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Client Service
- Exceptional Client Service in Law Firms: Tips on Creating a Client Focused Culture
- Exceptional Client Service in Law Firms: Surveying Your Clients
- Exceptional Client Service in Law Firms: Analyzing and Reporting Your Client Satisfaction Survey Results
- Exceptional Client Service in Law Firms: Developing Your Client Service Improvement Plan
- Exceptional Client Service in Law Firms: Tips for Rewarding and Recognizing Employees
Compensation
- Law Firm Partner Compensation – Two Attorney Firm
- Law Firm Partner Compensation: Metrics – What Is Important – What Matters
- Cutting the Pie – Determining Partner Compensation
Financial Management
- Improving Law Firm Profitability – Top Ten Cost Cutting Strategies
- Law Firm Financial Management – Practical Tips & Suggestions – Part I
- NEW! Law Firm Financial Management – Practical Tips & Suggestions – Part II
- NEW!Law Firm Financial Management – Practical Tips and Suggestions – Part III
- Protecting Your Office From Theft
- Calculating Overhead to Determine Profitability
Governance
Human Resources
- Finding, Hiring, and Retaining Top Law Firm Associate Attorneys
- Office Conflict: Are You Coach or Referee
- NEW! Retaining Associate Attorneys – Career Advancement & Mentoring Programs
Insurance Defense Firms
- Trapped in an Insurance Defense Practice: Two Strategic Approaches
- Insurance Defense Law Firms: Strategies and Best Practices
- NEW! Improving Productivity & Profitability in an Insurance Defense Law Firm
Leadership
- Law Firm Management Roles – Skills That an Owner, Managing Partner, or Administrator Needs to Have
- Coach Your Staff Members For Better Performance
- How Effective Leadership Practices Can Help You Acquire and Keep Your Clients
- Seven Communication Styles That Improve Law Firm Performance and Enhance Law Firm Profitability
- The Development of Responsive Management in Law Firms, Corporate and Governmental Law Departments
- The Organizational Life Blood for Law Firm Profitability
- Are Your Law Firm Management Practices on the Verge of Obsolescence
Marketing
- Five Law Firm Marketing Ideas for the New Year
- Cross-Selling Legal and Other Professional Services
- How to Use Secondary Research to Manage Your Firm
- How to Get More Business: Marketing the Small Law Firm
- Developing a Focused Marketing Strategy
- Year End Client Satisfaction Surveys
- Image: An Essential Ingredient for Lawyer Success During These Changing Times
- NEW! Law Firm Marketing – Mining and Minding Your Referral Base and Network
Partnership
- Law Firm Partnership – Implementing a Lawyer Career Advancement Program (Partner Track)
- Law Firm Partner Relations
- Bringing in New Law Firm Partners
- Law Firm Management – Characteristics of Successful Law Firms – Basic Building Blocks
Strategy
- Starting – Building – Managing A Law Firm
- Survival and Best Practices For a Personal Injury Plaintiff Law Firm
- How to Reinvent Your Law Practice in Order to Prosper in the 21st Century
- Using a Retreat to Plan for the Next Decade
- Survival in Turbulent Times: Using a Business Plan to Focus the Small Law Firm
- Reinventing Your Law Practice: 25 Tips on Implementing Change
- Redefining the Future with MDP’s
- A Roadmap for Changing Your Firm’s Future: The Case of a Struggling Law Firm
- Setting The Stage For Success: Law Firm Implements Behavioral Changes And Reinvents Itself For Another Century In Practice
- Solo But Not Alone
- Nine Compelling Reasons For Lawyers to Practice Global Thinking
Succession/Exit Strategies
- Law Firm Succession/Exit Strategies – Small Firm Merger Case Study
- Law Firm Succession/Exit Strategies – Transition Client Relationships & Management Roles
- Law Firm Succession/Exit Strategies – Impact of Firm Size
- Law Firm Succession/Exit Strategies – Coming to Terms with Aging
- Law Firm Succession/Exit Strategies: Ideas for Getting Started
- Law Firm Succession/Exit Strategies: Valuing the Firm
- Law Firm Succession/Exit Strategies – Practice Continuation Arrangements
- NEW! Law Firm Succession/Exit Strategies – Succession & Transition Plan
- NEW! Law Firm Succession/Exit Strategies – Small Law Firm Merger
- NEW! Law Firm Succession & Exit Strategies – Implementation of the Strategies and Plan – A Case Study
Technology
- Using Document Management Software to Leverage Work Product
- Using The Computer As A Marketing Tool
- Planning For Computerized Litigation Document Management
Work Life Balance
- Lawyers Lives in Balance: Developing Your Plan And Tips For Staying Energized & Productive
- Lawyers Lives in Balance: Tips for Managing Stress
- Women Lawyers Lives in Balance: Ideas for Managing Personal Lives and Professional Careers
Mergers
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- Tim Henkel
Henkel & Cohen, PA