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June 2007
Contains the following articles
- Four Lessons That Bear Repeating
- Don't Undercut Yourself When Selling Your Practice
- Should You Give Staff a Bonus?
- New Tools to Help You With "The Business of Law"®
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May 2007
Contains the following articles
- Don't Get Spooked by Ghostwriters
- Is Anybody Listening?
- Should your firm consider contingency fees?
- Does a J.D. need an M.B.A.?
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April 2007
Contains the following articles
- When things don't go "according to plan"
- Ever read your partnership agreement?
- Should your firm consider contingency fees?
- Does a J.D. need an M.B.A.?
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March 2007
Contains the following articles
- Say Goodbye to Goodwill?
- The Conundrum of Associate Pay
- "What's a Web Site Got That I Ain't Got?"
- The Business of Law® Teleseminar Series
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January/February 2007
Contains the following articles
- Is Silence Golden?
- Should Credit Cards Be "Legal"?
- Do You Want To Succeed?
- Are You Keeping Up As Technology Advances?
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December 2006
Contains the following articles
- Should you be forced into retirement?
- Volume discounts revisited.
- A productive cross-border relationship.
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November 2006
Contains the following articles
- Lessons from the road
- Sure we lose money, but we make it up in volume
- Who's in charge here?
- If you had to sell, what is your price?
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October 2006
Contains the following articles
- Were They More Enlightened in the Dark Ages?
- Should You Manage "By the Numbers"?
- Are You on the Same Page With Your Clients?
- What's the Latest from LawBiz® Management Company?
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September 2006
Contains the following articles
- A Strategic Alliance That Benefits You
- Embezzlement - It Can Happen To You
- Accepting Credit Cards Is a Hot Topic for Small Firms and Solos
- To Be More Profitable, Have a Unique Selling Proposition
- Convergence or Collaboration? A Unique Selling Proposition in Action
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August 2006
Contains the following articles
- If You Hang Your Shingle, Will They Come?
- The Cost of a Broken Business Model
- Internet Marketing 101: A Blog Is Not a Web Site
- The Latest News from LawBiz Management Company
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July 2006
Contains the following articles
- Does Mandatory Malpractice Insurance Disclosure Really "Protect the Public?"
- Should Lawyers Face a Statute of Limitations?
- LawBiz® Value: Practicing What We Preach
- Managing the Check Deposit Process
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June 2006
Contains the following articles
- A Matter of Trust in Using Accounts
- Do You Provide a Commodity?
- What Is "Fair" Compensation?
- Blogging Revisited - A Note of Caution on the Tail Wagging the Dog
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May 2006
Contains the following articles
- Do your bills convey cost - or value?
- What doth it profit a lawyer ... ?
- When money's the game, do you know your score?
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April 2006
Contains the following articles
- How Are You Doing?
- Here's How to Find Out!
- But It's My Practice - Isn't It?
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March 2006
Contains the following articles
- Selling a Practice Shouldn't Be a Hard Idea to Sell
- Selling a Practice Is Now an Easy Step to Undertake
- What Do You Really Do As a Lawyer?
- Employee of the Month - Food for Thought
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February 2006
Contains the following articles
- Beware The Barriers That Keep You from Improving
- You Can Take It With You - But SHOULD You?
- Paper Isn't Obsolete - And Won't Be for a Long Time
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January 2006
Contains the following articles
- Should YOU Be Nervous? Take This Test to See...
- A Nervous Attorney Writes In: "Help me, Ed I'm on the verge of legal insanity!"
- Your Banker is Your Partner - If You Pass the Test...
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December 2005
Contains the following articles
- Five Questions Will Help You Plan for Success in 2006
- How to Create Your Profit-Generating Plan in Just a Day!
- Herding Cats 101 – How to Get Lawyers to Accept a Plan
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November 2005
Contains the following articles
- Are Cab Drivers Smarter Than Lawyers?
- Does Making Partner Mean Much Today?
- Which Files to Keep, and Which to Destroy?
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October 2005
Contains the following articles
- Is Marketing Dead?
- Can Law Firm Administrators Guarantee Job Retention?
- Could you REPAIR from a Disaster?
- More Examples of the Power of the Internet
- Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
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September 2005
Contains the following articles
- Outsourcing and Referrals: A Question of Fees
- The Client Relationship: A Two-Way Street
- Closing a Practice: Your Exit Strategy
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August 2005
Contains the following articles
- Client Development: Plan, or Random Acts of Golf and Lunch?
- When Selling a Practice, Don't Look Back – Answers to a Post
- Who's on YOUR Team?
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June 2005
Contains the following articles
- Reflections on Hourly Rates
- Blogs Are A Good Tool – But Keep Them in Perspective
- Pay Attention to Building Human Capital
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January 2005
Contains the following articles
- Blog Readership Surged 58 Percent in 2004
- Serving Smaller Clients Profitably
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November 2004
Contains the following articles
- Cashflow
- Q & A
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May 2004
Contains the following articles
- ABA wins their lawsuit against the FTC
- How do you achieve excellence in your professional practice?
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March 2004
Contains the following article
- Electronic Data and Cyber Risk Exclusion
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February 2004
Contains the following articles
- Where you practice law may be the next question to ask.
- Check your credit
- One example of breach of fiduciary duty to partners
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January 2004
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December 2003
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November 2003
Contains the following article
- I’ve heard of "... an out of body experience ...," but ....
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October 2003
Contains the following articles
- How to bill for completed work
- Attorneys using credit cards to speed collection efforts
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September 2003
Contains the following article
- More change for the legal profession
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August 2003
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June 2003
Contains the following article
- Tort Reform
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May 2003
Contains the following articles
- Ask Questions – Learn More Than Ever
- You Are Judged on How You Handle a Meeting
- Water or Coke?
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April 2003
Contains the following articles
- Down with Selling – Up with Marketing
- Empowerment makes the office work more effectively
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Special War Edition March 19, 2003
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February 2003
Contains the following article
- The Four Stages of Burnout – By Mark Gorkin
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January 2003
Contains the following articles
- Fee Sharing: O.K. or Not?
- Definition of marketing
- Stress: Is it good or bad for us?
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December 2002
Contains the following articles
- Ten Malpractice Traps
- Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act again ... or Cyber Insecurity
- Beware: California's New Lactation Accommodation Law Is Here!
- End of Year Tax Tips: It's Never to Late to Start Planning
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New company by former Napster co-founder
November 2002 Issue No. 156a
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Clifford Chance sets new standard of "shooting oneself in the foot"
November 2002 Issue No. 156b
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Your name as a valuable asset – Reid Trautz
October 2002 Issue No. 155a
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Many companies fail in good times – Gene Siciliano
October 2002 Issue No. 155b
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We need to get out of our own way
October 2002 Issue No. 155c
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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: More requirements for lawyers
September 2002 Issue No. 154a
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IRS & Lawyers: The Attorney-Client Privilege at Risk
September 2002 Issue No. 154b
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Gramm-Leach - Do you yet know what this is?
July 2002 Issue No. 152
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ROI on Coaching Confirmed
May-June 2002 Issue No. 151a
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Be Profitable!
May-June 2002 Issue No. 151b
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A true story... Lawyer Beware!
April 2002 Issue No. 150a
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Fantasy to Finance: Still More Ways to Increase Cash Flow
April 2002 Issue No. 150b
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Fantasy to Finance: Ways to Increase Cash Flow
March 2002 Issue No. 149a
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Stress Busters
March 2002 Issue No. 149b
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A new standard for use of cell phones
February 2002 Issue No. 148a
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Fantasy to Finance: Tips on how to increase cash flow
February 2002 Issue No. 148b
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Simple keys to great client service
February 2002 Issue No. 148c
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Attorney fee agreement requiring arbitration upheld
December 2001 Issue No. 146a
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A new standard of realism - What to do on an airplane
December 2001 Issue No. 146b
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Tax planning
November 2001 Issue No. 145
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Insurance company's request to audit defense bills must be approved by client
October 2001 Issue No. 144a
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Advice for a new sole practitioner
October 2001 Issue No. 144b
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Attack Will Test How Much We Believe in America
September 2001 Issue No. 143
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Do you want to go from low billing to more profitable work?
August 2001 Issue No. 142a
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MDPs – Are you or are not a member?
August 2001 Issue No. 142b
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Lawyer's Turf vs. Firm's Growth/Success
July 2001 Issue No. 141a
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Technology and Law Firm Mergers
July 2001 Issue No. 141b
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Palm Pilot ... A customer satisfaction story
June 2001 Issue No. 140a
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Ancillary Businesses ... A report from ALA conference
June 2001 Issue No. 140b
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Service Power
May 2001 Issue No. 140a
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It’s like Counting Pickles ....
May 2001 Issue No. 140b
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Managing Yourself Through Change
May 2001 Issue No. 140c
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Characteristics of Success
April 2001 Issue No. 139
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Four Ways to Get to Market
March 2001 Issue No. 138a
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Culture Power: Whine, moan and complain - then contribute! (Ron Kaufman)
March 2001 Issue No. 138b
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Payroll and The Internet: One Way Of Reducing Overhead
February 2001 Issue No. 137
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Practice Development Coaching: Why Coaching Increases Lawyers Revenues
January 2001 Issue No. 136a
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Compensation: Partnering With Your Partners
January 2001 Issue No. 136b
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Tax tips for 2000 and 2001
December 2000 Issue No. 135
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The Importance of Numbers: Why Attorneys Should Care About Accounting
November 2000 Issue No. 134
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Legal Pinch Hitters Thrown A Curve Ball
October 2000 Issue No. 133
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Six Things That Drive Clients Crazy
(And What You Can Do to Avoid Them)
September 2000 Issue No. 132
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Coaching, a New Phenomenon
August 2000 Issue No. 131a
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Exceeding Client Expectations
August 2000 Issue No. 131b
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Marketing Database Checklist
August 2000 Issue No. 131c
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Productizing Your Practice: Making Service More Tangible and Profitable
July 2000 Issue No. 130
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Are You Leaving Your Clients on the Sidelines?
June 2000 Issue No. 129
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Reducing Office Expenses
May 2000 Issue No. 128
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PARTNER POWER: Who bothers to complain?
April 2000 Issue No. 127
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Learning from the Internet: REALLY Using the Web
February 2000 Issue No. 125
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CLOSE TO HOME: Bringing Younger Generation into Practice
January 2000 Issue No. 124
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A Solution to the Technology Dilemma
December 1999 Issue No. 123
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The Right Way to Hire
November 1999 Issue No. 122
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CAN WE SURVIVE? Solo and Small-Firm Practitioners Face New Challenges
September 1999 Issue No. 121
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When To Say "No": 10 Reasons To Reject Your Clients
August 1999 Issue No. 120
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5 Tips For Improving Your Client Relations
July 1999 Issue No. 119
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Planning for Disaster
June 1999 Issue No. 118
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Communications & Fee Disputes
April 1999 Issue No. 116
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Create Your Own Future: An Introduction to Planning
March 1999 Issue No. 114
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