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Practice Building Skills: Building the Ideal Business Development Plan Image

Practice Building Skills: Building the Ideal Business Development Plan

Evan Polin & Chuck Polin

Many attorneys ask us, 'What is the ideal prospecting plan for attorneys? Can't my associates and younger partners just follow our top rainmakers for a few days and then just do what they do?' These are two of the initial questions that we hear when we begin working with law firms. Many attorneys assume that there is an easy magic formula for developing new clients, and if they can just get their hands on this secret formula their business development problems will be solved forever. Unfortunately, our experience tells us that a 'one-size-fits-all' magic formula for success does not exist.

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Client Speak: Client Co-Marketing Image

Client Speak: Client Co-Marketing

Allan Colman

Client co-marketing builds relationships and sends an unmistakable message.

Mid-Market Firms Get Wise to Marketing Image

Mid-Market Firms Get Wise to Marketing

Karen Dean

Welcome to the new era of law firm marketing. It's been a long time coming. The profession didn't even allow formal advertising until the mid-1970s, and now the prospect of selling seems a bit distasteful to some law firm partners. But lately there are signs that some law firms are starting to truly understand the value of marketing and are empowering their CMOs.

Media & Communications Corner: Theresa Jaffe, Chief Marketing Officer, Jenner & Block LLP Image

Media & Communications Corner: Theresa Jaffe, Chief Marketing Officer, Jenner & Block LLP

Jason Milch

When Jenner & Block's Chief Marketing Officer Theresa Jaffe was being recruited for her current job nearly eight years ago, she became intrigued by the marketing challenge that the then-87-year-old powerhouse Firm represented. Here's how she met the challenge.

Corner Office: Uses and Abuses of the Two-Tier Partnership Image

Corner Office: Uses and Abuses of the Two-Tier Partnership

Melchior S. Morrione

By the late 1990s, many law firms adopted a practice that significantly changed the original partnership paradigm. They created a new position, called nonequity, income, or contract partner, into which associates who were not admitted as equity partners could be placed. In effect, they created a two-tier partnership. This permitted them to retain associates longer, with the prospect that equity partnership might still be in their futures. But it was seldom made clear just how far into their futures.

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Three Skills a Lawyer Needs to Succeed

Larry Bodine

The top three competencies or strategies a lawyer needs to succeed today are the abilities to generate new business, to learn the business of his or her clients, and to do top-notch networking. This article offers helpful hints on how to achieve them.

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July issue in PDF format

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Movers & Shakers

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Information about the advancement of lawyers in the patent profession.

<b>Breaking News</B> Supreme Court Buries <i>Dr. Miles</i> Rule of Retail Pricing Image

<b>Breaking News</B> Supreme Court Buries <i>Dr. Miles</i> Rule of Retail Pricing

Tony Mauro

The Supreme Court on June 28 overturned a 1911 precedent ' known by law students everywhere as the Dr. Miles rule ' under which minimum retail prices established by manufacturers were deemed to be an automatic or per se violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

USPTO's Accelerated Examination Program: Speed at a Price Image

USPTO's Accelerated Examination Program: Speed at a Price

David L. Schaeffer

Part One of this series discussed the history of the USPTO's Accelerated Examination procedure and the procedural requirements for applicants. This month's installment continues the discussion of requirements for accelerated examination.

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