Additionally, the association has long enjoyed a collaborative relationship with the Canadian Bar Association's B.C. Branch on collecting various
pieces of law firm management information.
Every piece of your law firm marketing should be focused on the client's needs.
Not exact matches
At a time when
law firms are scrambling to hang on to every
piece of paid business that they can, Palo Alto, Calif. - based Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is giving away services for free.
Joining my cohost J. Craig Williams and me for this discussion are Anthony J. Sebok, professor at Brooklyn
Law School and author
of a recent article exploring Virginia Tech's liability, and Robert B. Smith, partner with the Boston
firm Nelson, Kinder, Mosseau & Saturley and author
of a recent opinion
piece in The Chronicle
of Higher Education about student suicide and colleges» liability.
A follow - up
piece in today's WSJ notes that some
of the investment funds that Pang oversees are unaudited, «and the trustee assigned to keep track
of investors» assets is a two - partner
law office that includes one partner with ties to Mr. Pang and his
firm.»
Think
of your
law firm's website as a standard 8.5 x11
piece of copy paper.
In a
Law.com commentary
piece, «Let Lawyers Be Lawyers,» Karen Asner
of White & Case argues that given the complex administrative tasks involved in running a large
law firm today,
firms are better off delegating administrative tasks to professional administrators, thus freeing lawyers up to be lawyers.
Once a legal department or
law firm has decided to invest in a significant
piece of legal technology, determining the ROI and applied benefits can be daunting.
On a recent episode
of LXBN TV, Brett Burney
of Macs in
Law shared a couple of his top apps for lawyers using iPads, and talked about how IT departments are adapting to this new piece of hardware that's popping up in law firms with increasing frequen
Law shared a couple
of his top apps for lawyers using iPads, and talked about how IT departments are adapting to this new
piece of hardware that's popping up in
law firms with increasing frequen
law firms with increasing frequency.
I will add my $ 0.02 to one
piece of your analogy between
law firms and media that got skipped over: content creation.
I'm very confident in my position that the
law firm website continues to be the foundation
piece for executing business development online — and that includes relationship, referral, and word -
of - mouth marketing.
Whatever the term, the headline on the home page your
law firm's website is the most important
piece of content you have to get a potential client engaged in what you have to say.
This is not a
piece of software that large
firms can ultimately pay a consultant to help them adopt, but a fundamental restructuring
of how top - tier transactional
law operates.
The
piece appearing in the magazine specifically focused on the
law firm's client focused approach to every client and the
law firm's philosophy
of helping clients transition from a very difficult time in their lives to a better less stressful life.
Companies today are so conscious
of their
law firms» costs that they give them very small
pieces of information, and ask them to work on very discreet tasks.
The best
piece of advice I can give to anyone considering applying for a training contract at any
law firm is not to feel intimidated or scared.
With that in mind, I have undertaken a further, small,
piece of research looking at how various lateral hiring policies have affected
law firm financial variables over time, and the results are quite intriguing.
The Báez
Law Firm has dealt with a lot
of auto accidents, and we know how these
pieces fit together and when drivers are shoved through the process.
If you include all the stakeholders (partners, paralegals, assistants), it will become part
of your
law firm's culture, and a
piece of empowerment for everyone who works there.
The model will no doubt need polishing, but the diamond may come to better represent the structure
of law firm staffing than the pyramid, suggests Gina Passarella, a reporter for The Legal Intelligencer in Philadelphia, in her piece, Diamonds May Be a Law Firm's Best Friend in Economic Downtu
law firm staffing than the pyramid, suggests Gina Passarella, a reporter for The Legal Intelligencer in Philadelphia, in her piece, Diamonds May Be a Law Firm's Best Friend in Economic Downt
firm staffing than the pyramid, suggests Gina Passarella, a reporter for The Legal Intelligencer in Philadelphia, in her
piece, Diamonds May Be a
Law Firm's Best Friend in Economic Downtu
Law Firm's Best Friend in Economic Downt
Firm's Best Friend in Economic Downturn.
In fact, it's one
of the most common
pieces of advice when starting a
law firm.
Thanks to a
piece in Slate on what to do about e-coli in the food supply, I wound up finding the Seattle
law firm of Marler Clark LLP, which specializes in food poisoning cases — indeed the title on their home page declares it and the first paragraph
of text claims that
In her Washington Post
piece yesterday, No Justice In These Pay Scales, Dahlia Lithwick questions the signing bonuses
of at least $ 200,000 that elite
law firms will pay this year to recruit Supreme Court
law clerks.
noted up in a very good Indian IP newsletter — which ranks as the best
piece of Indian
law firm marketing material I've ever seen.
This morning's Intapp
Law Firm Risk Management Blog features a piece I recently published in Managing Partner Magazine in London entitled: «Managing Screens,» which explores the tension between tightly controlling access to sensitive client (and firm) information and fostering internal sharing, which I characterize as: «the potential of exploiting collective professional knowledge.&ra
Firm Risk Management Blog features a
piece I recently published in Managing Partner Magazine in London entitled: «Managing Screens,» which explores the tension between tightly controlling access to sensitive client (and
firm) information and fostering internal sharing, which I characterize as: «the potential of exploiting collective professional knowledge.&ra
firm) information and fostering internal sharing, which I characterize as: «the potential
of exploiting collective professional knowledge.»
We've reported on several
law firms that have set up shop in the virtual world
of Second Life, but now, many corporate counsel are venturing into these online communities as well, as discussed in this
piece, «Why Should Corporate Counsel Become Familiar With Virtual Environments?»
It matches the writing needs
of lawyers and
law firms with experienced legal journalists to ghostwrite or polish articles, biographies, practice area descriptions, case studies or any business - development
piece.
While those developments may make interesting headlines, at the end
of the day, corporations still believe «that there is great advantage to breadth and depth [
of large
law firms], that's what their purchasing patterns indicate,» says Peter Zeughauser, an expert quoted in the Portfolio
piece.
An approach that makes a
law firm the central co-ordinator
of a number
of quality players to deliver client service — a true one - stop shop for GCs rather than just one puzzle
piece?
Last week, Dale Tincher, president
of the Web development company Consultwebs, published a thoughtful
piece,
Law Firm Blogs — Hip or Hype?
The report also reveals that big
law continues to command a hefty
piece of the M&A pie with 72 %
of all M&A matters in 2014 and 2015, handled by a
firm with more than 500 attorneys.
Law firm content has the ability to help claimants take action through the production
of awareness
pieces.
Of course there's one piece of information that hasn't yet been discussed: Which attorney (or law firm) drafted Jackson's wil
Of course there's one
piece of information that hasn't yet been discussed: Which attorney (or law firm) drafted Jackson's wil
of information that hasn't yet been discussed: Which attorney (or
law firm) drafted Jackson's will?
Seeger says training for practice group leaders is another critical
piece of the puzzle missing at many
law firms.
At the end
of it, it had evolved into a traditional
law firm that offers the educational
piece — the clinics, the workshops — to partner employers to offer to their employees and agencies.
Henderson, who studies
law firms as business organizations, has been featured in a number of recent news articles about the impact of the recession on the legal profession, including pieces in The National Law Journal, Crain's Chicago Business and The New York Tim
law firms as business organizations, has been featured in a number
of recent news articles about the impact
of the recession on the legal profession, including
pieces in The National
Law Journal, Crain's Chicago Business and The New York Tim
Law Journal, Crain's Chicago Business and The New York Times.
This correlation might lead some to assume that
law firms with a higher percentage
of non-equity partners will have larger PPP's, because there are fewer partners taking a
piece of the profit pie.
Say what you will on this issue, but at least when it comes to ghostwritten
pieces for lawyers and
law firms, they haven't been accused
of contributing to «lasting injury and even deaths.»
As technology continues to improve and virtual practice become more accepted by
law firms and their clients, the legal profession will see
firms adopting bits and
pieces of virtual practice on an ever - increasing basis.
One
of the most important
pieces of advice that I give to my new BLOG clients is to choose a list
of about 10 keyword phrases that the
law firm would like to be found under.
The release
of this year's American Lawyer 100 survey
of law firm finances has prompted the usual flurry
of analysis and commentary, including this
piece from the New York Times.
The latest issue
of the New York
Law Journal has an interesting piece on how the law of copyright applies to contracts and other documents drafted within a law fi
Law Journal has an interesting
piece on how the
law of copyright applies to contracts and other documents drafted within a law fi
law of copyright applies to contracts and other documents drafted within a
law fi
law firm.
The Financial Times
piece and a similar report in The Times
of London (
Law Firms Riding All - time High - But is the Boom About to End?)
In an article published in the ABA Journal entitled
Law Firm Consultant Predicts «Absolutely» More Layoffs and as Many as Five BigLaw Dissolutions the author
of the
piece writes....
The purpose
of this
piece is to give actionable advice to
law firms who know there is a problem.
So if it's a smaller matter, there's a group
of law firms where I can pick up the phone and negotiate a specific
piece of work.
The author
of the long - standing legal blog Bag and Baggage begins her
piece in the Pleistocene Era — 1989 to be exact — when as a graduating
law student courted by four top
law firms, she chose the one that went on record as giving greater weight to the «life» side
of the work - life balance scale.
Noting that «a large
firm can be a very small place when it comes to conflicts,» Carolyn Elefant expands on a
piece in the Aug. 22 edition
of the Connecticut
Law Tribune.
While both
pieces offer worthwhile advice on ways to improve young lawyers» career satisfaction, as we head into a recession (some, like Larry Bodine believe that we're in one already), I wonder whether we'll see much
of these kinder, gentler
law firm policies designed to keep associates around.
Most
law firms have a history
of using Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) to distribute their brochures, papers and longer written
pieces.