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Where do you find the time to incorporate pro bono work into your already busy practice? Does pro bono make good business sense? Read on to gain perspectives on pro bono you might not have considered before.

Finding the right partner compensation system can be the key to helping a law firm reach its strategic objectives.

Prepare to approach the marketing, production and finance functions of the business of law differently as technology fundamentally reshapes management concerns and client needs.

From the archives: Getting noticed is half the battle when it comes to promoting a business. But throwing money at a state-of-the-art website isn’t enough.

What's the ideal arrangement for compensating a managing partner? Should he or she be paid a flat stipend, over and above what they might have earned based on the fruits of their practice? These questions are put to a panel of experienced firm leaders.

How innovative lawyers are shaking up the business model to thrive in the information age.

National spoke to four recruiters from top law firms across the country to learn how they assess job candidates a long with tips on how to succeed in the big leagues.

Many law students talk about making a difference in the world through law, but it’s not easy to connect with the right opportunities. Three lawyers offer advice on staying focused, overcoming obstacles and being ready when opportunity knocks

The purchase of an interest in a law firm should result in an expected benefit stream. Here’s how to apply the business valuation technique to the job of valuing a law firm.

Without a successor type lawyer in place, the retirement of the founder will challenge the very existence of the firm. In this respect, every solo practitioner or small firm has a succession issue.

The author of Reinventing Professional Services: Building Your Business in the Digital Marketplace offers creative yet practical advice on putting social media to work for you.

Now more than ever, proving chain of custody matters. In the words of one civil litigation expert in Toronto: “You need to show what happened before or after the evidence was created, to establish that it means what you say it means.”

Co-managing partners have become more common as law firms struggle to find partners who aspire to be full-time managers. Yet embracing shared leadership brings its own challenges.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Here are thoughts on how to follow up on a client survey to truly get the benefits.

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...