It lists lawyers and law
firms by their practice areas and jurisdictions and can be searched by name and location.
Founded in 1990, Chambers ranks over 80,000 lawyers and law
firms by practice area in almost 200 jurisdictions.
The firm's ranking comes off the back of Chapman Tripp also outperforming all New Zealand law
firms by practice area in the latest Chambers and Legal 500 directories.
So, instead of having a bunch of «franchised» general practitioners in various geographic regions, Small Law Corp. is networking individual or small
firms by practice areas.
Not exact matches
By looking at the Long View results in aggregate, there is an opportunity to examine whether or not family
firms are adopting governance best
practices, and highlight
areas of strength and potential weakness.
Besides benchmarking, Intelligence lets
firm administrators see trends in e-billing, both geographically and
by practice area, and analyze common e-billing errors within the
firm.
Civil litigation, commercial transactions, insolvency and reorganization, real estate transactions, trusts and estates, oil and gas, environmental law, family law, employment law, criminal defence, municipal law, personal injury and appeals are among the
areas encompassed
by the
firm's
practice.
I've criticized this style of confusing marketing in the past, writing in one instance about a number of lawyer websites, all created
by the same marketing
firm, that created misleading impressions of a lawyer's
areas of
practice and geographic location.
In addition to specializing in
areas such as patent litigation and corporate - owned life insurance, the
firm also
practices in class actions, and other disputes potentially solved
by contingent fee commercial litigation.
To help us sort through these questions, we are joined
by two guests with expertise in this
area: Eric P. Robinson, staff attorney at the Media Law Resource Center, a nonprofit information clearinghouse that monitors and promotes First Amendment rights in libel, privacy and related fields; and Barry J. Reingold, head of the marketing and advertising
practice for the law
firm Perkins Coie.
Full - service
firms can use Twitter effectively
by harnessing the power of their
practice groups to dive deep into a subject, engage readers on the specific issues that concern them, and demonstrate a mastery of the subject
area at hand.
Let's see what they have been up to: Texas product liability
firm, Hissy Kientz LLP, added a new key
practice area to its main website, on lawsuits
by the cleanup workers of the BP oil spill.
Because they serve the
firm's urgent need for more case leads, as fast as possible,
by immediately dipping into a stream of potential clients already searching for a local attorney in their
practice area.
Now, what constitutes «chronically underperforming» varies
by location,
practice area and
firm.
Based out of Phoenix, Arizona, the
firm was founded
by partners Lawrence Koplow, with a core
area of
practice including Arizona DUI law.
-LSB-...] In the previously cited blogpost, Furlong further states that: «Full - service
firms can use Twitter effectively
by harnessing the power of their
practice groups to dive deep into a subject, engage readers on the specific issues that concern them, and demonstrate a mastery of the subject
area at hand.
Firms pay an annual fee to Lexology to collect submissions and break them down into different categories
by practice area and jurisdiction, and distribute articles through the daily Lexology newsfeeds.
A boutique
practice founded
by partner Lawrence Koplow, the
firm's core
area of experience includes Arizona DUI law.
You want your existing clients to continue to think of your
firm first when an opportunity for new business arises, and you encourage that
by regularly reminding clients that your attorneys are experts who continually monitor developments in their respective
practice areas.
These inaugural rankings, which are presented in tiers both nationally and
by metropolitan
area or
by state, showcase 8,782 different law
firms ranked in one or more of 81 major
practice areas.
Today, law
firms have to be sensitive and be prepared to take constructive action if a significant number of partners believe there are
areas of
practice the
firm ought to be in so that it may provide better service to its key clients, or there are
practice areas in which the
firm is so weak that it would be doing its clients a favor
by eliminating it and referring them to better specialists.
In many larger
firms selected individuals such as the managing partner, members of the management committee, department heads and the administrator may receive a monthly report of the time performance of all timekeepers, individually and
by practice area.
With a robust search engine, one can search the lists of peer recommended lawyers
by individual,
firm,
practice area and location.
The
firm offers legal services in a wide variety of
practice areas, focusing in particular on legal services needed
by individuals and business entities.
The more financially and professionally successful mid-sized law
firms are proficient in performing virtually all of the usual legal services in most of the substantive
practice areas required
by their key clients, however, they do not have the lawyer complement required to be expert in all
practice areas, nor will the sophisticated buyers of legal services believe that mid-sized law
firms are able to provide the same breadth and depth of high quality legal expertise as large general
practice firms several times their size.
As a result of the diversified
practice areas of the attorney professionals of this leading boutique law
firm, James, Potts & Wulfers offers in one location many, if not all, of the legal services needed and desired
by individual and business clients.
An equally compelling kind of competition is ability of a
firm's to attract and retain the more profitable and productive attorneys, especially those who control a considerable amount of profitable client business or those who
practice in substantive
practice areas that are in high demand
by profitable law
firm clients.
An objective of most marketing plans is to increase the number of quality clients served
by the
firm in targeted industries and
practice areas.
A blue - ribbon panel then evaluates candidates
by practice area and size of
firm where they can be compared to each other.
-- authored
by Circuit Judge Hurwitz [majority decision] and concurring opinion
by Circuit Judge Reinhardt; discussed in our Oct. 10, 2015 post: District court in Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act case which substantially reduced fee request was reversed based upon its reliance on inapt
practice area hourly rates, upon its discounts for plaintiff's attorneys not delegating tasks to associates given that only small
firms prosecuted these type of cases, and upon its use of stale prior fee awards involving fee claimant's attorneys.
NPS is unique because it offers standardized measurement and reporting on client satisfaction and service quality that can be applied across the legal industry as a whole, at the
firm - level, within specific
practice areas, even
by partner or associate.
The
firm culture promotes a deep understanding of the
practice area by continually involving the lawyers, accountant, paralegals and other professional staff in all aspects of the
practice.
The length of time that a
firm remains in one of the above governance cycles depends, to a greater or lesser degree, upon: the
firm's economics; its culture; the traditional method of admitting partners - through the
firm's career development program, lateral hires or combination; the method of allocating profits to the partners and how the system is administered; the personal characteristics, the rainmaking and professional skills of partners whose
practice areas are profitable over an extended period of time; and how certain of the more influential partners are perceived
by other influential partners.
Kalajdzic concludes that «[w] hatever economies of scale can be generated
by large consumer
firms as a result of alternative sources of capital, new technology, operational design and branding, the evidence to date shows that they are far more likely to occur in
areas of
practice that [sic] can be easily commoditized.»
Rather,
firms are broken up into tiers, and rankings are done
by practice area, with no «overall» category.
It also means, at least for us, making sure that specialized tools are discoverable
by anyone via our diversely grown intranet
practice area pages and broadcasting regularly about KM tools through the
firms daily email news.
Do regular reporting on the
firm's stats: client in - take, revenue
by practice area or matter type, origination (where the client came from), etc..
As noted above, the system will allow
firms to track fees
by practice areas.
Legal Week's annual UK top 50 ranking found that, of the 35
firms providing a breakdown of turnover
by practice area, litigation brought in the largest share of total revenue in 2014 - 15, at 27.9 %.
It is much easier to think about creating a profile of the ideal client
by considering clients you have worked with in the past — even if those former clients were when you were in a different
firm or
practice area than you are currently working in.
Another
area where
firms need to improve is with fee arrangements and billing
practices, with satisfaction on both falling
by 0.1 to 3.8 out of 5.
And technologically - savvy
firms can market their
practice areas and legal - writing acumen
by publishing the results of these projects on
firm websites.
The awards, jointly hosted
by Legal Week and The American Lawyer, saw
firms from continental Europe, the UK and the US gather at Fishmonger's Hall for a gala dinner to celebrate excellence in handling transatlantic matters across key
practice groups, as well as
areas such as innovation and pro bono.
I then asked the assembled partners to identify,
by virtue of electronic voting machines (secret vote), the relevant importance to their
firm of being able to establish new
areas of
practice in advance of competitors.
UK
firm adds new
practice area to its Paris office, which is currently being run out of London
by managing partner Sharon White
To be sure, our lawyers have particular
areas of substantive expertise, but this
firm is not arranged
by formal
practice group.
Tracking a law
firm's income
by practice area or case type allows the
firm to create new sets of valuable business intelligence that will allow them to understand:
While working with larger law
firms, it has been especially beneficial to cross-tabulate and analyze the results of interviews / questionnaires
by (1) ages of the partners, (2) whether the partners are lateral hires or have progressed through the
firm's career development program, (3) primary
practice area (s), (4) office location, etc..
Consider how valuable then, from a search perspective, registering «criminal.attorney», «divorce.lawyer» or «patent.attorney» would be
by a lawyer or law
firm who wishes to highlight these
areas of
practice in which they have expertise.
The drop in profits came despite a 2.3 % increase in turnover - taking revenues to # 67.5 m — with the
firm's largest
practice area, real estate, badly affected
by the downturn.