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Lawyers: Being Paid Shouldn't Be Like Pulling Teeth! Image

Lawyers: Being Paid Shouldn't Be Like Pulling Teeth!

Peter A. Johnson

What Lawyers Can Learn From Dentists Attorneys have historically let the client lead the payment dance. Lawyers do the work and hope/expect to be paid without waiting too long or discounting the invoice too steeply. Yet, here we are at the beginning of another year with many law firms still waiting anxiously for overdue checks to arrive. Shame on us for letting this happen. What can we do differently?

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The Confounding Paradox of Marketing Investment for Struggling Law Firms

Bill Josten

"You have to spend money to make money." Or, so holds the well-worn cliché. For those firms struggling to find meaningful growth in today's market, where do they find the funds they need to spend in order to spur growth?

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Professional Development: 10 Performance Tips for Your Presentation

Sharon Abrahams

Finally, it has happened. You have reached the stage in your career that others want to hear from you and learn what you know in your area of expertise. You have been invited to speak at a conference. What now?

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Competitive Intelligence: The Wolf of Law Firms — Sell Me This [Insert Legal Service Here] Image

Competitive Intelligence: The Wolf of Law Firms — Sell Me This [Insert Legal Service Here]

Stacy Rowe

While we can't always create the need; we can work to identfy a need. Clients buy because they have a need or want, and successful salespeople do their homework to uncover this intelligence.

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Law Firm Profitability: The Art and Science

Timothy B. Corcoran & Marcie Borgal Shunk

The Manner in Which Law Firm Leaders Measure Profitability Has the Potential to Have a Profound Impact on Behavior and Motivation, Particularly As More Firms Integrate This Metric Into Their Compensation Systems The manner in which law firm leaders measure profitability has the potential to have a profound impact on behavior and motivation.

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Media & Communications: Advising a Client on Crisis Communications — The Three Rs and Three Fs

Janet Falk

If you have not already encouraged your partners to advise their clients of the need to develop a crisis communication plan in advance, and provided some guidance on best practices, do so immediately. As a complement to a well-developed plan, here are two mnemonic approaches to managing communications in a crisis: the three Rs and the three Fs.

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Big Law's Trojan Horse: Are the Big Four Preparing an Invasion?

Dan Packel

<b><i>Law Firms Partner With the Big Four to Serve Their Clients, But the Accountants Pose an Existential Threat. What Will Happen If — or When — They Turn Competitive?</b></i><p>For law firm leaders, rank-and-file partners and everyone else in the law firm ecosystem, the Big Four shouldn't be a laughing matter. They are serious about selling legal services, and clients are listening.

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The Confounding Paradox of Marketing Investment for Struggling Law Firms

Bill Josten

“You have to spend money to make money.” Or, so holds the well-worn cliché. Nevertheless, for those firms struggling to find meaningful growth in today's market, where do they find the funds they need to spend in order to spur growth?

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A Chief Client Service Officer in Action

Kimberly Rice

<i>Marketing the Law Firm</i> recently interviewed Jennifer Papantonio, Chief Client Service Officer of Peckar &amp; Abramson about her significant role, which includes the successes she and the firm have achieved in recent years, how she works collaboratively with firm leadership to create innovative solutions, and her recommendations to law firms which may be considering engaging a Chief Client Officer.

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Three Simple Steps of Marketing Mentoring

Aly Lynch

As experienced marketers, we can help coach newer attorneys in their marketing pursuits through mentoring. With the right assistance, newer attorneys can find ways to market that they actually enjoy and are, therefore, more likely to do. And it doesn't need to be complicated.

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