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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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