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Building a Better Law Practice: 7 Reasons to Specialize

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The Lincoln Legal Papers Project identified over 5,600 cases and nearly 100,000 documents related to Lincoln’s law practice. The paper trail revealed scores of cases involving debt collection, business partnerships, estate settlements, divorce and real estate litigation. Commoditization of Legal Documents.

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Lawyer Networking: Are You a Spoke or a Hub?

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A client executive is relocating and looking for a real estate agent. A neighbor is looking for an estate planning lawyer. Send articles, make introductions, or forward product and service information that is curated for the individual. An Effective Networker Is Able to Fill Myriad Needs, Not Just Provide Legal Services.

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Ethical Considerations for Flat Fee Billing

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QUESTION: I’m a solo practitioner with a general practice handling everything from real estate transactions to family law. While most of my billing comes from traditional hourly rates for matters, I have always used flat fees for certain client demands such as residential real estate transactions and basic estate planning.

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Do Law Firms Need SEO?

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Its a multi-faceted strategy to ensure your firm shows up when someone searches for legal services you offer. Heres what it includes: Keyword research and optimization: Identifying phrases like divorce attorney in [city] or real estate lawyer near me that potential clients are searching for.

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Law Firm Hiring and Retention: Five Strategies to Win the Talent War

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Whether because of the pandemic or for other reasons, many firms have either reduced or eliminated their real estate footprint. Law firms are competing for talent with corporations, law companies and alternative legal service providers (ALSPs), academic institutions, and legal technology product and service companies.

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Legal Staffing Lessons for Today’s Marketplace

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Real estate finance or M&A? One of the most important lessons the legal industry learned from the pandemic was that lawyers and other professionals can work as productively — if not more productively — when they’re away from the office. Need someone with expertise in regulatory compliance? Data privacy litigation?

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Make Money Monday: Take a Page Out of Legal Zoom’s IPO With Subscription

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As the saying goes in real estate, house value is all about location, location, location. To paraphrase from Legal Zoom’s recent IPO filing, legal services value is all about subscription, subscription, subscription.