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CBA PracticeLink: Creative Career Breaks
Interested in taking a break from your law practice, but not from the intellectual stimulation associated with the law? There are several ways you can enrich your skills and experience while taking time away from your practice.
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The Google-friendly lawyer
More legal practitioners are using the internet giant's business tools, says the author of a new book on how Google know-how can benefit lawyers.
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Why happy employees are good for business
Vancouver law firm Bull, Housser and Tupper has once again been recognized for its attention to the ?people? side of the business. Managing partner Herb Isherwood and human resources manager Ann Johnston spoke to PracticeLink about how BH and T keeps employees engaged and why it's so important.
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IFRS and private enterprises: The accounting language of international business is changing. Are your clients ready?
Most public companies are well on their way to converting to International Financial Reporting Standards. The situation is a little more complicated for private enterprises, which can choose between IFRS and the New Canadian GAAP. Here is what private business owners must understand about their options.
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Law Firm Lessons of the Great Recession
Whatever else can be said about the economic downturn of the past two years, it is unquestioned that law firms, like every other sector of the economy, have learned (or more likely re-learned) they cannot ignore the fundamental rules of business.
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A Little Something in Writing to Remember It By
Consider preparing printed material for the client to take away with them, material that will help them understand what is going on. "Hand-holders" are tangible symbols of the help that?s being given, of the work that has been and will be done on the client?s behalf.
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50 Essential Business Tips for Every Lawyer
You?re not just practising law, you?re running a business. Try some of these simple tips and you?ll not only keep clients and staff happy, you?ll boost your practice?s bottom line.
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Self-Assessment: Exploring an Alternative Career
Do you find yourself daydreaming about teaching yoga, delivering mail, doing anything but practising law? Maybe you?re in the wrong field. Or maybe you just need a change of scenery. Here?s how to perform a thorough self-assessment to determine if law is the right career for you.
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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.
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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.
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Following Up on Client Feedback: The Key to the Survey Process
Here are thoughts on how to follow up on a client survey to truly get the benefits.
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How Lawyers Lose Big Clients?and Advice on How to Keep Yours
After 17 years in the trenches as a litigator with a large firm, I moved to an in-house role two years ago and the transition to ?client? was surprisingly difficult. Have I fired lawyers in the past two years? Yep. Have I been tempted to fire others? Absolutely...
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Top ten Mistakes Lawyers Make With Social Media
Lawyers and law firms are rapidly adopting social media to market themselves and connect with peers. These are new tools. We are all trying to figure out how to use them. Just to make it more difficult, the tools themselves are rapidly evolving as we are learning how to use them.
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What Are You Doing To Raise Your Visibility?
With this economy, it would not be unusual to feel that your world has been turned upside down and your sunny disposition transformed into that of a neurotic alley cat...
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