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Least Effective Ways to Bring New Business into Your Law Firm

I recently came across WebMD’s list of the 9 least effective exercises. If you are a fitness nut like me (when we meet

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Posted In: Strategic Planning, Talent Strategy

The Law Firm of the Future: Demographic Changes Ahead

While updating my research on trends in the Canadian legal market I recently came across an interesting article that advanced my thinking about

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Law Firm Business Development: Client Teams & Strategic Account Management (SAM)

During my days at Ernst & Young, I was a member of the leadership team that rolled-out the firm’s Client Team program. To

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Posted In: Assessments, Business Development, Strategic Planning

Trendspotting Risks and Rewards: Taking the Leap into Innovation

Just a month after touting Amazon’s diaper launch in the first of my Trendspotting blog series, Amazon pulled their new line from the

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Posted In: Business Development

Want to Land the Next Big Client at Your Firm? Understand Buyer Roles

Business development is most effective one-on-one and focused on building key relationships but big clients usually present themselves in the form of complex

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Posted In: Talent Strategy

Finding Your Next “A” Team: What Attracts NextGen Lawyers to Your Firm?

As law firms continue to face maturing partnerships and impending baby-boomer retirements, many leaders are left wondering how best to position their firms

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Posted In: Assessments, Strategic Planning

Trendspotting Part II: Macro-Trends and Changing Client Preferences

One month into another new year, partners are turning their attention (perhaps belatedly) to their plans for 2015. Energy is at an all-time

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The Secret Weapon When Trying to Land a Large Institutional Legal Services Client: Enlist, Train and Deploy a Champion

“Identify the decision maker” is a common mantra for people pursuing work from institutional prospects. However, few organizations and buying processes are simple

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Posted In: Talent Strategy

Are You Part of the 8 Percent? 4 Questions for Law Firm Leaders

For those of you who religiously follow the LawVision INSIGHTS blog posts – and I know you do – in accordance with my

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Legal Business Development: A Road Map for Growing the Top Line

As we’ve all heard before, law firms can improve the bottom line in two ways; 1) by cutting costs, and 2) by increasing

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