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#LMA25 Day 2 Keynote Recap: Forward Together – The Human Edge In An Era Of Rapid Change

Heather E. McGowan, a globally recognized future-of-work strategist and best-selling author, delivered a keynote that brought equal parts clarity, urgency, and inspiration to attendees of the Legal Marketing...more

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Hiring to Fill an Office in 2025? Heed These Numbers

For the law firms that made headlines in 2024 by opening new offices, 2025 brings a new directive: filling these locations with profitable rainmakers. If you’re among the law firm leaders scouting talent in a new or growing...more

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Best Practices for Winning the War for Lateral Talent

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Lateral partner and partner group hires can provide a significant source of potential revenue growth for law firms by creating opportunities for new services, new clients, and expansion into new markets. Many law firms...more

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Hiring Associates in 2025? Your New Year’s Resolutions

If you plan to bolster your lawyer ranks with lateral associates in 2025, there are two critical steps for ensuring success. Law firms must understand the risks inherent in lateral associate hiring, then create a due...more

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Laterals and Malpractice: Clear and Present Danger

If the statistics about high failure rates of lateral partners don’t persuade you, consider another barometer: the stress levels of professional liability insurers. Indeed, lateral hiring tops the list of issues that...more

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The Practice Group Leader’s Guide to Growth in 2025

Attracting and retaining talent is the No. 1 issue for practice group leaders, according to a Withum survey of law firm leaders. And sadly, in the same survey, just 36 percent of respondents described their practice group...more

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Building Confidence for a Successful 2025 and Beyond

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Well, 2024 flew by, didn’t it? This was a year of sometimes very long days bundled together into fast weeks and even faster months for many. We now find ourselves ready to close another 12-month chapter, take a quick...more

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Minding Your LPQs: How Firms Should Draft and Deploy the Lateral Partner Questionnaire

The lateral partner questionnaire (LPQ) should not be a mere formality – instead, it should be considered your first line of defense in lateral partner hiring. ...more

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Nine Actions Smart Law Firms Take in Q4

The fourth quarter presents law firm leaders with a critical period for addressing strategic planning, financial management, and compensation adjustments. However, firms that extend their focus beyond immediate financial...more

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Beyond Red Flags: Deploying Positive Intel from Due Diligence

We admit it: Sometimes it’s tempting to lead with the negative information from pre-hire investigations. Bullying behavior, inflammatory social media posts, fabricated client relationships – these (very real) examples raise...more

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The Fastest Path to Market Share: Why Law Firm CMOs Need A Seat at the Lateral Hiring Table

A majority of attorneys and law firm leaders say business development is set to get tougher, according to a survey by BTI Consulting. Yet many of these firms are making it harder on themselves: The Legal Marketing Association...more

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Beware the Off-Cycle Lateral

Timing is everything, as the saying goes — and it certainly holds true when it comes to assessing the risk of lateral partner candidates. Indeed, Decipher Investigative Intelligence analysis reveals a significant trend:...more

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Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 24: Young Professionals and The Emerging Workforce with Kamber Parker

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Live from the annual Greenville SHRM conference, hosts Tina and Keely welcome young professional expert Kamber Parker who is the founder of The YoPro Know, a consulting firm that bridges the gap between ambitious young...more

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Law Firms Can Keep Lateral Partners With Support at Work, Home

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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

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Lateral Partner Integration Requires Business Development Plan

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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

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Andrew Laver of Porzio, Bromberg & Newman on Integrating a Culture of BD in a Super Regional Firm - Passle's CMO Series Podcast

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Business development has become a central role for ambitious law firms, regardless of their size. Today on the CMO Series Podcast, Ed Lovatt is lucky to chat with Andrew Laver, Chief Marketing and Business Development Officer...more

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How Law Firm Leaders Help Their Teams Ring the Cash Register

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As soon as a new lawyer joins a law firm, they get wind of the fact that acquiring new clients and finding new work at existing clients are key to promotions and increased compensation. Likewise, lawyers who become firm...more

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A Year of Shifting Winds – and Some Thoughts for the Year to Come

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As we enter the final countdown to the end of 2022 – hard to believe another year has come and gone! – there are lessons to be learned from where we’ve been. This year might go down as the “year of shifting winds” for the...more

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Deirdre Christin of Covington and Burling on building a more impactful career as a legal marketer - Passle's CMO Series Podcast

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As a function, legal marketing is becoming increasingly more important and plays a core role in creating impact. With this evolution, there is a greater opportunity for legal marketers to have more impact on one of the...more

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Six ways content can supercharge your law firm’s recruiting efforts

Content can do more for your law firm than just marketing. It can level up your recruiting efforts. It is a great time to be an in-demand attorney. But not so much for those law firms recruiting—or trying to...more

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TRU Trends: October 2021

ESI Sales Recruitment – The Game Is Back On - In 2020, TRU placed fewer business development professionals and received the least inbound interest in representation from e-discovery sales talent since 2010. 2020 also marked...more

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How To Rank Attorney Candidates

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The attorneys you hire to work in your law firm can make a critical difference. The better attorneys you employ in your law firm, the happier clients you will have. Having satisfied clients is vital when law firms are in...more

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Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 311: Business Development Potential for Law Students (w/Sadie Jones)

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Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! It's a good idea to start thinking about business development methods from the early days of law school, if you want to work in a law firm! Today we're chatting about this topic...more

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Is a Small Litigation Firm Right for You?

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As law firm hiring season shifts into high gear, top students are faced with a plethora of choices. In addition to the traditional on-campus interviews (or their Zoom equivalents) by big-law recruiting departments, a growing...more

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Great Reputation — No Business: how to jumpstart laterals lacking BD experience

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The lateral market — attorneys moving from one firm to another — continues to be red hot. Widespread acceptance of remote working has opened up new possibilities for those candidates who are not physically in the major...more

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