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June 2007
Contains the following articles
  1. Four Lessons That Bear Repeating
  2. Don't Undercut Yourself When Selling Your Practice
  3. Should You Give Staff a Bonus?
  4. New Tools to Help You With "The Business of Law"®
May 2007
Contains the following articles
  1. Don't Get Spooked by Ghostwriters
  2. Is Anybody Listening?
  3. Should your firm consider contingency fees?
  4. Does a J.D. need an M.B.A.?
April 2007
Contains the following articles
  1. When things don't go "according to plan"
  2. Ever read your partnership agreement?
  3. Should your firm consider contingency fees?
  4. Does a J.D. need an M.B.A.?
March 2007
Contains the following articles
  1. Say Goodbye to Goodwill?
  2. The Conundrum of Associate Pay
  3. "What's a Web Site Got That I Ain't Got?"
  4. The Business of Law® Teleseminar Series
January/February 2007
Contains the following articles
  1. Is Silence Golden?
  2. Should Credit Cards Be "Legal"?
  3. Do You Want To Succeed?
  4. Are You Keeping Up As Technology Advances?
December 2006
Contains the following articles
  1. Should you be forced into retirement?
  2. Volume discounts revisited.
  3. A productive cross-border relationship.
November 2006
Contains the following articles
  1. Lessons from the road
  2. Sure we lose money, but we make it up in volume
  3. Who's in charge here?
  4. If you had to sell, what is your price?
October 2006
Contains the following articles
  1. Were They More Enlightened in the Dark Ages?
  2. Should You Manage "By the Numbers"?
  3. Are You on the Same Page With Your Clients?
  4. What's the Latest from LawBiz® Management Company?
September 2006
Contains the following articles
  1. A Strategic Alliance That Benefits You
  2. Embezzlement - It Can Happen To You
  3. Accepting Credit Cards Is a Hot Topic for Small Firms and Solos
  4. To Be More Profitable, Have a Unique Selling Proposition
  5. Convergence or Collaboration? A Unique Selling Proposition in Action
August 2006
Contains the following articles
  1. If You Hang Your Shingle, Will They Come?
  2. The Cost of a Broken Business Model
  3. Internet Marketing 101: A Blog Is Not a Web Site
  4. The Latest News from LawBiz Management Company
July 2006
Contains the following articles
  1. Does Mandatory Malpractice Insurance Disclosure Really "Protect the Public?"
  2. Should Lawyers Face a Statute of Limitations?
  3. LawBiz® Value: Practicing What We Preach
  4. Managing the Check Deposit Process
June 2006
Contains the following articles
  1. A Matter of Trust in Using Accounts
  2. Do You Provide a Commodity?
  3. What Is "Fair" Compensation?
  4. Blogging Revisited - A Note of Caution on the Tail Wagging the Dog
May 2006
Contains the following articles
  1. Do your bills convey cost - or value?
  2. What doth it profit a lawyer ... ?
  3. When money's the game, do you know your score?
April 2006
Contains the following articles
  1. How Are You Doing?
  2. Here's How to Find Out!
  3. But It's My Practice - Isn't It?
March 2006
Contains the following articles
  1. Selling a Practice Shouldn't Be a Hard Idea to Sell
  2. Selling a Practice Is Now an Easy Step to Undertake
  3. What Do You Really Do As a Lawyer?
  4. Employee of the Month - Food for Thought
February 2006
Contains the following articles
  1. Beware The Barriers That Keep You from Improving
  2. You Can Take It With You - But SHOULD You?
  3. Paper Isn't Obsolete - And Won't Be for a Long Time
January 2006
Contains the following articles
  1. Should YOU Be Nervous? Take This Test to See...
  2. A Nervous Attorney Writes In: "Help me, Ed I'm on the verge of legal insanity!"
  3. Your Banker is Your Partner - If You Pass the Test...
December 2005
Contains the following articles
  1. Five Questions Will Help You Plan for Success in 2006
  2. How to Create Your Profit-Generating Plan in Just a Day!
  3. Herding Cats 101 – How to Get Lawyers to Accept a Plan
November 2005
Contains the following articles
  1. Are Cab Drivers Smarter Than Lawyers?
  2. Does Making Partner Mean Much Today?
  3. Which Files to Keep, and Which to Destroy?
October 2005
Contains the following articles
  1. Is Marketing Dead?
  2. Can Law Firm Administrators Guarantee Job Retention?
  3. Could you REPAIR from a Disaster?
  4. More Examples of the Power of the Internet
  5. Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
September 2005
Contains the following articles
  1. Outsourcing and Referrals: A Question of Fees
  2. The Client Relationship: A Two-Way Street
  3. Closing a Practice: Your Exit Strategy
August 2005
Contains the following articles
  1. Client Development: Plan, or Random Acts of Golf and Lunch?
  2. When Selling a Practice, Don't Look Back – Answers to a Post
  3. Who's on YOUR Team?
June 2005
Contains the following articles
  1. Reflections on Hourly Rates
  2. Blogs Are A Good Tool – But Keep Them in Perspective
  3. Pay Attention to Building Human Capital
January 2005
Contains the following articles
  1. Blog Readership Surged 58 Percent in 2004
  2. Serving Smaller Clients Profitably
November 2004
Contains the following articles
  1. Cashflow
  2. Q & A
May 2004
Contains the following articles
  1. ABA wins their lawsuit against the FTC
  2. How do you achieve excellence in your professional practice?
March 2004
Contains the following article
  1. Electronic Data and Cyber Risk Exclusion
February 2004
Contains the following articles
  1. Where you practice law may be the next question to ask.
  2. Check your credit
  3. One example of breach of fiduciary duty to partners
January 2004
December 2003
November 2003
Contains the following article
  1. I’ve heard of "... an out of body experience ...," but ....
October 2003
Contains the following articles
  1. How to bill for completed work
  2. Attorneys using credit cards to speed collection efforts
September 2003
Contains the following article
  1. More change for the legal profession
August 2003
June 2003
Contains the following article
  1. Tort Reform
May 2003
Contains the following articles
  1. Ask Questions – Learn More Than Ever
  2. You Are Judged on How You Handle a Meeting
  3. Water or Coke?
April 2003
Contains the following articles
  1. Down with Selling – Up with Marketing
  2. Empowerment makes the office work more effectively
Special War Edition March 19, 2003
February 2003
Contains the following article
  1. The Four Stages of Burnout – By Mark Gorkin
January 2003
Contains the following articles
  1. Fee Sharing: O.K. or Not?
  2. Definition of marketing
  3. Stress: Is it good or bad for us?
December 2002
Contains the following articles
  1. Ten Malpractice Traps
  2. Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act again ... or Cyber Insecurity
  3. Beware: California's New Lactation Accommodation Law Is Here!
  4. End of Year Tax Tips: It's Never to Late to Start Planning
New company by former Napster co-founder
November 2002 Issue No. 156a
Clifford Chance sets new standard of "shooting oneself in the foot"
November 2002 Issue No. 156b
Your name as a valuable asset – Reid Trautz
October 2002 Issue No. 155a
Many companies fail in good times – Gene Siciliano
October 2002 Issue No. 155b
We need to get out of our own way
October 2002 Issue No. 155c
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: More requirements for lawyers
September 2002 Issue No. 154a
IRS & Lawyers: The Attorney-Client Privilege at Risk
September 2002 Issue No. 154b
Gramm-Leach - Do you yet know what this is?
July 2002 Issue No. 152
ROI on Coaching Confirmed
May-June 2002 Issue No. 151a
Be Profitable!
May-June 2002 Issue No. 151b
A true story... Lawyer Beware!
April 2002 Issue No. 150a
Fantasy to Finance: Still More Ways to Increase Cash Flow
April 2002 Issue No. 150b
Fantasy to Finance: Ways to Increase Cash Flow
March 2002 Issue No. 149a
Stress Busters
March 2002 Issue No. 149b
A new standard for use of cell phones
February 2002 Issue No. 148a
Fantasy to Finance: Tips on how to increase cash flow
February 2002 Issue No. 148b
Simple keys to great client service
February 2002 Issue No. 148c
Attorney fee agreement requiring arbitration upheld
December 2001 Issue No. 146a
A new standard of realism - What to do on an airplane
December 2001 Issue No. 146b
Tax planning
November 2001 Issue No. 145
Insurance company's request to audit defense bills must be approved by client
October 2001 Issue No. 144a
Advice for a new sole practitioner
October 2001 Issue No. 144b
Attack Will Test How Much We Believe in America
September 2001 Issue No. 143
Do you want to go from low billing to more profitable work?
August 2001 Issue No. 142a
MDPs – Are you or are not a member?
August 2001 Issue No. 142b
Lawyer's Turf vs. Firm's Growth/Success
July 2001 Issue No. 141a
Technology and Law Firm Mergers
July 2001 Issue No. 141b
Palm Pilot ... A customer satisfaction story
June 2001 Issue No. 140a
Ancillary Businesses ... A report from ALA conference
June 2001 Issue No. 140b
Service Power
May 2001 Issue No. 140a
It’s like Counting Pickles ....
May 2001 Issue No. 140b
Managing Yourself Through Change
May 2001 Issue No. 140c
Characteristics of Success
April 2001 Issue No. 139
Four Ways to Get to Market
March 2001 Issue No. 138a
Culture Power: Whine, moan and complain - then contribute! (Ron Kaufman)
March 2001 Issue No. 138b
Payroll and The Internet: One Way Of Reducing Overhead
February 2001 Issue No. 137
Practice Development Coaching: Why Coaching Increases Lawyers Revenues
January 2001 Issue No. 136a
Compensation: Partnering With Your Partners
January 2001 Issue No. 136b
Tax tips for 2000 and 2001
December 2000 Issue No. 135
The Importance of Numbers: Why Attorneys Should Care About Accounting
November 2000 Issue No. 134
Legal Pinch Hitters Thrown A Curve Ball
October 2000 Issue No. 133
Six Things That Drive Clients Crazy
(And What You Can Do to Avoid Them)

September 2000 Issue No. 132
Coaching, a New Phenomenon
August 2000 Issue No. 131a
Exceeding Client Expectations
August 2000 Issue No. 131b
Marketing Database Checklist
August 2000 Issue No. 131c
Productizing Your Practice: Making Service More Tangible and Profitable
July 2000 Issue No. 130
Are You Leaving Your Clients on the Sidelines?
June 2000 Issue No. 129
Reducing Office Expenses
May 2000 Issue No. 128
PARTNER POWER: Who bothers to complain?
April 2000 Issue No. 127
Learning from the Internet: REALLY Using the Web
February 2000 Issue No. 125
CLOSE TO HOME: Bringing Younger Generation into Practice
January 2000 Issue No. 124
A Solution to the Technology Dilemma
December 1999 Issue No. 123
The Right Way to Hire
November 1999 Issue No. 122
CAN WE SURVIVE? Solo and Small-Firm Practitioners Face New Challenges
September 1999 Issue No. 121
When To Say "No": 10 Reasons To Reject Your Clients
August 1999 Issue No. 120
5 Tips For Improving Your Client Relations
July 1999 Issue No. 119
Planning for Disaster
June 1999 Issue No. 118
Communications & Fee Disputes
April 1999 Issue No. 116
Create Your Own Future: An Introduction to Planning
March 1999 Issue No. 114


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