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By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | December 5, 2007
Five key factors are driving today's economy: client sophistication; connection; transparency; governance; and modularisation. These forces are steering the professional services sector towards commoditisation, where clients perceive minimal differences between most offerings and often squeeze their suppliers on fees. Only legal services suppliers that actively engage their clients in deep, collaborative relationships are able to differentiate themselves.
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By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | December 5, 2007
Conference calling has become an integral part of the legal world. Lawyers routinely schedule calls for everything, from new client consultations to transaction negotiations to arbitration hearings with a judge in attendance.
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By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | December 5, 2007
Desktop automation has been around for years. Ghost was written in 1996 to enable IT support people to clone a computer. ZENworks was introduced by NetWare in 1998 to help manage server and desktop configurations across the network: it is very far from being a new idea. What is interesting about it, however, is that it never stops evolving.
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By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | November 28, 2007
In today's legal services market it is important to keep abreast of the changing needs and concerns of companies involved in disputes. In this way we can develop the supportive role that both in-house and external legal advisers play in guiding clients towards the resolution of disputes.
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By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | November 21, 2007
"We aim to become a trusted adviser". A hackneyed phrase, much used in the mission statements of professional services firms, but there is often little real understanding of what it really means. Like "putting clients first", it sounds good and is designed to make clients feel they are at the centre of things.
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By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | November 21, 2007
What started out as a necessary upgrade to our business-critical telephony systems soon became an opportunity to achieve much more. In the past two years we have achieved 50% organic growth and, with similar ambitions for the future, our key business goals are improving customer experience and productivity while managing costs.
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By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | November 21, 2007
Outsourcing is one of the major trends in the legal industry at the moment. Whether it is moving peripheral administrative tasks to a third-party provider or moving your entire IT department to a subsidiary in India, accessing low-cost workforces is the flavour of the month for the legal manager.
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By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | November 14, 2007
"Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; he who would search for pearls must dive below." So wrote John Dryden in 1678. And so, too, every solicitor makes minor mistakes in his day-to-day work - inconsequential errors and misjudgements. But so what, you may ask, if beneath the surface the client is getting the pearls of a first-rate job? And let us not forget that the standard is generally very high. Clients are, by and large, well served.
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By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | November 1, 2007
Top business lawyers have played down talk that increasing commoditisation and use of IT will bring about the death of the industry, following claims made by leading technology expert Richard Susskind. The predictions come in Susskind's new book, The End of Lawyers?, in which he says the legal profession needs to undergo a significant transformation to avoid extinction. He argues that lawyers need to ask themselves what elements of their workload could be undertaken more cheaply and efficiently as "the market is unlikely to tolerate expensive lawyers" for work that can be better done by "smart systems and processes"
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By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | October 31, 2007
It is widely documented that web users are increasingly using search engines as a path to access relevant information. As more information becomes accessible on the internet, business people need a simple and accurate way of finding what they want. These requirements may be for research, for finding goods, services or even trading partners and suppliers. The internet has become an integral part of modern business communications and this raises the question of how much attention your business pays to ensuring that its content is properly accessible to search engines.
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By Ryan Lovelace | March 15, 2018
Average partner profits reached more than $2.1 million last year at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr.
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By Brian Baxter | March 15, 2018
Panama's Mossack Fonseca is poised to shut down at month's end, almost two years after suffering a massive data breach. Its founders are facing money laundering charges.
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By Rose Walker | March 15, 2018
Is Mark Shillito's senior partner run indicative of long-running resentments at HSF?
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By LTN Staff | March 15, 2018
Lead magnets are marketing tactics such as downloadable content, e-books, checklists, how to's, etc., that get potential clients interested in your organization. And finding the right ones make a difference.
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By Michael A. Tanenbaum | March 14, 2018
As the legal industry searches to find solutions to its historical inefficient delivery of services, corporate counsel are evaluating approaches to the engagement of outside counsel best suited to meet their legal and business needs.
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By Jeff Coburn | March 14, 2018
Over many years working with smaller and midsize law firms throughout the country, I've experienced a wide range of firm typologies. Much of the difference among such firms can be attributed to the degree of “firmness” that smaller and midsize firms exhibit.
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By Roy Strom | March 14, 2018
The litigation finance giant announced Wednesday that it had tripled its investment commitments on new cases.
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By Rose Walker | March 14, 2018
Firms in the Cayman Islands, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia and Mauritius are among those being absorbed by Dentons in its latest round of global expansion.
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By Christine Simmons | March 14, 2018
The deal resolves discrimination claims brought by Kerrie Campbell and two other partners against Chadbourne & Parke and its successor firm, Norton Rose Fulbright.
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By Rose Walker | March 14, 2018
Expansion continues via deals with law firms in Africa, the Caribbean and Southeast Asia
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The African Legal Awards recognise exceptional achievement within Africa s legal community during a period of rapid change.
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