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Posted In: Business Development, LawVision News

Is It Time for Marketing and Business Development Courses in Law School?

Why don’t more law schools offer courses that teach the basics of branding, marketing and business development? This would have been unheard of

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Posted In: Organizational Structure, Talent Strategy

Lateral Recruiting:  Improve Your Success Rate by Asking the Right Questions

When it comes to lateral recruiting, it goes without saying that most firms aspire to improve their success rate.  In the Above The

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Posted In: Business Development

Successful Business Development Begins with this One Thing

The client was prepping me about his group before I started the workshop.  I learned about the young guns who would someday be

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Posted In: Culture & Diversity

Law Firm Leadership: Maxwell’s 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader

I typed “leadership books” into the search engine on Amazon’s website.  What would you guess?  1,000?  20,000?  50,000 different books on leadership?   The

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Posted In: Leadership Support & Development

Executive Presence – Do you have what it takes to be a firm leader?

I read an article many years ago that most CEOs, when asked to “please take a seat” by the receptionist, will elect to

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Posted In: Business Development

The 5 key components to a successful client team program (that are often overlooked)

We often hear “it didn’t work for us” or “we just can’t seem to get our client team program going.”  Have you tried

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Posted In: Business Development

The Many Paths to Business Development Success

I get concerned when senior rainmakers give business development presentations to their firm’s associates.  Why?  Because the message is often misconstrued by the

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Posted In: Business Development

Using Your Smart Phone for Smart Business Development

One of my 2015 New Year’s resolutions is to utilize technology to improve my business (the other is to lose weight).  Since there

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Posted In: Business Development

My Top Ten Client Questions

A general counsel once said to me “I’m amazed how many of the firms I work with fail to ask me about my

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Posted In: Business Development

Five ways to acknowledge (and thank) your best clients this holiday season

It’s the little things that matter most.  As we begin to close out 2014, take a moment to consider how far a little

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