7 Best Practices When A Lateral Joins Your Law Firm

7 years ago

It’s the time of year when we often are advising laterals and their firms on how to maximize the value…

5 Things To Do To Maximize the Value of Every Referral You Make

8 years ago

What you do after you refer a matter to another lawyer or professional is as important as having made the…

NO DATABASE? You’re killing your rainmakers and driving up marketing costs

8 years ago

In the three decades we have been marketing law firms, so much has changed.  But the fundamental and most common…

Build, Maintain and Evaluate Your Business Contact Network

8 years ago

  By Amber Vincent "In today's complex society of comparably skilled, interdependent people, it is more true than ever that…

REPORT: Associate billing rates increase more than partner rates. It also reveals how cross-selling lets firms charge a premium.

8 years ago

Analysis of a new report on $19.6 billion of approved legal department invoices reveals to maximize firm profits partners should…

Consider How Scott’s Uses Baseball When Your Firm Sponsors or Donates

8 years ago

The business case for sponsorships and charitable donations in an employer's local community is well documented:  it increases brand awareness…

3 Tenets of a Good Law Firm Coaching Program

8 years ago

Originally, coaches were hired to help fix the acerbic behavior of rainmakers who caused heavily-recruited and talented younger lawyers to…

LANDMARK SURVEY: Ratings affect most lawyers when hiring or making a referral to another lawyer

8 years ago

The endless debate about whether superlative ratings affect lawyers in private practice when making a referral to or hiring another…

SURVEYS: Marketing spending down, staffing and personal effort up

8 years ago

Local and regional corporate, transactional and defense firms are hiring full-time in-house marketers while reducing their firm's out-of-pocket marketing expenses…

“It’s the most wonderful time of the year…”

8 years ago

Tis' the season for law firms to begin the debate of holiday cards and gifts.  Who gets what?   How much…