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Netflix Hiring And Management Strategies Could Help Law Firms Innovate

Law firms can learnfrom the hiring and management processes that have allowed Netflix to grow quickly while maintaining industry excellence, […]

Crunching The Numbers: Law Departments Consolidating Outside Legal Work, And A Big Spend On M&A

LexisNexis has released its Enterprise Legal Management Trends Report (ELM), which details legal department spending trends. Among the findings: More […]

And an Associate Shall Lead Them …

It’s rare for career advice to center around a Kevin Bacon analogy, but legal marketing strategist Adrian Dayton says creating a professional LinkedIn and connecting with other lawyers, even within your own office, can make you more like the ubiquitous actor in a helpful, professional way.

Should You Take on a Client Who’s Forming a Nonprofit?

A few questions in an initial interview can answer the question, Julie Brook with the Continuing Education of the Bar for California says, and indeed may determine if the non-profit should be formed at all.

Alternative Fee Arrangements in IP Cases

Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi attorney Marla R. Butler considers several alternative fee models specifically as applied to intellectual property […]

Visualized Metrics Help Evaluate Law Firms

Law department managers who are digging into the numbers in order to compare the performance of their law firms may […]

Texas Firm Sues Client For Negative Yelp Review

A Yelp user called “Joe B,” who posted a negative review of Grissom & Thompson, alleged that the firm, which […]

Using Sales Professionals In A Law Firm

Some law firms are employing sales professionals, and those that do are finding inherent tensions between the sales people and […]

Effective Service Delivery, Providing Client Value, and Applying Sound Decision Making to Matter Management

In the post-recession legal industry, lawyers must have an arsenal of tools when responding to an RFP or bidding for new work to effectively price a matter, efficiently manage a matter to completion, while also producing value to the client. Cohen & Grigsby, P.C. attorneys suggest essential steps to meeting client expectations in today’s legal services environment.

Every Good Lawyer Should Quit Working on Cases – Problem Solving versus “Working” for the Client

Clients don’t hire lawyers to work on cases – they hire lawyers to solve problems, and keeping that mantra in mind can be key to positive attorney-client relationships, an attorney with Butler Snow LLP says.

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