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Law Firm Leaders: Strategy
For Lawyers as for Athletes, There Is No ‘I’ in ‘Team’
 If you want to build firm revenue, don’t let individual players steal the show. Working as a team means greater value for the client and greater long-term success for the firm.
Law Firm Innovation: Will You Lead or Follow?
 While other firms are bracing themselves to weather the bleak economy, here’s how you can use these tough times to foster change and catapult your firm into the forefront of the marketplace.
Reducing Your Exposure: Seven Steps to a Law Firm Risk Management Program
Risk management is now, more than ever, critical to effective business management, to surviving difficult times and to flourishing as economic conditions improve..
Lessons in Leadership, the Law Firm Way
The fundamental task of law firm leaders is to help everyone in the firm work together. Lawyers and staff who physically share the same office environment should share an outlook that shapes the development of common goals and agreement on how to achieve them. Lack of such an outlook inevitably can be traced to lack of leadership.
Law firm general counsel ease risk management
When Stephen Sibold was named Bennett Jones LLP’s general counsel in July, he became only the third in-house general counsel in a Canadian law firm. That’s not much of a trend, but it’s nonetheless a sign of the growing appeal of GCs at a time when firms are putting more resources into risk management.
Successful Planning Is No Accident for Law Firms
Many law firms struggle with the problem of getting lawyers to accept a firm-wide business plan.
Navigating your way through the ‘perfect storm’
“Perfect storm” seems an apt term to describe the current business environment of law firms...
Secrets to successful practice groups
As firms implemented national or firm-wide practice groups, they discovered that they can attract national and international clients, achieve much greater profitability, create more consistent client service across their firm, increase lawyer retention, and more.
Not If, But When: Prepare a Disaster Recovery Plan Today
There are two types of law firms: those that have experienced a disaster, and those that will. “Disaster” can come in many forms, any of which is unexpected and can ultimately mean the demise of the firm.
Greening Your Law Firm: A Practical Guide to Creating an Environment-Friendly Law Office
 Many forward-thinking lawyers want to know how they can reduce their ecological footprint, beyond using a recyle bin. This practical guide will help you on your way to greening your practice, from getting partners and staff onside to easy tips, suggestions and a checklist for implementing environmentally sustainable policies and practices for your law firm.
Podcasts
CBA Task Force on Conflicts of Interest: Final Report, Recommendations and Toolkit
 At the 2008 CBA Canadian Legal Conference in Québec City, a panel of conflicts experts discussed the Final Report, Recommendations and Toolkit of the CBA Task Force on Conflicts of Interest.
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Keeping Them by Sending Them Away: Sabbaticals and Lawyer Retention
 Sabbaticals can involve considerable planning and even a change of your firm’s culture. Listen to determine if a sabbatical solution is right for you and your firm: the arguments for and against; the building blocks of a program; the keys to successful implementation; and a sample policy which can serve as a starting point for your firm.
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