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Lateral Partner Integration, Part 1 The Importance of Partnering with Marketing and Business Development Departments to...

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Integrating lateral partners into a law firm is a multifaceted process that goes far beyond onboarding logistics. It requires strategic planning, cultural alignment, and—most critically—collaboration across departments. Among...more

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Why Strategic Planning Matters for Legal Marketing and Business Development Teams

Marketing and business development teams are essential to a law firm’s growth and success; however, these teams are often stretched thin, balancing a wide range of tasks from managing marketing operations and communications...more

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[Webinar] A Data-Driven Analysis of Digital Visibility Across the Am Law 200 - July 16th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ET

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Digital underperformance is creating measurable business risk for law firms. Between 2024 and 2025, Am Law 200 firms collectively lost over 1.4 billion backlinks—digital credibility signals that directly impact search...more

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Hunting in Packs: Why Law Firms Must Align Around Client Needs, Not Internal Structures

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The days of the lone-wolf attorney are numbered; the future belongs to firms that hunt in packs. Those who incentivize and reward true teaming will win. Mike Mellor explains....more

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Senior Partners are the Golden Ticket for Law Firms

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Coaching younger lawyers on BD is an obvious way to grow future rainmakers, but it should never be limited to partners in the first half of their careers....more

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Building Long-Lasting Client Relationships

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Driving client engagement is important. With demand for services remaining almost flat, firms are grabbing share of wallet from one another. Not sure what to ask clients? How to build long-lasting trusted advisor...more

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If you don’t know what CX is . . . you need to read this!

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There are limited ways for a law firm to differentiate from other firms. After all, the practice of law is basically the sale of hours (expertise) in exchange for fees. So how can a firm actually stand out from the rest?...more

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Making the Right Moves in a Year of Uncertainty

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Recent legal industry reports (i.e., the Citi Advisory and Georgetown Report) have highlighted financial performance for law firms in 2022, which presented law firm leaders with many challenges and opportunities while...more

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Will the Lateral’s Clients Move?

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There is no way to guarantee a lateral's clients will make the move to a new firm. But a series of questions can examine the quality of these relationships and the likelihood that the client will move with the lateral...more

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The Evolution of the Law Firm Client Team

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Remember when “client team” referred to just the attorney’s billing to a particular client? With flat demand for legal services now and for the foreseeable future, law firms are in a race to increase market share with their...more

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From Client Teams to Strategic Account Management:  Measuring the Costs and Returns of SAM

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Second of two blog posts by LawVision’s Steve Bell, Silvia Coulter and Yvonne Nath In our previous blog post, we noted the emergence in the public accounting sector (and hopefully in the legal profession) of a new era of law...more

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Why Your Firm Needs a Sector-Based Strategy—and How to Build One

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There may be challenges along the way, but for law firm leaders that successfully organize by sector, opportunity awaits.      The general counsel of a major U.S. health care provider summed up the fundamental...more

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From Client Teams to Strategic Account Management:  The Next Wave in Law Firm Sales

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Lingering and debilitating flat revenue growth at the vast majority of law firms is convincing law firm leaders to accelerate efforts to professionalize sales and business development, according to speakers at several...more

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Clarify and Manage Expectations

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JW Way Fundamental #3: Clarify and Manage Expectations "Establish mutually agreeable expectation as to the time, expense, and goals of every engagement. Let people know what to expect and when. Ensure clarity by reviewing...more

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Time to Get Focused Before 2019 Gets Away from Us!

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Wait, what? It’s still January, right? Well yes, it is, but now is the time to lay the groundwork for a strategically successful year. Most of us are just finishing up figuring out what happened and allocating the fruits of...more

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When Will the Billable Hour Die? Conversation with Law Firm Change Agent John Chisholm (Part One)

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Changing the ways lawyers charge for their services and, equally important, the ways that clients pay for them, requires more than flipping a switch and sending out a different type of bill. ...more

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