PUNCHLINE: If Social Media matters, then it matters to law firms because everything that matters to society in general must matter to law firms sooner or later. Watch this and make your own decision.
Managing Partners should have 3 priorities as confidence index drops to record low
From the Sacramento Business Journal today:
Law firm confidence index drops to record low
Excerpt:
Confidence in the economy among managing partners at large law firms nationwide hit new lows in the first quarter, according to the latest research from the Citi Private Bank Law Firm Group in New York City.
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Lawcasts by Charon QC
I was honoured today to participate in Charon’s 114th Lawcast which you can hear at the Charon QC blawg or download it from there in iTunes format:
Lawcast 114: Gerry Riskin, founder of Edge International – Law practice in these recessionary times
Access all of Charon’s lawcasts by clicking on Charon’s Lawcast website logo below
Charon QC is intelligent
Cravath Swaine & Moore Killing the Billable Hour?
Evan R. Chesler is a Presiding Partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. He has offered his thoughts via Forbes in a piece called: Kill The Billable Hour. There is no suggestion that he is articulating a new policy for the entire firm but he is clear on his own views and given that he
Will economic hardship mean more client/law-firm fraud?
Perhaps these troubled times will motivate more attempts to defraud law firms – Managing Partners, what have you done to strengthen security lately?
How Optimistic Law Firm Leaders Might React to Wall Street
The image above is the core of the post of internet phenom, Rajesh Setty, in his post today at Life Beyond Code: Optimists and Pessimists – The big difference is..
Couple that with the wisdom of lawyer and legal profession provocateur, Patrick Lamb, in his post today: Silver Lining in Black Economic Cloud? in which
Lehman Liquidation? Merrill Acquisition? Greenspan: “worst economy I’ve ever seen”?
Managing Partners, you may have a disaster plan for fire, perhaps for terrorism – do you have one for the economic train coming off the tracks?
Listen (and watch) what Greenspan said yesterday Sept 14th (50 seconds)
Punchline: You are getting fair warning – are you acting on it? This is not a time
30 Tips for Getting Along With Others
Many of my law firm clients tell me that one of their biggest "people" problems is that some people just don’t work well with others – why? because they don’t always get along.
Enter a brilliant post by Marelisa Fabrega (lawyer/blogger/woman-extraordinaire) called 30 Tips for Getting Along With Others
You might want to get Marelisa’s
Oh my Darling – 60 years!!!
Britain is facing “arguably the worst” economic downturn in 60 years which will be “more profound and long-lasting” than people had expected, Alistair Darling, the chancellor, tells the Guardian today in a story called: Economy at 60-year low, says Darling. And it will get worse
Wall Street returns from vacation season to enter what is
The One Piece Of Advice You Need to Get the Fees You Deserve
RainToday.com created a special report from 12 experts in pricing professional services, including, I am honoured to say, yours truly. You can download my article:
"Think of Services in Terms of Value – Not Rates" by Gerry Riskin (author: The Successful Lawyer)
or download the entire 39 page report including all 12 articles by visiting RainToday.com