforts are in specific areas. Then, they can look at what the successful firms are doing differently, so they can position themselves to join those ranks.
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Voice of the Client: What In-House Counsel Need from Outside Counsel As Pandemic Landscapes Shifts
Responses from GCs on what matters most to their companies when hiring outside counsel.
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Five Critical Elements of Business Development Success
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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Competitive Intelligence: How Do You Listen When You're Not In the Room?
Although we understood how important in-person listening was before the pandemic, the background listening was something we used to take for granted. Here are five ways to practice active listening and remain engaged when we can't be in a physical environment.
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Building Successful Partnerships Requires Collaboration
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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Business Development: How & Why Law Firms Should Invest In Associates' Business Development Efforts
Many attorneys don't actually know how to scale business and require guidance in order to develop and exercise that muscle. This is precisely why law firms should invest in their associates' business development efforts from the start.
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Law Firms Try to Hold On to 2020 Savings
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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Business Development: When the Road Is Bending
2020 and 2021 have not just been bends in your business development road — it has been more like the road has been placed on top of a roller coaster where you cannot see what the next curve holds.
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Utilizing Accountability Partners to Build Business
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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