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Tight Job Market Threatens Associates’ Spring Bonuses
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Building the Team Concept to Manage and Transition Clients
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Technology Investment โ Any Happy Returns?
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Governance of the Bar
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Raising Fees: Let the Good Times Roll
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Large Firms Are Growing Small Firms Are Not
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Categorized in Management, Audience Type Administrators
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The Importance of Client Communication
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You Canโt Get Run Over if You Stand Behind Your Work
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The Guide to Getting Disbarred
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Thinking About a Transactional Practice? Here Are a Few Rules
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Why Emotional Negotiation is the Wrong Approach
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Cold Calling Isnโt as Grueling as You May Think
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Are You Green Enough?
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The Importance of Becoming Financial Savvy
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Thinking About Selling? Tips to Calculate Your Practice’s Price Tag
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Be Careful to Observe Discrimination Laws to Avoid a Lawsuit
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The Right Way to Handle Old Client Files
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Being a Successful Lawyer Comes Down to This Checklist
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Marketing vs. Selling to Grow Your Business
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Records Retention Can Help Prevent Penalties
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Learn How a Cost Analysis Can Help Determine Break-Even Point
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How to Avoid Unpaid Legal Fees
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Managing Your Clients’ Expectations
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How to Decide When It’s Time to Leave
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Raising Your Fees? 6 Things to Know Before You Do So
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10 Tips to Overcome Growth Challenges
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Marketing Tools to Grow Your Law Firm
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Your Law Firm NEEDS a Website. Here’s Why…
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Here’s How To Use Your Data to Drive Great Profit
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Lawyer Fees: When to Raise Them and When to Not
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Lawyers, Hereโs Why You Should Bond With Your Clients
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Look to Hire a Law Coach? Read This First…
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Retirement: An Overview of Your Business Obligations
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The Two Basic Areas of Sexy Business Purchases
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Embrace Change and don’t be Left in the Dust
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Communication: Crucial for You Business’s Bottom Line
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Retiring? Here Are Your Business Obligations
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Be Prepared for Growth Challenges with These 10 Tips
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Billing Issues: How a Law Firm Should Handle Them
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Cash Flow Management: Advice Every Lawyer Needs
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How Should You Market Your Law Firm?
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It’s 2018. Don’t You Think It’s Time to Change Your Ways?
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Retiring from Law? Ask Yourself 5 Very Important Questions
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What’s the One Thing Millennials are Looking for in a Job?
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Here are the 10 Secrets to Helping your Law Practice Thrive
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This is How You Determine Your Firms Cash Flow…
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Avoiding the nuances of Rule 1.17
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Why Everything you Thought About Selling a Law Practice is Obsolete
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Who Doesn’t Love a Good Ghost Story…mixed with Proper Business Procedures?
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Make Sure You’re Prepared: Creating an Estate Plan for Your Practice
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What are Your Ethical Duties When You Retire?
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Time Management Issues? You’re Not Alone
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The Ever-Present Topic of Equal Treatment: An Ongoing Conversation
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Prioritization: How and Where to Spend Your Time for Future Success
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Lawyer Gone Detective: Eyeing New Clients
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Trying to Grow Your Law Practice? Ten Challenges You May Face…
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POP QUIZ! Where does a Dynamic Firm Get Its Start?
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Avoiding the Nuances of Rule 1.17
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Pro Bono: Still a Hot Debate
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Law firm study: With Size, Comes Growth
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Buying vs. Selling a Law Practice: Traditional Characteristics
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Marketing Tips to Grow your Law Firm
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Disasters: Focus on the People
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Spring Cleaning: More than Dust Bunnies
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Coach's Corner Article
Pro Bono: Beneficial in Theory, Not in Fact
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Where Are You with Disaster Preparedness and Recovery Planning?
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Nix the Job Hopping: Retaining Young Talent
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MDPs: Serving Clients Best
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Equal Treatment: A Continuing Conversation
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Lawyers as Bankers: Extending Credit to Clients
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Trust Accounts and Ethical No-Nos
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Collections Litigation: Taking the “Happy” Out of “Sue Happy”
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Give Gifts… to Yourself
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Good Wishes in These Tumultuous Times
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Change Your Ways
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Feeling the Love: Make Every Day “Love Your Lawyer Day”
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Communication: Ready When You Need It
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People: They’re the Key to Disaster Recovery
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Coach's Corner Article
Lawyers: Yes, Love Can Be in the Air…
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Technology: Prioritize in Money and Time
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Coach's Corner Article
Work-Life Balance: There’s No Such Thing
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Retiring Minds Want to Know…
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Pro Bono: Should It Be Required for Recent Grads?
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Coach's Corner Article
What We Can Learn from the Presidential Candidates
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Learning from the Candidates: Part II
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Speak Up with Confidence
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Job Hopping and Millennials: How To Stem It
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Trust Accounts: Staying on the Straight and Narrow
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Learning from the Candidates: Part I
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Learning from the Candidates: Part I
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Improving Law Schools: It’s Good Business
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Coach's Corner Article
Law School Education: An Eye toward Good Business
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Recent Law School Grads, Put Your Best Skill Forward
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Coach's Corner Article
Law Graduates: Market Yourselves
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An Attorney’s Business Responsibilities of Closing Up Shop
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Coach's Corner Article
The Final Farewell: Business Responsibilities, Part IV
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The Final Farewell: Business Responsibilities, Part III
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Multidisciplinary Practice Groups: The Time is Now
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The Final Farewell: Business Responsibilities, Part II
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The Final Farewell: Business Responsibilities, Part I
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Driverless Cars: Not a Good (role) Model for Law Firms
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Coach's Corner Article
Leap into Extra Planning Time
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Keep Clients Happy: Don’t Nickel ‘n Dime Them
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Coach's Corner Article
Equal Treatment: A Continuing Conversation
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Shop Smart: Tips from Master Shoppers
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Coach's Corner Article
Get Busy in August
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Coach's Corner Article
August: Donโt Play Catch, Play Catchup
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Election Considerations for Your Firm: Marketing Strategy
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Summer’s a Good Season to Think About Marketing
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Coach's Corner Article
Summer: Marketing Opportunities
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Ghosts? Proper Business Procedures Ward Off Scary Occurrences
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Coach's Corner Article
Election Considerations for Your Firm: Banking
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Loans: Learn How to Negotiate for Mutual Benefit
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A Dynamic Firm Starts with Team Dynamic
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Cash Flow: “Top Four” List
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Things are Looking Up — for Now
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Coach's Corner Article
Sexiness: Is Your Image Worth It?
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Cost Analysis and the Mathematical Mix
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Think Twice About Retirement
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Coach's Corner Article
Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst
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Coach's Corner Article
Ghosts?: Nothing to Fear with Proper Business Procedures
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A Strong Firm Knows No ‘Us and Them’ — Only ‘We’
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Coach's Corner Article
Election Year: Elect to Be Prepared
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Prepare, Don’t Despair
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Sexiness Can Grow Your Firm — When It Works
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Marketing via Product Markets
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Make Every Day Your Law Day
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Coach's Corner Article
Billing: Problematic Issues
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Procrastination a Preventable Burden on Tax Day โ and Every Other Day
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Coach's Corner Article
Ten Challenges of Growing a Law Practice
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When Looking to Market Your Firm, First Take a Look in the Mirror
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Coach's Corner Article
Marketing: Products to Sell Yourself
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Pair of 10s: Challenges and Tactics Most Vital to Growth
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Status Reports as a Communication Tool
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Focus on the Law, But Mind Your Business
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Coach's Corner Article
Billing: Client Acceptance Is Key
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To Grow Your Practice, Expand Your Personal Space
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Coach's Corner Article
When Will Sunday Sales Come?
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When Closing Up Shop, Don’t Cut It Too Close
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Coach's Corner Article
Business Considerations: An Overview
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Before Spreading Your Wings in Retirement, Be Sure to Spread the Word
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Coach's Corner Article
Ethics Obligations Up Retirement: An Overview
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Disasters: Take me to your leader, Part 2
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Coach's Corner Article
Retirement: A Family Decision
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Increased Fees: Opportunities Beyond the Paycheck
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Succession Planning: Bar Association and Court Input
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Disasters: Take Me to Your Leader, Part 1
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Coach's Corner Article
Preparing for the Inevitable: An “Estate Plan” for Your Practice
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Coach's Corner Article
Preparing for the Inevitable: An “Estate Plan” for Your Practice
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21st-Century Billing More Than Meets the Eye
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Coach's Corner Article
Special Appearances: Liability and Fee Splitting
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Who Will (or should) Be Your Valentine, Part II
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Coach's Corner Article
Coaching Candidates: Hiring Decisions
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Who Will (or should) Be Your Valentine, Part I
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Coach's Corner Article
Financial Reasons to Focus on Succession Planning
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When Looking to the Future, Be Sure to Protect the Past
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Coach's Corner Article
Raising the Fee Bar: To What Level?
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Resolve to Make Business Resolutions
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Ripples That Can Cripple: Outdated Billing Festers in a Firm
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Coach's Corner Article
Why 2016 May Be the Very Best Year of Your Life!
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Resolve to Beef up Your 2016 Resolutions
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Coach's Corner Article
A New Year: A Perfect Time to Perfect Your Image
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Let It Go (but Not All of It): Revisiting Rule 1.17
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Coach's Corner Article
Think You Want to Raise Fees?: Think Again
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Clients Are Paying for a Lot More than a Final Victory
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Coach's Corner Article
Put Me In, Coach? Consider the 4 Cs to Help You Decide
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Coach's Corner Article
“Social” Media: Professional Should Trump Social for Lawyers
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Putting the Fun Back in Work
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Not All Blogs Are Created Equal
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Coach's Corner Article
Hate Selling? Think Marketing Instead
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Before You Hike Your Rate, Get to Know Your Legal Surroundings
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Coach's Corner Article
Transitions: Time for Reflection
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Raising Rates is Scary, but Missing the Chance is Scarier
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Coach's Corner Article
Dominance: Does the Client Win or Lose?
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Special Appearances Require Special Consideration
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Coach's Corner Article
Loyalty Important for Future Business
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4 Ways to Approach a Fee-Reduction Demand
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Coach's Corner Article
Ethics Panel: OK for Judges to Encourage Pro Bono Work
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Which Comes First: The Firm or the Client?
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Coach's Corner Article
Value Pricing: A Win-Win Situation
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Client Preference is Perishable
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Coach's Corner Article
Scanning: Key to Records Retention
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Raising Fees: Simple as 1, 2, 3
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Sell When You’re on a High, Not Feeling Low
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Coach's Corner Article
Time Management: Criteria to Help You Shape Your Days
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Complacency Means the Death of Success
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Coach's Corner Article
Dominance: of Canines and Counsel
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Coach's Corner Article
A Rough Industry Guideline to Expense Tracking
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Coach's Corner Article
Don’t Count on One Big Fish
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Management: Staying at the Top of the Roller Coaster
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Retainers Can Solidify Client Confidence โ and Payment
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Coach's Corner Article
Staff: Valuing What Others Have to Offer
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Negotiating the Negotiations Process
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Know the Four W’s and the H of Cash Flow Statements
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Coach's Corner Article
Driving Profits Through Data
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Five Steps to Combat Late (Or Absent) Payments
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Coach's Corner Article
Bank Loan Terminology
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Prove Your Worth By Providing Value, Not Just Service
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Coach's Corner Article
The Bank: Form Several Hallmark Card Relationships
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Be Well-Prepared for the Loan Process With the ‘7-10 Split’
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Coach's Corner Article
It’s Time. You’re Going to Take the Plunge.
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Coach's Corner Article
Raising Fees Right: Phased Approach Eases the Transition
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Coach's Corner Article
Scanning: Key to Records Retention
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Taking Definitions Into Account
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Coach's Corner Article
Trust Account Safety: Should You Bank on It?
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Even Helpers Sometimes Need A Helping Hand
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Coach's Corner Article
Accounting for Accounting Records
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The Friendly Habits of Highly Effective Rainmakers
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Coach's Corner Article
Websites: Don’t Overlook This Marketing Tool
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Continuing Education Not Just For Firm’s Lawyers
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Coach's Corner Article
Occupancy Overhead: Is Cost the Only Consideration?
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There is No Magic Number for Occupancy Overhead
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Coach's Corner Article
What Does Your Office Say About You?
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Fees: Make Sure the Price Is Right
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Yes, You Scan — Take No Chances With Your Records
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Coach's Corner Article
Hourly Rates: In Their Darkest Hour
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Make Sure You’re Worthy of A Client’s Trust
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Coach's Corner Article
Stop Whining and Start Collecting
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Appraisal Versus Sale
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Coach's Corner Article
Ed Interviews Pactsafe Founder, Brian Powers
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Podcast
When It Comes to Credit, Attention to Detail Paramount
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Coach's Corner Article
Pension Funds: Are They What They Seem to Be?
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No Time to Save Trees When Drafting a Fee Agreement
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Coach's Corner Article
Virtual Assistants: Virtually Perfect Outsourcing
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Little Anticipation Now Means No Playing ‘Ketchup’ Later
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Coach's Corner Article
Putting Yourself Last…
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Hit a ‘3-Pointer’ By Enlightening — Not Just Charging — Your Clients
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Coach's Corner Article
Temps: A Temporary Solution to a Temporary Problem
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When Looking for Answers, Don’t Forget to Ask the Questions
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Coach's Corner Article
Not Quite “Dancing with the Stars,” but…
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Service: A Counterweight to Commoditization
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Coach's Corner Article
You Get What You Pay For
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Scarier Than a Speeding Bullet …
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Electronic Data Protection: The How-Toโs
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Coach's Corner Article
WordPerfect is Alive and Well
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When Considering Your Most Prized Relationships, Don’t Forget Your Bank
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Coach's Corner Article
The Bill: Marketing in Disguise
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Cash Flow Management and Business Development
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Article
Prioritizing Wants Versus Needs
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Coach's Corner Article
Law: Getting Down to Business
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When It Comes to A Business Plan, Get Logical About Logistics
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Coach's Corner Article
Transition: The Long Goodbye, Part II
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Transition: The Long Goodbye, Part I
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That Dirty Six-Letter Word:
Budget
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E-Mail: Taking the Snail out of Mail
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Water, Water Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink
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Turning a Blind Eye to the Eye of the Storm
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Interview with Brett Burney, Technology Consultant and Chair of the 2015 ABA Chicago TechShow
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Podcast
Malpractice and Bar Discipline May Not Be the Same
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Podcast
Preparing for a Confidentiality Disaster
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A Complete 360? Try 90 Instead
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Marketing: Plan to Plan
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Job Descriptions Are More Important Than You Might Realize
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Coach's Corner Article
Profitability: Internal and External Faces
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Careful, Techie: You Might Get What You Wish For
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Coach's Corner Article
Eying New Clients: The Lawyer As Private Eye
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Trust Accounts: Accountability, Access, and Advantages
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Article
The Starting Point for Planning is Information
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Coach's Corner Article
Perfection, Deadlines, and Cost-Effectiveness: A Delicate Balance
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This Year, Resolve to Plan
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Coach's Corner Article
The Intake Interview: Making Expectations Clear
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Saying Farewell to Your Law Practice
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Article
Banking: More Than Just Checking and Savings
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Social Media: “Circumspect” Is the Operative Word
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Marketing: Keep the Personal Touch in the Mix
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In Customer Service, Same-old Same-old Never Gets Old
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Coach's Corner Article
Freebies Buy Loyalty
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Driverless Firms Unsafe At Any Speed
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Coach's Corner Article
Lawyers: Feast or Famine?
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Shine By Getting Smaller, But Don’t Forget The Big Picture
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Coach's Corner Article
Law: Business Skills As Important As Legal Skills
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Disaster Preparedness Essential for Long-Term Survival
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Coach's Corner Article
Low Prices: Don’t Undercut Your Image
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Keep the Pedal to the Metal
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Congrats — You Finally Launched A Website. Now Get To Work
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Coach's Corner Article
Solidify Your Collections Policy Now — Or Pay Later
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Coach's Corner Article
Lies WILL Come Back to Haunt You
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Achieving Civility Means Managing Relationships
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Article
Selling Your Practice: Getting What It’s Worth
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Article
Closing the Door Behind You
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Article
6,000 Reasons to Make a Retirement Plan
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Coach's Corner Article
Immortality in Law and Life
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Attach Price to Promise When Billing Initial Consult
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Coach's Corner Article
Cash Still Rules the Payment Roost
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Coach's Corner Article
Protecting Passwords = Protecting Self
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Fixing the Problem of Fixed Costs
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Speak and Write for Success — Interview with WordRake Founder Gary Kinder
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Podcast
Accept Success Not as ‘How Much,’ but ‘How Well’
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Coach's Corner Article
Successful Legal Partnerships: A “Marriage” of (Conversing About) Means?
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Outsourcing Is In
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Article
Will You Die Without a Will?
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Newsletter
Warning: Fake Firms Might Be Operating with Your Identity
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Making Your Firm a Household Name
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Coach's Corner Article
Discrimination Always Key Business Concern
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Clients Are No. 1 in Model Rules — and in Your Practice
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Coach's Corner Article
If It Seems Too Good to Be True….
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Newsletter
Lawsuits Don’t Discriminate Among Discriminators
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Coach's Corner Article
Tasty Financial Lessons from Restaurants
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Newsletter
Nothing Fishy About Making A Good Impression
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Coach's Corner Article
AI A Harsh Reminder to Focus on Personal Service
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Coach's Corner Article
Financial Savvy: Make It a Priority
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Newsletter
Banking with CDs: A No-Risk Gamble
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Newsletter
Asian-Infused Law Firms in California
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The Recession May Be Over, But The Lessons Remain
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Coach's Corner Article
Malpractice Claims Live On … and On
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All That Glitters is Not Subject to Employment Laws
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Coach's Corner Article
Advertising Should Create Friends, Not Enemies
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Newsletter
Firms May Disappear, But Goodwill Remains
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Coach's Corner Article
Saying No to No Contest Pleas
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The Lawsuit You Can’t Win
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Coach's Corner Article
Be There or Be Square
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For Successful Lawyers, the Learning Never Ends
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Coach's Corner Article
Open Books: An Open-and-Shut Case
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Article
Putting a Price Tag on the Value of Coaching
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Newsletter
Running a Business is No Tea Party
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Coach's Corner Article
Success: Don’t Hold Your Breath; Make It Happen
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Newsletter
‘Clawback Case’ Ruling Marks a Step Backward
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Coach's Corner Article
Civility: New Addition to California Oath
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Newsletter
How to Raise Rates Without Raising Ire (Ask Netflix)
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Coach's Corner Article
Switch Gears – Within the Legal Profession
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Newsletter
While Credit Cards Still Reign, Be Part of the Plastic Kingdom
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Coach's Corner Article
When It Rains, It Pours
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Outsourcing A Beneficial Business Source for Law Firms
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Coach's Corner Article
A Mouth Is Not a Good Place for a Foot
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Newsletter
Compensation Division: More Than Simple Math
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Coach's Corner Article
Government and Lawyers: Never the Twain Shall Meet in Expense Reductions
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Article
A Lawyer’s Biggest Challenge: Collections
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Coach's Corner Article
Business Models: Keeping It Fresh
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Newsletter
Hold On: Temper Your Cell Phone Use
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As Suits Mount
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Coach's Corner Article
Lessons Learned from Election-Year Politics
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Eyes Don’t Cloud the Windows to Your Soul
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Newsletter
Real People Still Drive Effective Marketing
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Coach's Corner Article
Prioritization: Don’t Allow Urgency to Trump “Merely” Important
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A Strategy Worth Repeating: Revisit Your Business Plan Often
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Coach's Corner Article
Good Captains Don’t Jump Ship
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Coach's Corner Article
Government Surveillance: Is Client Confidentiality Out the Window?
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Article
Compensation: How to Divide the “Pie”
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Newsletter
Lawyer-Client Confidentiality: A Casualty of NSA Surveillance?
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Prioritization Models — Urgent Doesn’t Always Mean Important
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Coach's Corner Article
Compensation Models and Incentive
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Compensation Models: Which is the Most Incentivizing?
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Coach's Corner Article
Go on the Offensive and Win the Game
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Financial Benchmarking No Benchmark for Success
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Coach's Corner Article
A Grant Whose Time Has Come?
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Newsletter
Be “Offensive” to Succeed
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Article
Sweeten the Deal for Your Firm with Dash of Goodwill
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Coach's Corner Article
‘Diploma Privilege’ May Be Death Knell for Bar Exam
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Coach's Corner Article
Testing the Staying Power of the Bar Exam
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American Anger, Canadian Cvility – The Impact of Legal ‘Road Rage’
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Coach's Corner Article
Going Green is a Good Business Decision
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Rise in Firm Sales Prompts Questions About Rules
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Coach's Corner Article
Ageism Not The Remedy to Attorney Overpopulation
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Coach's Corner Article
Honesty, Ethics, and Image
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Newsletter
‘The Perfect Legal Storm,’ Starring … You
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Coach's Corner Article
A Debt-Free Firm: Lessons Learned from the Winter Olympics
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Newsletter
Pricing Legal Services
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Coach's Corner Article
Perils and Parameters of Partnership Withdrawal
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Coach's Corner Article
Truth in Humor: Words of Wisdom from Jay Leno
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Newsletter
Bar Associations Goals Not Always Clear
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Coach's Corner Article
State of the Law Profession Address
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Newsletter
What Would Motivate You to Change?
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Newsletter
More on Pricing Practices for Attorneys
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How to Assess the Office Your Law Practice Needs
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Retract Your Fangs, Lawyers
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Does Your Firm
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The Dangers of a “Clawback”
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Throwing the Value of Your Estate Away
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The Essential Security Tool You Never Want to Use
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Data Security is a Professional Responsibility
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Empathy The Missing Ingredient in Poor Client Relations
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Responding to a Write-down Request
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A Motion that Improves Lawyer Mobility
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The Most Feared Word…
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Collect First, Market Second to Remedy Sinking Revenue
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When Is It Acceptable to Accept Credit Card Payments?
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A Step-By-Step Process for Introducing a Successor
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Would Your Firm Pass a Data Security Audit?
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Law and the Art of Analysis
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Law Practice & Case Management Tips From Industry Expert Ed Poll, Part 2
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Law Practice & Case Management Tips From Industry Expert Ed Poll, Part 1
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Overwhelmed? You Won’t Be If You Take Charge
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Associate Transition or Associate Takeover?
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What Is “Reasonable” for Contract Lawyer Fees?
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Phone Calls. Return Them.
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It’s All About Perspective
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Look Out for the Potential Ramifications of Outsourcing
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Would You Invest in This Industry?
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What Does Value Billing Really Mean?
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Admission by Motion Picking Up Steam
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The Long Tail of the Law
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Smooth Operator
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Market May Change What Bar Associations Won’t
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All Partners Are Equal, But…
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Promise is a Luxury in Economy Demanding Production
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What’s Your Endgame? Better Have One
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The Wheel of Engagement
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Too Much Work, or Too Little?
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There’s No Such Thing as Successful Multi-Tasking
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Goodwill Is Your Practice’s Legacy
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IOLTA Guarantees – Time to Start Worrying?
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Carrying Too Many Lawyers — Or Clients — Is Fiscal Suicide
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The Slippery Ethical Slope of Social Media
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Model Rules Meet Modern Technology
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Accept the Discipline of Ownership
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Fee ‘Write-Down’ Could Save You Headaches — and Dollars
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“Older and Dumber”
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“Caveat Emptor” No Way to Practice Law
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The Law School “Game”: Win One, Lose One
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The Cycle of Life for Law Firms, Technology
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Should Pro Bono Be Considered Mandatory?
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Nepotism Preferable to Dissolution
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A Social Media Victory for Lawyers
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Charging “Swipe Fees” to Credit Card Clients May Be Bad Practice
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Beware of Compromising Justice for Dollars
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When The Court Reaches Out to The Grave
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No and Yes: Use the Scanner!
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‘Super’ Benefits of Becoming A Thought Leader
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Pro Bono Mandate Problematic for Lawyers
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The 1%, the 99% and the Future of the Legal Profession
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When A Fixed Fee Needs An Hourly Rate
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Consider the Advantages of an Alliance
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The “Social Security Crisis” Comes to Law Firms
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Could Your Solo or Small Firm Practice be a Virtual Success?
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Big Firms, Big Capabilities – But Small Firms Thrive on Details
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The Latest Chapter on “Overpaid” Lawyers
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Law Student Loans Key Component of Next “Debt Bomb”
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Can Law Firms Afford Pensions Anymore?
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Change Is in the Air
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Overcoming Stress By Gaining Control
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Yes, You Have a Right to Get Paid
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Scanning Brings a New Dimension to Legal Precedent
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Points And Counterpoints On In-House Counsel Tips
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Still
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Farewell, Firm Overhead: How Forming Alliances Gives Small Firms Big Savings
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How Firms Can Thrive in the “New Normal”
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Financial Fraud: Trouble from Honest Mistakes and Dishonest Conduct
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Technology and the Law Firm Life Cycle
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Can You Love Stress?
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More Causes of Action Than Ever
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Pop Quiz: Do You Have What It Takes To Start A Firm?
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Who Should “Run” Your Firm?
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Q&A Law Firm Sale Transactions
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Does Your Staff Understand The “New Normal?”
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Effective Marketing Easy As “Five Cards And Three Feet”
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Compute The Real Costs Of Lawyer Telecommuting
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If You Don’t Have A Plan, You Don’t Have A Chance
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When Does Marketing Happen?
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In A Competitive Market, Don’t Look Back
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Don’t Leave Receivables in Limbo
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Paperless Paths โ A New Business Dynamic for Law Firms
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Article
Associates Are Still Unhappy – And for Better Reasons
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Stop Working Long Enough to Save Your Biz
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When a Picture (of You) Is Worth a Thousand Words
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Whether “Mission” or “Vision” Create Consensus About Goals
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What Does It Take to Get Disbarred?
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Are Some Firms “More Equal” Than Others?
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Coach's Corner Article
Maximizing Information Technology Return on Investment
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Article
How Small Firms Can Win the Marketing Marathon
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Technology As a Business Development Tool
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Technology Tames the Records Beast
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Are Attorney’s Fees an Endangered Species?
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No Guarantees With Attorneys’ Fees
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Technology and Coaching, Like Love & Marriage?
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Do Your Due Diligence on New Clients
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Ask Yourself, Will You Be Successful in 2012?
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Fee-Suite Exclusions Muddy the Malpractice Waters
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Coach's Corner Article
The Art of the Brochure, An interview with Lawrence Wolf, Esq.
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Podcast
Higher Education, Higher Cost, Higher Unemployment
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Who Owns a Departing Lawyer’s Receivables?
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Coach's Corner Article
When Smaller Is Better
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The Three-Dimensional Transformation in the Business of Law
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Top 10 Ways to Increase Revenues in ’12
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The Faces of Law Firm Financial Impropriety
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Are Firms Better Managed by Non-Lawyers?
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Video
Kindling an Appreciation for New Technology
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The First Rule of Cash Management: Prompt, Personal Deposit
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Take a Break from the Holiday Rush
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Don’t Be Afraid to Keep Things Moving
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Is There a Difference Between a Mission and a Vision?
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Web May Be Key to Cracking ‘Monopoly’ of Law
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Coach's Corner Article
The Potentials and Perils of a Virtual Law Practice
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Article
Is There a Saving Grace for State Bar Self-Regulation?
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Make Yourself Indispensable Through Client Connections
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Coach's Corner Article
How Can You Lay the Foundation for an Engagement Agreement?
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Attitude Adjustment for New Lawyers
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Article
Are You Cool or Smart With Your Technology Buys?
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Are Law Schools Guilty as Charged?
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Coach's Corner Article
What Are You Afraid of?
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Scanning’s Role in Enhancing Technology ROI
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Article
Coaches Offer ‘Outside Eyes and Ears’ That Mentors Can’t
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Coach's Corner Article
Not If, But When: Prepare a Disaster Recovery Plan Today
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Article
he Seasons of Your Career: Winter, When Careers Transform
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Article
The Gift of Better Client Relations
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Article
Collaboration Is the Key to Law Firm-Corporate Client Relationships
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Article
How Do You Fully Leverage Paralegals?
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Lawyers Must Prepare to Go Global
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Coach's Corner Article
Secrets of Successful Attorneys
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Article
Leveraging the Value of Paralegals
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Article
How Do You Fully Leverage Paralegals?
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Podcast
Looking for Ways to Improve Your Practice by Working With Other Lawyers?
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The Trend Can be Your Friend, If You Embrace It
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Coach's Corner Article
The Planning Process: Navigation vs.White Water Rafting
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Article
Are You a Leader?
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Devoting Energy to Payment Collection is Time Well Spent
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Article
Concentrate Marketing Efforts on Clients, Not Airwaves
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Coach's Corner Article
Success is in the Details When Law Firms Combine
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Succession Planning By The Numbers
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Coach's Corner Article
The Trend Can Be Your Friend – If You Embrace It
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Article
It’s a Great Country and a Great Profession – Wherever You Go
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The Real Worry About Your Competitors
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Article
Strategies to Leverage Paralegal Capabilities
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Article
Understanding the Financial Aspects of Impending Retirement
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Article
Structuring Compensation for a Competitive Market
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Article
Technology as the Catalyst of a New Legal Dynamic
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Article
Discovery in a New World
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Success May Be Matter Of Degree In Alternative-Fee Setup
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Coach's Corner Article
What is a Successful Lawyer?
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In-House Counsel Should be Prepared
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Article
The Seasons of Your Career: Autumn, When Careers Mature
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Article
To Every Lawyer There Is a Season
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Take The Mystery Out Of Financial Metrics
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What to do as a Law Firm Leader
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Article
Do-It-Yourself Practice Success
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Engagement Budgets: The Key that Unlocks Collections and Cash Flow
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How Do You Increase Revenues?
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The Seasons of Your Career: Summer, When Careers Grow Fastest
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Article
How Do You Manage a Transactional Practice?
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Internet Security a Virtual Requirement
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Article
A Lawyer’s Paths to Success
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Article
What is a Businesslike Law Firm?
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Scanning Bridges the Technology Language Gap
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Article
Succession Planning
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Video
Can You Be Too Successful at Collecting Fees?
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What’s the Best Way to Get More Business?
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Tips for Increased Revenue
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Video
Must Growing Your Practice Mean Growing Your Firm?
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Article
Where Will the Cash Come From?
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Article
A Lawyer’s Many Paths to Success
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Coach's Corner Article
New Twists in the Lawyer Job Market
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Controlling Clientsโ Legal Costs
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Video
Keep Outside Counsel in the Loop
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Coach's Corner Article
Collecting Your Fee Begins at the Intake
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Video
Can You Maintain a Second Practice?
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Internet Security a Virtual Requirement
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Coach's Corner Article
An Update on IOLTA
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What Law Firm Leaders Should Do
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Coach's Corner Article
Why Do Clients Leave Their Law Firm?
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Video
Making Alternative Fee Arrangements Work in Litigation
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Technology Investments and Two-Handed Decision Making
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Article
New Rules Are Changing the Law School Game
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Article
Show Me the Money
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Why Clients Refer Their Law Firm
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Video
Is the End of the Bar at Hand?
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Coach's Corner Article
Your Lease is a Strategic Planning Tool
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Article
What Are Clients Looking For Anyway?
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Video
Phone Pet Peeves
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How to Win The Lateral Hiring Game
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Smartphone Explosion a Tough Cell
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Coach's Corner Article
Bringing Cloud Decisions Down to Earth
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Managing Client Expectations
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Video
Is Marketing Worth It?
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Avoid the Lateral Hiring Merry-Go-Round
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Coach's Corner Article
Do YOUR Netowrking Plans Require Real People?
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Article
Are You Indispensible?
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You’re A Practice Group Leader — Now What?
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Coach's Corner Article
Is the end (of the Bar) at hand?
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Article
Leader, Owner, Producer — The Conundrum of Law Firm Management
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Article
Are Big Law Firms Really That Different?
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The Missing Ingredient for Women Lawyers
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Why Marketing Matters for Lawyers, Part 1
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Video
No Firm Needs To Be An Island
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Coach's Corner Article
Get What They Owe You
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Article
When Do Files Die?
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Can Non-Lawyers Own a Law Firm?
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Coach's Corner Article
The Times, They are a Changinโ, Part 3
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Video
Is Your Environment Supporting Your Practice?
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Every Client is a Potential Collection Problem
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Coach's Corner Article
LawBizยฎ Legal Pad: The Times, They Are a Changinโ, Part 2
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Video
Can Non-Lawyers Own a Law Firm?
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Coach's Corner Article
View Clients in Their Native Habitats
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Should There Be a National Bar?
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An Inclusive Firm is a Happy Firm
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The IOLTA Update
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Would You Accept Your Own Response?
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Cutting Overhead Can Be Painful Procedure
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Stephanie L. Kimbro Talks with Ed About Virtual Law Offices
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Darryl Cross of LexisNexis Discusses Differences Between Marketing and Selling
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Introductory video โ Who I Am and What I Do
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The Motivation for Selling Out
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Do You Realize How Much You’re Billing?
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“Can’t We All Just Get Along?”
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Take Care of Time, and it Will Take Care of You
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Chill Out Over Cold Calls
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Are You Cheap… or Reasonable?
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A Law Firm Should Not Be a Bank
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No Firm is too Big to Fail
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Do You
Still
Want to Be a Partner?
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Growing Up SMART
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Inflexible Firms Risk Losing Both Clients And Partners –
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A Firm Can Be Too Good โ And a Client Can Be Too Big
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Know the ROI on Your IT
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A Credit Line Belongs to the Bankโ Not to You
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Patrick Lamb, talks about pressures on legal fees resulting from the financial crisis.
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Recession Survival is Three-Part Cycle
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It’s 10pm – Do You Know Where Your Trust Funds Are?
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When the Coach Runs the Plays
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I Need Your Help
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A Passage to India: Making Outsourcing Pay
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Making a Retainer Relationship Work
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Are You Engaged in ‘Civil’ Practice?
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Blogs as Marketing Tools: How Administrators Can Keep the Process Realistic and Effective
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Article
Rick Borstein, talks with Ed about new products from Adobe
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Podcast
Law Firms Can Advance with a Retreat
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Some Perspectives on the General Counsel’s World
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Taking a Glance at the Dashboard
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Successful Planning Is No Accident for Law Firms
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Get Paid Faster While Keeping Clients Happy
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Article
Karl Robe, Yalks with Ed About Public Relations and Image
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Can You Compete Against a Paralegal?
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A Flat Fee Is Really a Guarantee
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Cold Calling Redux: How Bar Counsel Missed The Point
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You Can’t Get Run Over If You Stand Behind Your Work
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How Do You Know Until You Ask?
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Why No One Dreams of Becoming Managing Partner
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Coach's Corner Article
Keys to Client Service: Addressing What Lawyers Don’t Learn in Law School
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Article
“Above All, Try
Something
“
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A Law Firm Model That Gives Clients What They Really Want
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Hotels for Lawyers
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The Bottom Line on The Cost of Associate Loyalty
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A Status Report on Loyalty
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A Broken Management Model
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There are some things a lawyer can guarantee
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Coach's Corner Article
Selling a Properly Valued Practice Can Turn Fear Into Opportunity
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Article
These Win/Win Tips Will Keep Your Firm’s Cash Flowing
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Article
The Money You Take Depends on the Money Your Firm Makes
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Article
Corporations Are from Venus, Law Firms Are from Mars
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To Retain or Not to Retain: That’s the Question for Clients
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Coach's Corner Article
Bruce Callow, Talks About the “Dashboard” Concept
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Podcast
It’s Not Lawyers and Staff – It’s a Firm
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Facing Reality When a Firm’s Survival is at Stake
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The Power of Personal Contact
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The Taxing Matter of Taxing Legal Services
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If It’s Good Enough for the Airlines…
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How to Break the Ice with ‘Cold Calling’
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Coach's Corner Article
Stewart Levine, talks to Ed about Collaboration and Conflict Resolution
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Podcast
What’s Your Rating?
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Is the Price Right? Don’t Let Technology Upgrades Become Financial Downgrades
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Article
When Posting to Social Network, Be Sure to Use ‘Sharer’ Discretion
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If All Else Fails, Sue
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As Workload Increases, So Should Fees
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Cash Reigns Supreme
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Clients May Not Buy When Firm Brands Its Attorneys as ‘Products’
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Mark Britton Talks About the Avvo Lawyer Rating System
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Podcast
Make Sure You Get What You Pay For
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Are You in The ‘Red Zone’?
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Coach's Corner Article
Jay Larock, Director of Product Management for Corel WordPerfect Office, talks about the new WordPerfect
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Who’s Calling, Please?
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Anthony E. Davis Talks About Risk Management
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Podcast
Mike Downey talks about Alternative fees: Another way to have the fee conversation with your prospective client.
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Podcast
Do As We Say, Not As We Do
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Coach's Corner Article
It Can Be Tough to Figure Out the Score
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He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Client
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Coach's Corner Article
Don’t Cut Muscle Along With the Fat
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The Billable Hour Trap
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Coach's Corner Article
Take a Deep Breath…
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‘I want to Thank All the Little People …’
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Coach's Corner Article
Law Firm Lessons from the Court
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The SMART Way to Do Marketing
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Being Prepared: Disaster Recover Is All About People
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Article
How Big is Too Big?
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Risky Business: Lawyers and Insurance Ethics
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Coach's Corner Article
What Do You Know About Money?
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Would a Recession Be Legal?
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Coach's Corner Article
Patrick Lamb and Ed discuss Value Billing.
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Podcast
Are You in the Red Zone?
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Newsletter
How Do You Sue a Client? Very Carefully!
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Coach's Corner Article
Do You Want to be Cheap?
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Newsletter
Corporate America’s Challenge to ‘Big Law’
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Coach's Corner Article
Should You Have “Friends”?
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Newsletter
Got ‘The Billable-Hour Blues’?
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Coach's Corner Article
The Right Way to Use a Coach
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Derek Flower talks with Ed about ScanSnap’s S510, and their new Mobile S300
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Podcast
Lawyers are Not Immortal
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Coach's Corner Article
How Much Is in the Till?
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Money or Justice: Must we Choose?
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Coach's Corner Article
Exit the Discounting Trap
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After Hiring Associates, Help Grow Them!
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Coach's Corner Article
How Reasonable Are You?
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Are You Afraid of Ghosts?
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Coach's Corner Article
Reaping Rewards: Establishing Standards for Law Firm Bonus Programs
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Article
If You Leave, What Should You Do Next?
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Newsletter
Is Loyalty Cheap?
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Coach's Corner Article
Gretchen Neels and Ed Talk About the New “Civility” Movement in the Legal Profession
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Podcast
When Is It Time to Leave?
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It’s Better to Work with a Net
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Coach's Corner Article
Five Tech Tips for Road Warrior Productivity
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Ed Interviews Michael Korn, Financial Representative of National Financial Network, LLC
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Podcast
An Update on the Score
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Coach's Corner Article
The Four Levels of Communication
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Preparing for the ‘Second Season’
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The Bad Idea That Won’t Die
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How to Use Financial Software
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Coach's Corner Article
Interview with Alexis Martin Neely
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Podcast
Want to get paid faster?
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Top 10 Technology Recommendations for 2008
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Coach's Corner Article
Vote for LawBizBlog!
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Continuing to Bring “The Business of Law”ยฎ to MCLE
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Bill Confidently, Even in Tough Times
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Coach's Corner Article
Will You Avoid the ‘Credit Crunch’?
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Coach's Corner Article
Looking Ahead: How to Make Planning Part of Your Firm’s Culture
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Article
Collaboration Needed in This ‘2.0’ World
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Coach's Corner Article
Practice ‘Business’ to Practice Success
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Coach's Corner Article
Andy Birol, Business Growth Consultant and Author of “The Five Catalysts of Seven Figure Growth”
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Podcast
Build Your Business with Common Sense
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Coach's Corner Article
It’s 11:00 p.m.โ Do You Know What Your Outsourced Services Are Doing?
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Office Choices Speak Louder Than Words
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Coach's Corner Article
Money Main Issue for Would-Be Solos
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Coach's Corner Article
To Engage or Not To Engage โ That is the Question
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Article
Will You Avoid the “Credit Crunch”?
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Do You Know When It’s Time to Leave?
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Coach's Corner Article
LawBizยฎ Blog 2.0
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Age Policy May Force More Than Retirement
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Coach's Corner Article
Peter Brusso Interviews Ed Poll at California State Bar annual conference ’07 Part 2
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Podcast
Peter Brusso Interviews Ed Poll at California State Bar annual conference ’07 Part 1
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Podcast
Ever Attend a Trade Show?
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Trade Shows Offer One-Stop Marketing
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Coach's Corner Article
The “Perfect Bill” is One That Gets Paid!
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Collections Depend on Collection Policy
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Coach's Corner Article
From Satisfaction to Partnership: Taking Client Relationships to the Next Level
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Article
Blogging Policies and Best Practices for Lawyers and Law Firms
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Article
Dodging a High Cost Bulletโ For Now
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Firm Support Makes Rainmaking Easier
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Coach's Corner Article
Is Profit Professional?
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‘Exceeding’ Expectations Not Always the Best Plan
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Coach's Corner Article
Build Loyalty through Inclusion
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You Need to Do Well to Do Good
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Coach's Corner Article
Can You “Productize” Your Practice?
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Newsletter
Have Clear Rules of Non-Engagement
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Coach's Corner Article
Cyberinsurance Claims to Cover Data Security Risks
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Article
Now Don’t Get Defensive…
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Newsletter
Financial Fundamentals: The Budget: Your Firm’s ‘Secret Weapon’ for Better Collections
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Article
Why Non-Engagement Letters Are Helpful
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Coach's Corner Article
Jim Arden Talks About Internet Security
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Podcast
Quit Working and Start Leading!
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Master the ‘Art’ of Setting Fees
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Coach's Corner Article
New Practice Tips to Ensure Success
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Coach's Corner Article
Technology, Timing Speed Up Payments
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Coach's Corner Article
Type Ethically: You are What You Blog
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Coach's Corner Article
Ed Speaks with Debbie Epstein About Diversity in the Law Firm
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Podcast
Digging Out of the Discounting Hole
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Coach's Corner Article
Does a Lawyer Need an MBA?
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Coach's Corner Article
Thom Singer & Ed Discuss Practice Development Techniques and Increasing Your Connections by Networking
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Podcast
Hey Partner, Are You Sure You’re Tenured?
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Coach's Corner Article
Ed Interviews Scott Simmonds on How to Reduce Your Insurance Overhead and Increase Your Coverage
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Podcast
Demonstrate How You Provide Value
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Coach's Corner Article
Is Value Billing โReasonableโ?
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Article
Do You Know How You Rate?
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Coach's Corner Article
‘Productizing’ a Law Practice Adds Value
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Coach's Corner Article
The ‘Perfect Bill’ Prompts Pay, Goodwill
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Coach's Corner Article
Rick Borstein, Business Development Manager of the Legal Market for Adobe Systems, Inc.
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Podcast
Carol Fritz & Ed Discuss Offshore Legal Work
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Podcast
Hanging a Shingle on a ‘Shoestring’
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Coach's Corner Article
‘One Step at a Time’ Trumps Fear, Stress
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Coach's Corner Article
Virtual Viability: Telecommuting Works Only With Solid Client Service
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Article
The Graying of the Bar: Paper and the Older Lawyer – Both Are Here to Stay
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Article
Collecting fees begins at the beginning, according to recent CLE webcast
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Article
Job Standards a Key to Avoiding Conflict
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Coach's Corner Article
Mimi Donaldson, Co-author of Bless Your Stress: It Means You’re Still Alive!
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Podcast
Do You Enjoy the ‘Hamster Model’?
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Coach's Corner Article
Don’t Get Snowed-in by Everyday Disasters
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Coach's Corner Article
Leverage Just Part of ‘Big Business’
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Coach's Corner Article
Do They โFixโ Hourly Rates?
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Article
Your ‘Loss’ Might Actually Be a Gain
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Coach's Corner Article
What is One Person Worth?
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Article
How to Increase Your Fees: Measure Your Service in Terms of Value
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Article
Technology Trends to Make Life Easier
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Coach's Corner Article
Russ Ruffolo discusses the importance of recycling electronic equipment.
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Podcast
How to Use Bonuses for Rewarding Staff
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Article
Whom Do You Trust? Beware of Gray Areas Regarding Trust Accounts
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Article
Legal Myopia Hurts Value of ‘Goodwill’
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Coach's Corner Article
Network Security: An Oxymoron?
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Article
Your Office Space Says a Lot – Are You Listening?
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Article
Coaches Teach What Law Schools Donโt
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Article
Donna Payne discusses with Ed the new Microsoft Office 2007 for Lawyers.
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Podcast
Who’s Kidding Whom on Associate Salaries?
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Coach's Corner Article
Nothing Personal: Avoid the Baggage of Unclaimed Funds
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Coach's Corner Article
Nothing Personal: Leave the Loan Alone
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Coach's Corner Article
Make the Right Hire: Use an Employment Agency
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Coach's Corner Article
The Alternative to Planned Succession is Problems
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Coach's Corner Article
Ed interviewes Zafar Khan on RPost, a registered email system.
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Podcast
Why Work for Clients Who Don’t Pay?
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Coach's Corner Article
Is the Client Always Right?
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Coach's Corner Article
Ed Interviews Holly OโNeill on Marketing, Focus Groups, Branding and Brainstorming
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Podcast
Facing Up to the Potential for Embezzlement
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Coach's Corner Article
Would Apprenticeship Make for Better Lawyers?
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Coach's Corner Article
What Makes You Unique?
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Coach's Corner Article
What Do Clients Value?
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Coach's Corner Article
Ed interviews Don Garrison on Outsourced Legal Transcription
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Podcast
Winston Marsh “Make more money… HEAPS more money!” – Part 1
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Podcast
Winston Marsh “Make more money… HEAPS more money!” – Part 2
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Podcast
Reuniting a Firm Divided
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Coach's Corner Article
Are You Afraid to Succeed?
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Coach's Corner Article
Risky Business โ Some Thoughts on Legal Malpractice Insurance
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Article
Looking at Law Firms Through the Windows of an Airstream
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Coach's Corner Article
Donald Downey interviewed by Ed about collecting both WIP and AR
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Podcast
Success for 2007 – How to Assure It!
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Coach's Corner Article
Use of Credit Cards Redux
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Coach's Corner Article
Norm Thomas, Director of Business Development for Microsoft Professional Services Solutions
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Podcast
Are You Unique Enough to Deserve a Raise?
โ
Coach's Corner Article
Is Benchmarking the Master or the Servant?
โ
Coach's Corner Article
Keeping It Together
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Article
Don’t Let Flat-Fee Arrangements Leave You Flat Broke
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Coach's Corner Article
Will Lawyer Advertising Again Become ‘Illegal’?
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Coach's Corner Article
Rick Borstein, Business Development Manager for the Legal Community for Abobe Systems, Inc.
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Podcast
When it’s Necessary to Terminate a Lawyer
โ
Coach's Corner Article
Fee Collection, A Teleseminar given to the Canadian Bar Association by Ed Poll
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Podcast
What is a Law Practice Worth?
โ
Coach's Corner Article
Should Auld Lawyers Be Forgot, and Never Brought to Mind?
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Article
The Dynamics of Billing, Profits and Compensation
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Article
How to Get a Seat at the In-house Counsel’s Table
โ
Coach's Corner Article
Billie Blare, President and CEO of Leading and Learning, Inc., Succession Planning
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Podcast
Do You Commit Malpractice … When It Comes to Technology?
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Coach's Corner Article
When It’s Your Firm, the Buck Stops with You
โ
Coach's Corner Article
Should You Ever ‘Fire’ a Client?
โ
Coach's Corner Article
Take the Mystery โ and Fear โ Out of Budgeting Your Engagements
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Article
A Bigger Burden: Mandatory Malpractice Insurance Disclosure: Who Benefits?
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Article
Disaster Communication: Develop a Plan and Know How to Execute It
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Article
Ten Ways Blogs Boost a Law Firmโs Image
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Article
Can You Defend Your Fee Structure?
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Coach's Corner Article
‘Skill Enhancement’: The Difference Between Plumbers and Lawyers
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Coach's Corner Article
How Small Firms Can Finance Technology Purchases
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Coach's Corner Article
Is Everybody in Your Office on the Team?
โ
Coach's Corner Article
Smaller Firms Shouldn’t Sell Themselves Short
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Coach's Corner Article
A Matter of Trust in Using Accounts
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Coach's Corner Article
Law Firm Accounting 101: A Brief Lesson
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Coach's Corner Article
Jeff Carr, General Counsel of FMC Technologies, The DuPont Model
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Podcast
What is a ‘Fair’ Compensation System?
โ
Coach's Corner Article
Taking the Mystery Out of the Hiring Process
โ
Coach's Corner Article
Getting Paid: A New Look at Fee Collection
โ
Article
Business Competency: Teaching Lawyers “The Business of Law”
โ
Article
Jeff Carr, General Counsel of FMC Technologies Alternative Fee Billing
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Podcast
Cyberinsurance Could Save You from an IT Disaster
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Coach's Corner Article
Hugh Gottschalk, Alternative Fee Billing
โ
Podcast
Communications Gaps That Drive Clients Crazy
โ
Coach's Corner Article
Dr. Gayle Carson, President, Carson Research Center, Interpersonal Communication
โ
Podcast
Jim Michalowicz, Litigation Program Manager, Tyco Corp Tyco’s Approaches
โ
Podcast
How to Choose the Right Bank for Your Firm
โ
Coach's Corner Article
Mandatory Malpractice Insurance Disclosure: Taxation Without Representation!
โ
Coach's Corner Article
Christopher Marston, CEO, Exemplar Law Partners, LLC, Providing Value to Clients
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Podcast
So Associates Are Dissatisfied? Itโs Not Hard to See Why!
โ
Article
Taking an Administratorโs Job? Approach It Like a Client!
โ
Article
SBA Loan Guarantees — Are They Any Good for Lawyers?
โ
Coach's Corner Article
Personal Resources to Improve Your Business Competency
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Coach's Corner Article
In Praise of Paper as an Information Management Tool
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Coach's Corner Article
Must you ‘Snitch’ When it Involves Another Lawyer’s Misconduct?
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Coach's Corner Article
Trading Spaces: Tips for Moving Your Law Firm into New Office Space
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Article
Is the Handwriting on the Wall for the Virtual Lawyer?
โ
Coach's Corner Article
Are You a Millionaire? Then Why Not Make Some Changes!
โ
Coach's Corner Article
Rick Simses, Attorney, Alternative Fee Billing – Shared Risk
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Podcast
Thomas S. Brooks, Vice President At&T Law and Government Affairs, What Do Huge Multi-National Corporations Look for in Outside Counsel?
โ
Podcast
Steven A. Lauer, Director of Integrity Research, Integrity Interactive Corporation, How in-house counsel selects outside-counsel?
โ
Podcast
How To Sell or Close a Law Practice: Plan Carefully Before Taking Either Step
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Article
Starting a New Firm? Here Are Some Mistakes to Avoid
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Coach's Corner Article
Managing the Check Deposit Function at Your Bank
โ
Coach's Corner Article
Dr. Gayle Carson, President, Carson Research Center — Discusses Time Management
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Podcast
Into the Sunset โ How Will You Transition Your Practice?
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Article
Are You Privileged? Donโt Be Too Sure When It Comes to Ethics Problems
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Article
Paper โ Philosophical Pleasures, Practical Pointers
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Article
Too Old to Practice Law?
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Coach's Corner Article
Jeffrey K. Riffer, Attorney Microft OneNote™
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Podcast
How Do You Measure Financial Performance?
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Coach's Corner Article
How to Manage Your Cash Flow: Use Your Banker As Your Partner
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Article
How to Write an Engagement Letter: Get It In Writing to Avoid Problems Later
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Article
Kevin O’keefe, President, Lex Blog, Internet Marketing
โ
Podcast
Ron Baker, Verisage Institue Customer Value
โ
Podcast
Do Prospects Want Your Testimonials … Or You?
โ
Coach's Corner Article
Patrick Lamb, Attorney Alternative Fee Billing — Value Billing
โ
Podcast
Scott Rockfeld, Group Product Manager, Microsoft Discussion about Microsoft OneNote™
โ
Podcast
Getting Lawyers to Accept Planning
โ
Coach's Corner Article
Can We Talk? Don’t Wonder About Your Clients’ Concerns – Ask!
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Coach's Corner Article
How to Break Through The Time and Income Ceiling
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Article
Rules of Engagement: How Senior Law Firm Administrators Can Protect Their Jobs
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Article
Is Client Service Unprofessional? Too Often, We Seem to Say Yes!
โ
Article
Do Prospects Want Your Testimonials โ Or You?
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Article
Do You Want a Bank Loan? Then Make Sure You Qualify
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Coach's Corner Article
Is Law a Commodity? Only If We Let It Become One
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Coach's Corner Article
Is Malpractice Litigation Unavoidable? Only If You Ignore the Warnings
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Coach's Corner Article
What’s Your Price? Billing Alternatives Beyond the Hourly Rate
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Coach's Corner Article
Virtual Help: An Outsourcing Relationship With a Virtual Assistant Can Complete Your Team
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Article
Even The Lone Ranger Needed Tonto: Staff Is Essential in Any Solo Practice
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Article
Can you take it with you? Maybe, if you plan ahead carefully.
โ
Coach's Corner Article
Knowledge Management: Use It or Lose It
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Coach's Corner Article
Do you really need to return every client call promptly?
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Coach's Corner Article
Even Road Warriors Should Be Part of a Team
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Coach's Corner Article
Look Before You Blog โ Without a Marketing Strategy, Youโll Waste Your Time
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Article
Do You Know Who โ and Where โ Your Biggest Clients Are?
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Article
To Choose the Right Coach, Ask the Right Questions
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Coach's Corner Article
Pay Yourself: 8 steps to Collecting the Money You’re Owed
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Coach's Corner Article
The Budgeting Process: Collaborating with yhe Client is Key
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Coach's Corner Article
Credit Cards and Client Payment: Some Additional Thoughts
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Coach's Corner Article
New Opportunities for Buying and Selling Law Practices
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Article
Disaster Planning: Not If, But When
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Article
Selling A Practice: Allowing it is in Everyone’s Interest
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Coach's Corner Article
Ten Things Every Lawyer Must Do
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Coach's Corner Article
Moving On: Ways to Transition a Practice
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Coach's Corner Article
To Blog or Not to Blog: If You Can’t Do It Right, Have Someone Do It For You
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Coach's Corner Article
Use Caution in Transactions Involving Fixed Fees
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Coach's Corner Article
Those Who Can, Coach: The Power of Coaching Can Transform Your Life
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Article
Why Paper Still Matters: A Contrarian View of the Paperless Office
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Article
Tangled in The Web: The Need for Caution in Internet Use
โ
Coach's Corner Article
Buying, Selling Contract Lawyer Services Can Mean a Malpractice Suit in the Bargain
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Coach's Corner Article
Attitude Is Everything… and Empathy with the Client Is a Must
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Coach's Corner Article
Bigger Clients are Better… If You Keep Them in Proper Perspective
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Coach's Corner Article
Recovering from Disaster: How to Plan for Business Continuity
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Article
Taking Charge: Be Smart About Accepting Credit Card Payments
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Coach's Corner Article
Making the Right Choices on Telephone Use Issues
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Coach's Corner Article
Marketing Made Easy: A Common-Sense Marketing Plan
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Coach's Corner Article
To Charge or Not to Charge: Being Businesslike is Professional
โ
Coach's Corner Article
Which Files to Keep, and Which to Destroy?
โ
Article
Does Making Partner Mean Much Today?
โ
Article
Are Cab Drivers Smarter Than Lawyers?
โ
Article
To Transform Your Practice, Provide Value, not Time
โ
Article
Rules of Engagement: Get It in Writing to Get Paid
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Coach's Corner Article
For the Record: Consider the Requirements of File Security
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Coach's Corner Article
E-mails May Save Time, but They Can Increase Costs
โ
Coach's Corner Article
How to Avoid Clients Who Refuse to Pay
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Coach's Corner Article
How do you bill for a contract attorney? Very carefully…
โ
Coach's Corner Article
Owner or Employee? Financial Literacy and Openness Build a Partner’s Perspective
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Article
Enlarging the Scope of Disaster Plans
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Article
Disaster Planning After the Apocalypse
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Article
Plan Every Step Before You Walk Away: Closing A Law Practice The Right Way
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Article
Repairing from a Disaster is Different Than Preparing for a Disaster
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Coach's Corner Article
A Note of Virtual Caution
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Article
Technology Challenges in Law Firm Mergers – 10 Critical Factors for Growing Profits and Cementing Client Relationships
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Article
Coaches for Lawyers: Helping You Reach Your Goals
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Article
How to Build a Knowledge Management System: Manage Files Right, Right from the Start
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Article
Special Appearances Can Be a Special Outsourcing Worry
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Article
The Importance of Numbers: Why Attorneys Should Care About Accounting
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Article
Pulling in the Same Direction: The Open Book Revolution
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