LAWBIZ COACHES CORNER: Whatever your focus, specialize in value
There are those who believe that no matter the field, one can succeed only through specialization.
LAWBIZ COACHES CORNER: What should your advertising say?
Recently I advised a caller on the content of an advertisement that he wanted to place in order to provide notice that his practice was for sale.
LAWBIZ COACHES CORNER: It’s all about perspective
“Perception is reality,” is an old phrase known to all marketing and sales people.
LAWBIZ COACHES CORNER: Of productivity and age
The issue of the shaky status of older lawyers at large law firms refuses to die, as the de-equitization of partners “past their prime” continues.
LAWBIZ COACHES CORNER: Managing relationships means reading people
The law ultimately is a people business.
LAWBIZ COACHES CORNER: Are you really in control of your client files?
Rule of Professional Conduct 1.15 states that lawyers have a professional duty to protect all documents relating to clients by requiring that client property and files be “appropriately safeguarded.”
LAWBIZ COACHES CORNER: Market may change what bar associations won’t
Although corporate law firms have seen business improve since the depths of the Great Recession, things are hardly robust, according to an analysis from one of the best-known legal consulting firms that recently appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek.
LAWBIZ COACHES CORNER: All partners are equal, but …
In George Orwell’s novel "Animal Farm," cows and sheep and horses threw off their human oppressors and united to govern themselves under the slogan “all animals are equal” … until the pigs took control and modified the slogan to say, “all animals are equal – but som[...]
LAWBIZ COACHES CORNER: Is doing it by the numbers always right?
Years ago, when I managed a company in the food industry, I met with a retail buyer who pulled out his computer analysis of how quickly products moved through his billing system. He made the criticism that my company’s products didn't sell so quickly when compared to cheese o[...]
LAWBIZ COACHES CORNER: What’s your endgame?
Several years ago the movie “Charlie Wilson’s War,” about the political maneuvering behind the war in Afghanistan, contained this description of the conflict from the congressman who was the film’s main character: “We changed the world, but we had no endgame.”
LAWBIZ COACHES CORNER: Build better practice group leadership
As large law firms have developed into “corporate” organizations to better serve corporate clients, the practice group structure has become an accepted organizational model.
LAWBIZ COACHES CORNER: Electronic media and the duty to preserve
It might seem that nothing is more temporary than a quick email, text or Twitter message. Yet these messages are increasingly subject to a duty of preservation, whether that duty is for a lawyer or on behalf of a client.
Legal News
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- Wisconsin Supreme Court issues orders amending Supreme Court rules and Wis. Stats.
- EXCLUSIVE: Former Milwaukee ‘big law’ partner attacks news media for bias against Trump
- Former Milwaukee election official fined for obtaining fake absentee ballots
- Contract dispute prevents airing of 15 regional sports networks, impacts Brewers
- Wis. middle school focuses on recovery as authorities investigate shooting
- Gov. Evers seeks applicants for Sheboygan and Green County Sheriffs
- North Carolina man who harbored Nazi memorabilia and attacked Black and Latino men sentenced to 41 months
- Nation grieves with families of officers killed in NC
- Amended complaint filed in federal court against State Bar of Wisconsin seeks punitive damages
- United Healthcare suit against cancer drug distributor time-barred
- Trump’s Wisconsin visit warns of jail time if he violates a trial gag order
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