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Why Your Strongest Contacts Are Not Always Your Best Contacts—and What to Do About It

In early March 1955, a young African-American woman refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama, city

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Law Firm Business Development: Are You Missing Opportunities To Connect?

Along with the warmer weather comes increased outdoor social activity. Accordingly, there are plenty of informal opportunities for relationship development—which we all know

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Nailing the Fundamentals: The Value of Rehearsing

While in NY recently, I found myself outside Carnegie Hall. Whenever I find myself there, I often think of the old joke attributed

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Law Firm Business Development: Advice from a Taxi Driver? Read On!

I recently arrived in DC and grabbed a cab to the law firm where I had a meeting. En route, the cab driver

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Lack of Business Development Support May Be Just What You Need

I recently attended the Legal Sales and Service Organization’s Raindance Conference in Chicago, which, by the way, I highly recommend. The keynote speaker,

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Law Firm Business Development:  Don’t make this common mistake when following up with a prospective client

I chuckled as I read Jon Manley’s article, “Stop Touching Base with Your Prospects.” It might seem counterintuitive, but a closer look reveals a

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Law Firm Business Development: Nailing the Fundamentals

It is one of the simplest yet often hardest questions to answer— “What do you do?” Having a crisp answer can often be

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Law Firm Selling – Presenting Bios with Pizzaz!

I’m going to start this post off by saying lawyers test the absolute highest of all professionals in skepticism. So it’s no wonder

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Build Your Network Like a Roman: Now…Before You Need It

During the early days of the Roman Empire, the Romans lost a war. They lost because they couldn’t support and resupply their armies

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Law Firm Selling: It’s Important to Separate When You Are Selling and When You Are Lawyering

When you are pitching business and you hear “you gave the best presentation….but, we hired the other firm,” what happened? You likely educated

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