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Posted In: Strategic Planning, Talent Strategy

How to Avoid Random Acts of Training in Small & Mid-Size Law Firms: Lessons From Big Law Professional Development

It’s old news: Clients don’t want to pay to train junior associates. With increasing pressure on realization rates and a heightened focus on

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Posted In: Strategic Planning

Why so Much Un-Executable Strategy?

Several weeks ago we suggested that there were at least three major categories of reasons why law firms so frequently fail to execute

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Posted In: Business Development

The Changing Legal Industry – Another Lesson from Steve Jobs

Markets change and markets evolve.  The legal industry is no exception.  Managing those changes can be painful, so here’s another great lesson from

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Posted In: Strategic Planning

The Mid-Sized Firm Conundrum

Many smaller and mid-sized firms are striving to find their place in a rapidly changing marketplace. As the market grows increasingly competitive and

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Posted In: Business Development

Law Firm Business Development: Establish Objectives for “Sales Conversations”

For many of you, your business clients have become personal acquaintances or maybe vice versa. In any case, summertime presents a fair amount

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Posted In: Strategic Planning

When to Take a Pass on Strategic Planning

We devote a fair amount of time and effort in this space to the virtues of having a strategy, constantly revisiting and revising

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Posted In: Culture & Diversity

Reflections…

As we here in the US celebrate our nation’s Independence Day, I want to step away from my recent series of posts focused

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Posted In: Business Development

Law Firm Client Retention and Growth: We Are All Minders!

The philosophy that there are Finders, Minders and Grinders is a bit out of date. I was reminded recently when speaking with a

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Posted In: Strategic Planning

Firing Clients: A Case for Letting Go

In Disney’s aquatic adventure, Finding Nemo, there is a moving scene where Nemo saves the lives of hundreds of fish, including his dad’s

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Posted In: Strategic Planning

Where Has The Common Sense Gone in the Industry?

Written by Mike Short, Marcie Shunk and Joe Altonji As we watch the hot topics within the legal industry, we are regularly reminded

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