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Navigating the SEC's Marketing Rule
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has underscored the critical importance of Marketing Rule compliance through a series of recent enforcement actions and risk alerts. This article delves into the challenges that investment advisers must navigate when marketing their services. It also explores how legal counsel and compliance consultants can effectively support their clients in adhering to both the explicit requirements and nuanced aspects of the Marketing Rule.
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Harnessing AI for Efficiency and Growth: A Balanced Approach
While AI presents valuable opportunities, the excitement around it can sometimes overshadow the need for proper data management and interpretation. Here's a balanced look at how AI can be used to drive efficiency and growth within your firm, along with some key considerations.
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The Rise of the Self-Service Buyer
The self-service buyer is a relatively new concept in B2B professional services. These buyers prefer to gather information, research, and make decisions independently before ever engaging with a service provider. This shift is revolutionary in an industry like legal services, where trust and personal relationships have traditionally driven business development.
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How to Help Lawyers Embrace a Sales Mindset
The idea that lawyers and firms don't — or shouldn't — "sell" to clients and prospects remains widespread. It's time we change this perspective. It's neither practical nor sustainable in a legal services marketplace, where competition to keep clients and attract new ones is intense and the ability to stand out from the crowd is increasingly challenging for both lawyers and firms. It's also not what clients want or what serves them best in the long run.
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Navigating the Legal AI Landscape In 2025
This article explores key insights from the past year, focusing on technological breakthroughs, market growth, regulatory developments, and adoption trends positioning generative AI for broader integration across the legal sector.
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LJN Quarterly Update: 2024 Q3
The LJN Quarterly Update highlights some of the articles from the nine LJN Newsletters titles over the quarter. Articles include in-depth analysis and insights from lawyers and other practice area experts.
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Risks and Ad Fraud Protection In Digital Advertising
The ever-evolving digital marketing landscape, coupled with the industry-wide adoption of programmatic advertising, poses a significant threat to the effectiveness and integrity of digital advertising campaigns. This article explores various risks to digital advertising from pixel stuffing and ad stacking to domain spoofing and bots. It will also explore what should be done to ensure ad fraud protection and improve effectiveness.
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Turning Business Development Plans Into Reality
This article offers practical insights and best practices to navigate the path from roadmap to rainmaking, ensuring your business development efforts are not just sporadic bursts of activity, but an integrated part of your daily success.
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A Roadmap for a Curated Career
A curated career is not a happy accident or a lucky break — it's the result of deliberate actions and choices that align with one's personal values.
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UTMs: Taking Your Social Media Analysis to the Next Level
In the fast-paced world of digital marketing, every click, share and engagement counts. Social media has become a vital tool for businesses to connect with prospects and clients, drive traffic to their websites and, ultimately, boost the bottom line. However, tracking the effectiveness of your social media efforts on a more granular level can be difficult.
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