Business Development, Legal Operations, Law Practice Management

Law Firms Are Bleeding Talent Because They Refuse to Build Leaders

Best Era on 7/23/2025

Law firms have a leadership crisis. Not a shortage of managing partners or practice group heads, but a fundamental inability to develop actual leaders from within their ranks. The traditional model of promoting the best...more

How Is GenAI Changing Legal Workflows?

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 6/30/2025

Orrick’s Zac Padgett sat down with lawyer-turned-consultant R.C. Rondero De Mosier to discuss GenAI adoption in the legal field and how lawyers can unlock the value of it. Learn about: Aligning incentives to drive AI...more

Managing Client Expectations in a Transforming Legal Market

Epiq on 6/20/2025

At the ALA National Conference in Nashville, a timely panel brought together operational leaders to explore the evolving expectations of law firm clients. The session, titled “Evolving Client Expectations,” featured senior...more

Why Backlinks Are Essential for Thought Leadership at Your Law Firm

9Sail on 6/3/2025

Your law firm likely aspires to be considered the leading authority in your practice area. The challenge is that with so many people competing for this recognition, it can take time to stand out from the crowd. ...more

A Survival Roadmap For Lawyers and Law Firms In The Age of AI

Best Era on 5/12/2025

Last week, I had the opportunity to spend time with Cain Elliott, Chief Legal Futurist at Filevine. Our conversation was both inspiring and jarring. He walked into the room and asked a question that every law firm, lawyer,...more

Will Your Law Firm Exist in 5 Years?

Best Era on 4/8/2025

The legal profession is standing at the edge of a radical transformation. Technology, shifting client expectations, new business models, and the accelerating pace of change are exposing a critical question: Will your law firm...more

Proactive Pricing for Law Firms

LawVision on 3/24/2025

A few years ago, I wrote a blog on proactive profitability. Given the evolving dynamics and trends in pricing in 2025, I want to explore a parallel concept: proactive strategic pricing. ...more

Changing Out of White Shoes: Why General Counsel Are Moving Work to Challenger Firms

Mitratech Holdings, Inc on 2/3/2025

Market Dynamics Are Changing In-House Relationships with Law Firms - A quiet revolution is taking place in outside counsel management: general counsel (GCs) are turning away from the traditional elite law firms — bastions...more

Top Seven Tips for Law Firm CRM Success in 2025

ClientsFirst Consulting on 1/8/2025

As law firms move further into the digital age, CRM (Client Relationship Management) systems have emerged as critical tools in the marketing and business development (BD) toolkit....more

2024 Reader Focus: Artificial Intelligence, No Surprise

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC on 1/2/2025

Year’s end for this blog has typically been observed by an assessment of readership trends during the previous 12 months. Which articles have been most popular, as measured by reads and shares? Were there any subject areas...more

Management 101: Hold on Loosely

Jaburg Wilk on 10/3/2024

Management is about execution. More specifically, management is about executing the visions of your company’s leadership. Managers work in the present while leaders work in the future. Managers of people need to focus on how...more

The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Husch Blackwell LLP on 9/3/2024

I picked up Cal Newport’s latest book, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout in the airport on my way to Yosemite. For someone who has spent a career making things better, faster, and cheaper, the...more

Lateral Partner Integration Requires Business Development Plan

Goulston & Storrs PC on 5/30/2024

How can law firms attract, integrate, and retain top talent across all levels while gaining a competitive advantage? This is the proverbial question that remains top of mind for recruiters and business development...more

You won't be successful with your thought leadership unless you do this

Copo Strategies + Law Firm Editorial Service on 3/19/2024

In this video, Wayne Pollock (Founder of the Law Firm Editorial Service) explains why the key to a successful thought leadership program is showing up and consistently producing content. About Wayne Pollock/the Law Firm...more

[Event] TAP on Tour - January 29th, New York, NY

Mitratech Holdings, Inc on 1/22/2024

Back by popular demand, Mitratech is hitting the road again in 2024 for another rendition of our TAP on Tour Event series. Last year, Mitratech traveled to six cities — joined by over 100 automation beginners and experts —...more

CLIENTSFirst Consulting’s Top Five Blogs and Videos of 2023

ClientsFirst Consulting on 1/4/2024

The world of marketing technology is ever-changing, and with these changes comes its own set of challenges and opportunities. This past year was no different. We saw more firms than ever before embracing new technologies such...more

New Year, New CRM: Breaking Old Habits in Your Law Firm

ClientsFirst Consulting on 12/27/2023

As we usher in a new year, it’s natural to reflect on past habits and seek improvement. In the context of law firms, this often means addressing CRM (Customer Relationship Management) practices. But why do so many New Year’s...more

Global Impact: Exploring Business Continuity and Growth with Offshoring Strategies

Integreon on 12/19/2023

In the current landscape of heightened customer expectations and fierce industry competition, law firms find themselves needing to exceed traditional service delivery norms. The need to go above and beyond in meeting client...more

Social Media Algorithms for Law Firms: What Legal Marketers Need to Know

Good2bSocial on 11/2/2023

The power of social media cannot be denied, but the landscape is complex and constantly changing. It’s easy to get frustrated with the various algorithms that control how much of your messaging gets to the masses. Every major...more

Don’t worry—you won’t give away your special sauce in your thought-leadership content

Copo Strategies + Law Firm Editorial Service on 7/29/2022

Your special sauce consists of more than the knowledge and wisdom you will display in your thought-leadership marketing and business development content....more

Boost your law firm’s cross-selling efforts with thought-leadership content

Copo Strategies + Law Firm Editorial Service on 6/9/2022

Make thought-leadership marketing and business development content a catalyst for your law firm’s cross-selling efforts....more

9 Key Takeaways From Goodwinʼs Legal Operations & Corporate Counsel Roundtable

Goodwin on 11/23/2021

Strategies and best practices to contain costs, maximize efficiencies and leverage innovation to collaborate across teams - Goodwin, in conjunction with the Northeast chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC),...more

Productizing Your Corporate Legal Department’s Services: Making Build vs. Buy vs. Outsourcing Decisions

Lighthouse on 7/6/2021

For years, general counsel have weighed the pros and cons of doing a task internally versus sending the work to outside counsel – this is not a new dichotomy. What is newer, however, is the proliferation of technology...more

Productizing Your Corporate Legal Department’s Services: Understanding the Needs of the Business

Lighthouse on 6/28/2021

Many law departments are reactionary. Someone comes to legal with a “legal” question and they help that person. Although this makes a lot of sense, as legal is a support department, it makes it very difficult to thematically...more

Stay in Step: 5 Must-Have Workflows for Legal Operations, Part 1

Mitratech Holdings, Inc on 6/8/2021

In modern corporate legal departments, what are the key Legal Operations workflows to automate in order to succeed? Workflows are the most fundamental components of how any organization operates. That’s certainly true of...more

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