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2019 Was a Record Year for the Am Law 100 But What Will 2020 Hold? Image

2019 Was a Record Year for the Am Law 100 But What Will 2020 Hold?

David Thomas

After a 5% increase in gross revenue and 3% growth in revenue per lawyer, the Am Law 100 were in a good place at the start of 2020. Then a global pandemic started. Now what?

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Adopting COVID-19 Cuts, Law Firms Balance Image and Economics Image

Adopting COVID-19 Cuts, Law Firms Balance Image and Economics

Patrick Smith

Firms Are Applying Communications Lessons from the Great Recession As They Deliver Bad News During the Coronavirus Pandemic. Many firms have appeared in recent weeks to be signaling compassion, embracing (relative) transparency and sharing sacrifices across lawyers and staff. That can help make even painful cuts less harmful for a firm's internal morale and outside reputation.

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How a Law Firm's Comp System Affects Profitability and Partner Satisfaction Image

How a Law Firm's Comp System Affects Profitability and Partner Satisfaction

Hugh A. Simons

Compensation systems are typically a strategic afterthought, seen as the means by which to allocate the spoils of a successful strategy. They're viewed as affecting the level of grousing among partners, but not a firm's performance. The data, however, indicates the reverse is true.

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How to Survive (and Even Thrive) During and After the COVID-19 Lockdown Image

How to Survive (and Even Thrive) During and After the COVID-19 Lockdown

Valerie Chan

The ability to adapt, be nimble and pivot as necessary is crucial to surviving and thriving in ever-changing economic climates. Communicating in the age of social distancing requires a new way of thinking and being — not just in the virtual workplace with our peers but also how we communicate and partner with our clients.

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Adopting COVID-19 Cuts, Law Firms Balance Image and Economics Image

Adopting COVID-19 Cuts, Law Firms Balance Image and Economics

Patrick Smith

Firms Are Applying Communications Lessons from the Great Recession As They Deliver Bad News During the Coronavirus Pandemic. As firms echo their response to the COVID-19 crisis, they are also showing they learned from the experiences of a decade ago, including the negative effects of delivering cuts unevenly, clumsily or with unnecessary secrecy.

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Strategies to Avoid or Reduce Billing Rate Discounts Image

Strategies to Avoid or Reduce Billing Rate Discounts

Eric Dewey

For a large portion of engagements, discounts are not necessary to win the work. In fact, discounts come at a price. Both parties assume a degree of risk when margins are thinned. This article presents several techniques that you can use to re-direct discussions away from discounts and help to minimize their financial impact.

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Law Firm Revenues Rise as Demand Accelerates, Citi Reports Image

Law Firm Revenues Rise as Demand Accelerates, Citi Reports

Gretta Rusanow

There is a lot of good news in the nine-month 2019 industry results. While we might not end the year with the strong growth levels seen in 2018, we anticipate that 2019 will be a decent year. For the first time this year, revenue growth exceeded expense growth.

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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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The Global 100 Are in the Midst of a Growth Spurt Image

The Global 100 Are in the Midst of a Growth Spurt

Dan Packel

The World's Largest Firms Turned In a Second Straight Year of Robust Revenue Gains Amid Near-Universal Progress Mergers, rapid growth among Chinese law firms, and a healthy American market coalesced to turn 2018 into a spectacular year for the world's largest law firms.

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