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Business Development: Moving from Resistance to Alignment

Many lawyers—and professionals in general—don’t like business development. They think of it as “unseemly” or unprofessional, judge it as “beneath” them, or just don’t like the idea of it. It’s not what we learned in law school. It doesn’t seem …

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Making the Business Case for Leadership Development

Lawyers in today’s marketplace have to learn new skills.  It is no longer sufficient for them to be solely skillful practitioners or individual contributors to their firms.  They must also be leaders – leaders of their firms, their practice groups, …

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Developing Attorney Skills Necessary to Succeed in a Changing Environment

You are an excellent litigator! Is that the ultimate measure of success in your firm? While your legal knowledge and technical ability is critical, in today’s environment demonstrating other highly desirable skills may very well be the deciding factor in …

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