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Law Firm Business Development: Lose a Client; Gain Some Perspective – The 5+ Ws

You lose an opportunity for work after spending hours on an RFP or just hours and months on the sales process. Or you

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Finding Career Satisfaction in Today’s Law Firms

A recent speech given by poet (yes, poet) David Whyte really emphasized the importance of being happy with yourself and in one’s career.

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The Top Ten Law Firm Business Development Don’ts

At a recent retreat I had a number of partners ask me “What are the top “Don’ts” of business development? While I prefer

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The Four Ws of Business Development for Those Who Want to Take it to the Next Level

After two recent weeks of meetings with partners who are successful at business development and want to reach the next level of revenue

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Business Development: Sifting for Gold to Grow Revenue

Prospectors know that to find gold, they have to sift through a lot of rocks, twigs and other miscellaneous things found in the

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Key Client Planning: Listening to the Voice of the Client

I often ponder the fact that we can’t change lawyers’ minds about fees and the fact that fees are not the primary criterion

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Law Firm Growth: Create Remarkable Bosses for the New Year and Revenue Will Follow

Reading an article about the Qualities of Remarkable Bosses by Jeff Haden made me think about the fact that law firms have a

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Business Development for Lawyers: A Minute A Day Gets Results!

What’s the most often-heard reason for not doing more to increase selling efforts? Lack of time. I won’t argue with this except to

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Law Firm Sales and Lessons from the Spider

Inspired by the fun holiday of Halloween this month, I thought I’d write about my recent experience with a spider’s web. In between

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When Law Firm Selling is Like Working Out

As I was power walking with my dog this morning I kept thinking that it’s easy to find reasons not to exercise. Too

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