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What These Successful Entrepreneurs See As The Key Factors Used To Create a Positive Company – Or Law Firm – Culture and Prioritizing Employee Sastisfaction?

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Chris Harrison* Company culture goes far beyond buzzwords and free snacks. It is the entire atmosphere of the office, how people treat one another, and an orientation towards productivity and positivity.   Creating a strong company culture is way easier said than done, and most companies and professional firms make half-baked attempts at this cause […]

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Covid Doubts Over Firms Reopening Has Seen A New Trend in Law Management

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The confusion and missed deadlines for the reopening of law firms has created continuing uncertainty for lawyers everywhere. The default setting for many law firms remains as working from home and telecommuting, but as the pandemic continues many firms remain hesitant about widespread office re-openings. In the United States, various firms have made various promises

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A Starting Your Own Law Firm Checklist – The 7 Key Steps To Avoid Making Costly Mistakes

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Dane Panes* Starting your own law firm is a major step towards success as a passionate lawyer. However, the process of building a law firm from the ground up can be daunting – not to mention, challenging. Once you open your law firm, you won’t just be a lawyer. You will also become a business

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Why Law Firm Profitability Matters More Than Ever

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Profitability management of law firms combined with market price signaling are ultimately the critical tools Joseph Altonji* A few weeks ago, I addressed “What’s Next for the Legal World?” in a post focused on critical challenges facing law firms.   In it, I argued that “profitability management as a survival skill” is now a feature of the industry,

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5 Key Things Law Firms Need to Consider Before Undertaking a Law Firm Merger

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Some law firms seem to be full-time participants in law firm merger activity. As new markets are entered and competitors gobbled up, the voracious law firms bring to their transactions a wealth of experience their counterparts often lack. If your law firm is thinking about merger for the first time, will a lack of experience

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Should ‘Dear Sir’ Be Relegated To The ‘Don’t Use – Ever’ Bin?

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Time for lawyers to dump the ‘Dear Sir/s’ greeting? A recent article in LawyersWeekly from Jerome Doraisamy put the obvious to the legal audience, noting that ‘women are not a niche cohort’. Is it time for lawyers to take that message to heart? He notes that there is a wildfire response to comments about the

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Minters’ Dead CEO Walking In Wake Of the Law Firm’s Email Crisis

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How the CEO of Australia’s largest law firm put paid to her CEO position? MinterEllison is Australia’s largest law firm and CEO Annett Kimmitt has become embroiled in a controversy about ethics and the modern workplace that has seen her labelled a ‘dead CEO walking’. The scandal involves an email Kimmitt sent to the firm’s

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What Happens When Partners Must Compulsorily Retire? UK Court Decision Examines The Issue

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Fox & Partners – The Court of Appeal’s judgment in Joseph v Deloitte NSE LLP [2020] EWCA Civ 1457 is a lesson in the importance of properly construing and strictly following the terms of a partnership agreement. The implications for partners, but also firms in relation to their decision-making processes, particularly in light of the pandemic, are

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Is This a Law Firm Management Trend That Is Likely To Catch-On?

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For many years, several leading business advisors have suggested that law firms need to broaden their management horizons by employing law firm CEOs who are not themselves lawyers. Many lawyers either dislike or show a lack of ability to managing law firms and yet there are frequently management professionals readily available to take charge and

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The Legal Lady With A Law Firm Diversity Initiative Based On Holding Law Firm Fees Back

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A recent interview by Bloomberg Law with HP Inc. Chief Legal Officer Kim Rivera, one of the first corporates to demand diversity from outside counsel, indicated that a demand for diversity from law firms would lead to a positive response from firms. HP had made a promise to withhold fees for outside law firms that

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