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Your Law Career Is a House of Cards Without a Book of Business

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Let me tell you a truth that will make every partner at your firm uncomfortable: if you don't have a book of business, you don't have a career. You have a job. And jobs disappear. I've watched brilliant lawyers get shown the...more

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How I Transitioned My $6M Practice to Younger Partners

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In his final two years of practice, attorney David Wood spent hundreds of hours migrating his $6 million book of business to younger partners. Here he explains how...more

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A Go-to-Market Checklist for Midsized and Boutique Law Firms

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Mike Mellor shares a checklist of questions leaders of midsized- and boutique firms should ask and answer to significantly increase their chances of competing with Goliaths....more

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Market Leaders Podcast Episode 73: “Cultivating a BD Mindset with Associates” with Katie Munroe

Market leaders are skilled at finding opportunity in the places most people overlook. In this week's episode of the Market Leaders Podcast, Katie Munroe, Chief Marketing Officer at Zuckerman Spaeder LLP, describes how she...more

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Market Leaders Podcast: "Rate Strategies that Maximize Client Value” with Colin Keefe

In this episode, David Ackert, Founder & CEO at Ackert Inc. speaks with Colin Keefe, a Partner and Chair of the Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group at mid sized law firm Fitzpatrick Lentz & Bubba, P.C. (FLB). Tune in to...more

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The Four Legal Sales Strategies

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Eric Dewey looks at four key selling situations for lawyers and law firms, and how to best approach each of them for success....more

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[Checklist] Questions to Understand the Business of a Potential Client

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Having a strong understanding of your client's business, their operations, their industry, and their challenges is critical to becoming a trusted advisor. Not only does it enable you to better serve your client, but strong...more

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How to Select Clients for Cross-Selling

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Eric Dewey shares the key questions you should be asking as you identify the best clients for cross-selling your service....more

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Think Big, Act Small: The Power of a Niche to Grow Your Business

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It’s easy to be seduced by the magical thinking that bigger is better, but an inch-deep-mile-wide approach to business development almost never works. ...more

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Selling Through the Current Challenge - The Thought Leadership Project

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Business development during an economic downturn will always feel challenging. Selling during times of crisis can feel downright daunting. In this latest episode of the Thought Leadership Project, Jay and Tom tackle the...more

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In the New Year, Plan for Quality Over Quantity When It Comes to Clients

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Ideal clients who pay your full rate are the ones who will help you reach your revenue goal, and protect your brand, sanity, and long-term growth....more

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Collection Problem? No. Sales Problem

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If you struggle to collect what you bill, you have a sales problem. The collection problem is merely a symptom, and a consequence, of the underlying sales problem. ...more

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The Rainmakers Club: Expand the Scope of What That Means to Your Lawyers

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Instead of primarily chasing clients and new matters, what if we all began to take on a larger scale view of what rainmaking really means?...more

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Growth Planning: If You Were This Client’s Only Law Firm, What Services Would They be Buying?

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It's easier to get more work from an existing client than it is to get a new client....more

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Law Firm Content Strategy: How to Use Reader Data to Understand Clients & Broader Market Trends

A study in smart data: see how Clinton Gary's marketing & BD team uses reader data to create meaningful face time with clients and prospects and monitor key movements in key industries....more

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10 Business Development Tips for Attorneys

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Ten easy-to-implement tips to enhance your business development efforts....more

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Lawyers, How to Choose A Specialty Practice Area

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From Eric Dewey, four key considerations for any lawyer trying to decide which specialty area they should focus on for marketing and business development purposes....more

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Transforming Lawyers Into Salespeople - Law Firm Alchemy

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Recap of a recent rockstar LMA presentation on the role of sales within law firms, by Steve Bell, Melissa Croteau, and Paul Mickey....more

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Sales and Law Firms: It's Time to Embrace the 'S' Word

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Rich Bracken with a perspective on how we're already selling every day, but it is time to take sales in legal seriously. Here's how and why....more

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The Sustainable 2019 Resolution for Lawyers: Be Better Than The Competition

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Rich Bracken offers a few old school tactics and mindsets that lawyers must implement to stand out from the competition in the new year....more

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The Simple Way to Overcome Business Development Aversion In Lawyers

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Eric Dewey with a thoughtful perspective on how mindset impacts an attorney's business development approach (and subsequent successes or failures) and what can be done about that....more

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Using Business Intelligence to Innovate - Market Leaders Podcast with Iris Jones of McNees, Wallace & Nurick

Join David Ackert as he interviews Iris Jones, Chief Business Development & Marketing Officer at McNees, Wallace & Nurick on this episode of the Market Leaders Podcast. Tune in to hear them discuss: - How Iris' award-winning...more

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Lawyers, Put the Kibosh on Your Random Acts of Business Development

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No more random acts of BD. Here, from Lindsay Griffiths, is what to do instead....more

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11 Ways to Strengthen Your Existing Relationships Today and Bring in More Business

Tips for lawyers at any level to increase their books of business by focusing on cultivating and strengthening relationships....more

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3 Ways LinkedIn Navigator is a Powerful Business Development Tool for Lawyers

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"Like a CRM on steroids." JD Supra's Kara McKenna explains how lawyers and BD teams can unleash the networking and intelligence power of LinkedIn with the platform's Navigator offering....more

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