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Cross-serving vs. Cross-selling; yes, there’s a difference
The following column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq., LLC–Bruce Firms are increasingly realizing the value of expanding relationships with their existing clients – be it involving more partners, additional practice areas, offices or other... read more +How’s Your Business Continuity Plan?
You do have one, right? In just the past few days, we've heard a few firms volunteer that (a) clients are inquiring about their business continuity plans; (b) they're dusting their plan off; (c.i.) they're making sure they have one (or [c.ii.] creating it on the fly);...
Who’s in Charge Here?
Legal Business's retrospective on the 2010s ("The Vision Thing") opens thus: The last decade emerged with the shockwaves of the banking crisis still making themselves felt on the profession. Having just made a series of job cuts in major markets the like of which had...
Antonio Leal Holguin, Director of Latin America/Adam Smith, Esq.
The following column was written by Antonio Leal Holguin, Director of Latin America for Adam Smith, Esq. Back in the early 2010s I was practicing at a family-owned law firm in Bogota, Colombia. As I became increasingly interested in law firm management, I began...
Federalist #65
Friday, March 7, 1788 A. Hamilton To the People of the State of New York: [...] A well-constituted court for the trial of impeachments is an object not more to be desired than difficult to be obtained in a government wholly elective. The subjects of its jurisdiction...
2020: The Year of Law Land Segmentation
This article is co-authored by Bruce MacEwen, President, Janet Stanton, Partner and Antonio Leal Holguin, Director – Adam Smith, Esq. Lots of folks have their "Year of...." custom, often retrospectively, but here at Adam Smith, Esq., we're more about "what's next?" ...