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Estate Planning: Attorneys and CPAs ' Perfect Together
Whether or not a law firm offers its clients estate planning services, the input of a CPA is vital to ensure that a client receives the most comprehensive estate planning advice. Law firms without estate planning capabilities should work closely with accounting firms that do have estate planning expertise in order to realize an additional revenue stream from existing clients.
Cash Management: Know What You Need, Get It, and Put It to Work
The cash-flow statement is the single most important tool for the success of any business. Most lawyers, and even many large law firms, begin to realize that they are in trouble only after the money ceases to come in the door. However, cash flow cessation is usually the last symptom of a downward spiral that started long before.
Virgin Advantage from a New, Near-Shore Corporate Frontier
With bona fides now suitably established, is it possible to actively leverage the USVI's fiber and bandwidth assets to deliver greater competitive and stakeholder advantage to the enterprise? Yes it is; an economic development program chartered in law by the USVI government, sanctioned under U.S. Treasury regulations and managed by the University of the Virgin Islands Research and Technology Park ("RTPark"), may be of particular interest to e-commerce and other knowledge-based businesses.
Practice Building Skills: Marketing Kryptonite That Will Overcome Attorney Objections
According to the author: Yes, you can win an argument with an attorney and get your marketing initiative approved, if you present the right data to get your point across.
Practice Tip: Reducing Product Liability Litigation Costs
This article poses ten questions in-house corporate counsel should ask themselves when they are preparing to defend a case and are in the process of retaining outside counsel.
Seventh Circuit Vindicates Secured Lenders' Right to Full Payment
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held on May 5, 2009, that two secured lenders were fully secured, "entitled to a full recovery" from the debtor ("UAL") despite the bankruptcy court's improper valuation of the collateral (improved airport terminal space) securing the lenders' underlying $60 million loan.
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The Challenge of Strategy Implementation: Tools for Turning Your Firm's Strategic Plan into Action
In the context of law firms, strategic planning represents a methodology for developing a shared organizational view of the desired direction for the firm and outlining the process by which the firm will move in that direction. For many firms, movement along the firm's chosen strategy can be intensely challenging, and too often, implementation efforts fail.
Back to the Future: Alternative Fee Structures Revisited
With the application of non'legal-industry business principles to relationships with their law firms, clients are directly affecting alternative billing structures. And innovative law firms are rising to the occasion.

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