Boutique Law Firms
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Boutique Law Firms, Small Law Firms
Always Be Training
Formal training is necessary for staff at every level, but this formal training cannot replace the kind of daily training you must ensure that all staff at all levels receive. -
Biglaw, Boutique Law Firms, Small Law Firms
Reinventing The Law Business: Trying And Failing And Succeeding – Lessons Learned
Managing partner Bruce Stachenfeld shares wisdom learned over the course of his long and successful career. - Sponsored
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use. -
Boutique Law Firms, Email Scandals, Small Law Firms
Beyond Biglaw: Strong Attachments (Or: Important Advice About Email)
Sloppiness with email attachments will dent your reputation, especially if it occurs frequently or overlaps with other demonstrations of carelessness.
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Boutique Law Firms, Litigators, Small Law Firms
The Un-Sweet Spot Of Litigation
Our system handles both very small and very high value disputes fairly well, but it does an atrocious job of handling disputes in the middle -- and litigators must remember this as they advise their clients. -
Boutique Law Firms, Small Law Firms
Beyond Biglaw: Suffer To Transform
It is often the suffering, particularly at a lawyer’s formative stages, that brings lasting transformation for the better. -
Boutique Law Firms, Small Law Firms
Protect Yourself
As lawyers, we need to protect ourselves from challenging and, at the worst, deceitful or self-motivated clients. -
Biglaw, Boutique Law Firms, Job Searches, Layoffs, Small Law Firms
Reinventing The Law Business: You Lost Your Job In A Law Firm – What Do You Do Now? (Part 3)
Managing partner Bruce Stachenfeld concludes his series of columns about how to bounce back from being laid off. -
Boutique Law Firms, Small Law Firms
Beyond Biglaw: Foul Of Mouth, Foul Of Mind?
While those with puritanical tendencies may consider the presence of prodigious profanity in legal offices unprofessional, there are actually some benefits to cursing that may explain its pervasive use. - Sponsored
Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
If 2023 introduced legal professionals to generative AI, then 2024 will be when law firms start adapting to utilize it. Things are moving fast, so… -
Boutique Law Firms, Small Law Firms
Your Client Relationship Needs Face Time
Face to face time is a fantastic opportunity to build rapport -- to build trust, and a connection -- with the clients. -
Boutique Law Firms, Partner Issues, Small Law Firms
Beyond Biglaw: 3 Quality Control Tips For Firms
With competition for clients fierce, and enhanced by the expressed the desire of many corporate clients to keep as much work as possible in-house, a focus on quality control is a must for firms at every level of the legal profession. -
Boutique Law Firms, Partner Issues, Small Law Firms
In The Attorney-Client Relationship, You Are The Service Professional
Managing clients can be enormously difficult work. But this is a service profession and that’s the job. -
Biglaw, Boutique Law Firms, Job Searches, Layoffs, Small Law Firms
Reinventing The Law Business: You Lost Your Job In A Law Firm – What Do You Do Now? (Part 2)
Tips from managing partner Bruce Stachenfeld about recruiters, networking, résumés, and more. -
Boutique Law Firms, Old People, Small Law Firms
Beyond Biglaw: Gray Innovation
Intellectual property firms of all sizes would do well to develop marketing strategies targeting “senior” innovators; they can often be great clients to work with, as columnist Gaston Kroub explains.
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Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
The rise of remote work has dramatically reshaped the relationship between Lawyers and Law Firms, see how Scale LLP has taken the steps to get…
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Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
If 2023 introduced legal professionals to generative AI, then 2024 will be when law firms start adapting to utilize it. Things are moving fast, so…
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Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use.
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The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms.
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Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm.
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Boutique Law Firms, Screw-Ups, Small Law Firms
Beyond Biglaw: Mistake Tolerance
The likelihood that clients (or colleagues) will forgive a mistake depends on a few key factors, as columnist Gaston Kroub explains. -
Boutique Law Firms, Litigators, Small Law Firms
Prepare For The Physical Realities Of Actually Being In Court
Make sure that you prepare yourself for how you will perform your work in court, including how you will access information. -
Biglaw, Boutique Law Firms, Job Searches, Layoffs, Small Law Firms
Reinventing The Law Business: You Lost Your Job In A Law Firm – What Do You Do Now? (Part 1)
Advice from managing partner Bruce Stachenfeld (who got laid-off himself, once upon a time). -
Biglaw, Boutique Law Firms, Small Law Firms
Beyond Biglaw: Categorizing Clients
In order to make a good decision about how to handle clients, it is important to assess their actual or potential contribution to the firm’s professional and financial bottom line. -
Boutique Law Firms, Partner Issues, Small Law Firms
Use Reviews Well
When you have your essential sit-down meetings with your supervisees, be respectful but frank, and listen as much as you speak. -
Boutique Law Firms, Health Care / Medicine, Small Law Firms
Beyond Biglaw: Walk And Talk
Many of you are engaged in a dangerous activity, as you read these words.... -
Boutique Law Firms, Intellectual Property, Kenyon & Kenyon, Partner Issues
Will This Law Firm Survive 2016?
There have been a lot of partner departures, but the firm's leader claims that things are looking up.