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Accounting Changes Could Cost Legal Industry Billions
February 28, 2014
While law firms are increasingly modeling their business practices after their clients', one they have not been interested in mimicking is the accrual method of accounting.
Managing Partners and 'Gamification'
February 28, 2014
Many managing partners tell us they are struggling to get their arms around new tools and techniques for driving more efficiency and cost-effectiveness into legal service delivery. Firms are seeing more and more RFPs in which clients make increasingly draconian demands for better management and control of legal work. AFAs (alternative fee arrangements) are reshaping not just pricing and profitability, but the whole way in which matters are staffed and billed.
Preparing for the Affordable Care Act Employer Mandate
February 28, 2014
As of Jan. 1, 2015, the ACA begins to impose certain health coverage requirements on employers who have at least 50 employees. Even though its implications are almost a year away, it is not too soon for employers to prepare for the Employer Mandate. Employers would be wise to figure out if the mandate applies to them, understand the potential penalties that can be imposed on them and, taking into account all of the various considerations, decide if they want to pay or play.
White House Uploads U.S. Cybersecurity Framework
February 28, 2014
President Barack Obama's administration on Feb. 12 released its much-anticipated voluntary cybersecurity framework, giving U.S. companies a common handbook on how they can try to fend off hackers.
Leadership in the Law: Five Ways to Improve Lateral Recruitment
February 27, 2014
Here are five ideas that law firm leaders can embrace to improve their own success rate at finding and integrating laterals into their firms.
'Glass Ceilings' and Women in Leadership Roles
February 27, 2014
This wide-ranging discussion, originally presented at a seminar, introduced statistics suggesting that women still are not reaching the highest level of leadership in law firms and Fortune 500, as compared with their male counterparts.
$1,000 Per Hour Isn't Rare Anymore
February 26, 2014
Nearly 20% of the firms included in <I>The National Law Journal's</I> annual survey of large law firm billing rates last year had at least one partner charging more than $1,000 an hour.
In the News
February 26, 2014
A review of a recent story of interest.
'Parachuting In' to Lead Firms May Be Next Lateral Trend
February 26, 2014
One of the last bastions of law firms operating as a profession ' the near certainty that a lifelong partner of the firm would be the one at its helm ' appears to be changing ...
At the Intersection: Managing Partners and 'Gamification'
February 26, 2014
Is "gamification" a passing fad or a performance enhancement technique destined to be an integral part of the legal profession's "New Normal?"

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