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How to Maximize the Effectiveness of Breakout Sessions
Holding breakout sessions at retreats and workshops allows the management of law firms to maximize the input it receives from associates and partners on a range of topics. In the most recent issue of...
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Edge International’s Bithika Anand sponsors India’s first-ever conference for...
I am delighted to announce that Edge International’s Bithika Anand, founder of India’s Legal League Consulting LLC, will host the first-ever management event for India’s legal industry to include both...
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Time Sheets: Law Firm Compliance Policies
Many law firms are rethinking the billable hour as the primary basis for assessing client fees, but for now the question of how to encourage lawyers to complete and submit their time sheets continues...
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Management Meets Engagement: Putting Your Strategies to Work
Doug Sundheim recently published an article in The Harvard Business Review on a subject of relevance to anyone involved in organizational management – whether in the field of law or any other...
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How “Niche” Can You Get?
In recent years, boutique and even mid-sized firms have begun to offer increasingly specialized ranges of legal services. One notable example in this regard was recently the subject of an article in...
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Want to Influence Others? Tell Them a Story
_________________________ “Recent research from Carnegie-Mellon University indicates that our unconscious minds actually make better decisions when left alone to deal with complex issues.” – Nick...
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E Is for Effort
In a May 2014 article for Inc. (Magazine), Jason Fried warns would-be employees that simply submitting a well constructed resume detailing impressive credentials is not the best way to get a job with...
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“Competitive Intelligence” and the Practice of Law
The Legal Intelligencer has launched a series of articles that focus on “competitive intelligence” in the context of legal practice. The term “competitive intelligence” refers to the ways in which one...
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Can You Be Too Nice?
To most of us, courtesy and consideration are almost second nature. However, Michael Fertik — founder of reputation.com — says that when we assume a leadership capacity, being “too nice” can actually...
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Icebergs and Sea Monsters in Treacherous Legal Seas
I was privileged to have been asked by the American Bar Association to write an article about the future of the legal profession for “The Annual Big Ideas Issue” of Law Practice Magazine (July/August...
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Why Google Values Predictability
_________________________ A recent post on the Human Capital League website talks about “The Boring Trait that Google Looks for in its Leaders.” Contrary to what most of us might think, the article...
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Listen up!
__________ Many of the thousands of lawyers we have trained in client relations skills, or coached to enhance their book of business, have told us that listening is the most important skill they can...
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Alternative Fees For Litigators: Timely and Practical Advice
I am delighted to recommend to you a new book by my esteemed colleague and friend, Patrick J. Lamb. Alternative Fees for Litigators and their Clients is published by the Law Practice Division of the...
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The Voice of Experience: Ten Tips for Managing Partners
In 2013, Gregory Jordan left his position as managing partner at the international law firm Reed Smith to work as general counsel at PNC Financial. At a recent Law Firm Leaders Forum hosted by Thomson...
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Does your Firm Need a Chief Experience Officer (CXO)?
Awareness among businesses of the importance of customer experience has never been greater. By considering how companies assess this experience and work to improve it – such as the introduction of the...
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Brainwriting Clobbers Brainstorming
In most law firms, brainstorming processes are dominated by power partners or simply those with force of personality. When this happens, the scope of the process is narrowed and many participants may...
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Client Relationships, Firm Strategy, and Lawyers and Retirement: New Issue of...
The April, 2015 issue of Edge International Communique is now available online. Check out feature articles by three of my Edge International colleagues: – David Cruickshank talks about improving client...
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How Managing Partners Can Help Administrators Achieve Firm Objectives
I was pleased to have been invited to contribute an article to the Jan/Feb 2015 edition of Administrator’s Advantage, the newsletter of the Greater Chicago Chapter of the Association of Legal...
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2015 Edge International Global Partner Compensation System Survey
Edge International is pleased to announce the release of its 2015 Global Partner Compensation System Survey, authored by Edge International partners Ed Wesemann and Nick Jarrett-Kerr. This is the...
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July, 2015 Edition of Edge International Communiqué Now Available
It is my pleasure to draw the attention of readers of this blog to the most recent issue of Edge International Communique (EIC). In addition to an item I contributed on how to move forward to achieve...
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