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Ralph Allen of Kelley Drye & Warren on Driving Profitability: The Intersection of Operations & BD - Passle's CMO Series Podcast...

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Fresh from the COO panel at CMO Series Live in New York, Ralph Allen, Chief Operating Officer of Kelley Drye & Warren, joins the CMO Series Podcast to share his insights on strategically aligning law firm operations with...more

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State of the Legal Industry: the Key Word is “Adaptation”

Recently, I noticed an EXPLOSION of interest in my post from last year on the state of the legal industry, where we talked about relaxing because the industry was familiar with contractions. This is still true, but the word...more

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How GCs Will Choose Law Firms in 2024

It’s not your imagination: Legal business development in 2024 is harder. In a January survey by BTI Consulting, 53 percent of lawyers and law firm leaders said business development would get harder this year. And it’s...more

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Can Your Brand Be Too Premium?

It is almost an enviable problem. After a law firm – let’s call it Stark & Banner – won a number of high-profile, high-stakes cases, the firm earned a reputation as a premium litigation boutique in its area of specialty....more

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7 Things You Must Know Before Starting Your Own Firm

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I was in my seventh year of practice and suffering from a classic case of burnout when I convinced myself that I would be happier at a small firm. I daydreamed about setting the litigation strategy for all of my cases without...more

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How To Start a Law Firm Without a Plan or Budget - CONCLUSION: You’re On the Right Track

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As promised, this book has set you on the right track by building a strong foundation in your first 14 days. You aren’t done, but starting off right will save you so many headaches. You probably feel overwhelmed. ...more

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How To Start a Law Firm Without a Plan or Budget - Day 14: Live Your Bliss, And Become A Happy Expert

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The reason your bliss-following is so important is that not everything you do as an attorney creates equal value. When you focus on the big result-getters (and your own self-fulfillment is a crucial result to measure), your...more

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How To Start a Law Firm Without a Plan or Budget - Day 13: How To Follow Your Bliss

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Today we go from process understanding from personal understanding. The secret to sustained happiness in your work is not following your passion, but discovering your bliss. Let’s talk about that. I’m assuming something when...more

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How To Start a Law Firm Without a Plan or Budget - Day 12: You Can't Do It All

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Welcome to Day 12! Lawyers are a lonely lot. The loneliest, in fact. Today we’ll cover why that’s so harmful to you and your clients, and we’ll make a plan to avoid it....more

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How To Start a Law Firm Without a Plan or Budget - Day 11: Good marketing means less selling

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Let’s talk now about how you make it easy for your avatar to find you. After all, if you’re setting everything up to make that person happy, you have to be able to get together. You need to develop a marketing strategy. For...more

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How To Start a Law Firm Without a Plan or Budget - Day 10: Good Marketing Means More Money

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Communicating Culture - The way others perceive us depends on a collection of interactions. People may judge you by reputation, by how you treat others in their presence, by the way you treat them directly, or maybe by...more

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How To Start a Law Firm Without a Plan or Budget - Day 9: Use The Right Tools

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Welcome to Day 9! Remember back when Peter Drucker told us a business is all about innovation and marketing? We’ll get to marketing in the next two days, but today and yesterday are all about innovation — getting people...more

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How To Start a Law Firm Without a Plan or Budget - Day 8: Document What You Do

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Welcome to Day 8! Your business is worth nothing when you die. Sorry. You need to recognize that and change it. What’s Your Law Firm Worth? I saw this all the time in divorce cases: Spouse 1 built up a professional...more

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How To Start a Law Firm Without a Plan or Budget - Day 7: Do What An Owner Does

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Welcome to Day 7! Before we talk about how you should run your business, I want to give you a view of how I ran mine. Hopefully this transparency is helpful. Learning From Business - We know they don’t teach us much...more

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How To Start a Law Firm Without a Plan or Budget - Day 6: Ethics can Kill

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Welcome to Day 6! Last week we talked a bit about managing your tasks. Today we’ll talk about how to do that in a way that doesn’t get you in trouble. The Best Way to Stay Out of Trouble - I have two observations...more

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How To Start a Law Firm Without a Plan or Budget - Day 5: Your Self-Education System

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Welcome to Day 5! On day 2 you wrote down the gaps in your skills; today we’ll go a step further and map a plan for developing true expertise....more

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How To Start a Law Firm Without a Plan or Budget - Day 4: You Have Nothing Without A Good Product

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Today we address a problem: what worked for the bar exam won’t work for a case. Up to now, your legal education has targeted a test. To really advise a client you’ll have to have a deeper knowledge of the substantive law than...more

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How To Start a Law Firm Without a Plan or Budget - Day 3: The Path to Mastery

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Welcome to Day 3! Yesterday you got a sense of how hard this is going to be, and you made a list of where the holes are in your personal education. You’ve identified the what and now you need to map out the how....more

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How To Start a Law Firm Without a Plan or Budget - Day 2: You Are Ill-Prepared

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Welcome to Day 2! I told you yesterday that you are especially qualified to build a law firm, that you are incredibly smart and that you can do this. I 100% believe that....more

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How To Start a Law Firm Without a Plan or Budget - Day 1: You Can Do This!

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Do you feel doubt? Are you scared? Is the thought of starting your own law firm keeping you up at night? I know it kept me up, but I’m here to tell you how I dug myself out of that hole. Law practice got screwed up. ...more

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How To Start a Law Firm Without a Plan or Budget - Introduction: A Guide To Your First 14 Days

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My name is Mike Whelan. As managing editor at Casetext, I advocate for solo attorneys both inside the company and to the industry as a whole. I practiced as a solo myself for several years. I’ve done some incredibly stupid...more

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