Business Development Without The Babysitter: A Smarter Model For Working Mothers
Lunch is the most underutilized rainmaking tool in the profession.
13 Marketing Tips For Successful Rainmaking (Part II)
There is certainly nothing scarier than worrying about how to be a successful rainmaker, so here's some advice.
What Even Is AI ‘Competence’? It Depends.
Takeaways from a Legalweek panel on evolving malpractice risks.
13 Marketing Tips For Successful Rainmaking (Part I)
There is certainly nothing scarier than worrying about how to be a successful rainmaker, so here's some advice.
You Gotta Believe: 13 Practical Ideas For Career Success
What can you do to become more self-confident? You will only be as successful as you believe you can be.
Making Rain: Prepare Like The Beatles
What are you working on now to make yourself a more valuable lawyer to your clients?
Biglaw Business Development: 7 Tips From Top Rainmakers
Prominent partners from five top law firms share the secrets of their success.
Product Spotlight: Lexis® Verdict & Settlement Analyzer
Put away the guesswork—Lexis® Verdict & Settlement Analyzer helps legal professionals assess case potential with confidence by using data-driven insights from the industry’s largest collection of verdicts and settlements.
Rainmaking And Relationship-Building: 5 Proven Strategies
If you feel business development is not receiving the attention it deserves in your practice, you’re not alone.
Non-Sequiturs: 10.07.15
* How are law firms winning new clients? Check out the details of a new study. [Business of Law Blog] * Which law school lays claim to the very best piece of swag? [TaxProf Blog] * Oh, the lengths people will go to keep the 10 Commandments on public property. Good news for lawyers, lots of litigation ahead. [Wonkette] * Can you safely handle some side action? Or are you a goodie-goodie ill-equipped for danger? [Law and More] * Regrets? He has a few. Meet the former congressman that created the law to restrict research into gun violence, but wishes he hadn't. [Huffington Post] * Bad news: your right to a sex party is not protected by the Constitution. Stupid founders' intent. [Jezebel]
Reinventing The Law Business: Rainmaking – The Greatest Secret Revealed
Managing partner Bruce Stachenfeld shares a crucial -- perhaps depressing, perhaps inspiring -- secret to marketing success.
Biglaw Business Development (Part 3) — The Hard Way
Anonymous Partner asks: How can you get other lawyers to send work your way?
The New Way Litigators Handle Depositions Applies AI Every Step Of The Way
Depositions by Filevine help with scheduling, tracking goals, and trial prep.
Biglaw Business Development (Part 2) — The Harder Way
If you want to be your firm's next big rainmaker, why not give some of this advice a try?
Biglaw Business Development (Part 1) — The Hardest Way
Have you had any success generating business through a cold call? Here is what Anonymous Partner thinks of the practice.
Non-Sequiturs: 11.30.12
* Just in case you haven’t seen enough responses to the Case Western Law dean’s New York Times op-ed, here are some more. (Plus, with this, you’re getting the additional bonus of an incredibly sad letter from a young lawyer.) [Associate's Mind] * Oh mon dieu! Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s legal team is now denying that that there was ever a settlement in the hotel maid’s sexual assault suit civil suit, and especially not a $6M settlement — because that’s apparently “flatly false.” [Slate] * You’ve probably led a sad and lonely existence if you’re laying on your death bed and worrying about who will inherit your iTunes library. Don’t worry, they’re headed to a “legal black hole,” anyway. [Legal Blog Watch] * And in other news, some teenagers are so obsessed with their tech gadgets, like cellphones, that they’d allegedly be willing to kill their family and pry the damn thing from their cold dead hands. [Legal Juice] * Please remember to vote for your favorite law blog (coughcough Above the Law coughcough) in the Blawg 100 in the News/Analysis category, and all the rest of the sites you read in other categories, too! [ABA Journal] * After the jump, Bloomberg Law’s Lee Pacchia speaks with law firm consultant Tim Corcoran of the Corcoran Consulting Group about the future of rainmaking and business development in Biglaw….