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10 mistakes law firms make in managing their client relationships…
The importance of enhanced client focus continues to ratchet up. With good reason. In the “battle for market share” your current clients are both more valuable and vulnerable than before..
read more +“Courage,” or Why Profits Really Do Matter More Than Anything
Rarely, if ever, do I link to The Wall Street Journal, on the premise that the overwhelming majority of you have already seen it, so why point to what's been in front of your face? But rules are made to be broken, so this morning I give you two WSJ links....
Survey Reminder
With only ten days left to take the "Adam Smith, Esq." survey, we have over 250 responses. This is very gratifying and rewarding "viewer participation," and I encourage any of you who haven't checked it out to do so. Many thanks again...
“Savvy Blawgers” Query #3: Future Legal Industry Structure
"Savvy Blawger" Query #3 is now out for the assembled to mull over with, of course, their cogent responses reported back to you a few weeks hence. The question for this go-round is: "What will the industry structure of the (US-based) legal profession...
Professional Development Is Not Just for Junior Associates
Are lawyers suffering "arrested development," as the cheeky title of a dead-serious article has it at Legal Week? Professional development is one of the pantheon of gods whose worship is most often honored in the breach, or else by procrustean...
Diversity Quotas & Signal-to-Noise Ratios
The New York Law Journal is reporting that, under the auspices of the New York County Lawyers Association, "more than 60" law firms have agreed to a written pact to report to their corporate clients the makeup of legal teams by "race, gender, ethnicity,...