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Are lawyers really worthy that money
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| Business professionals, lawyers, accountants, engineers and others are sometimes viewed as a necessary evil. Each profession has offered a lot of material for jokes and comedians over the years. We have the bottom dwelling lawyers, the charisma by pass, cardigan wearing accountants and the geeky computer dorks to name a few. As well as jokes these professions have something else in common. It is the ability to charge relatively high fees for their services. Do they prtovide the value to justify these fees. |
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10 Leadership Tips for Lawyers
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| Even if you don’t have your own firm or if you are not a partner, you can be a leader of your team or even yourself. All lawyers need a vision, mission, goals and business plan/marketing plan to be successful.Not a lawyer? These statements are applicable to anyone in the business world.
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10 Tips To Make Your Networking More Rewarding
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| Good relationships are essential to any career. It
doesn’t matter if you have your own business or work for someone else
that network is critical. Lawyers, solo professionals freelancers, and
sales professionals must constantly network and generate new business.
Your network will be invaluable when you want to find a new job. |
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Start Your Own Business with the Help of Freelancing Lawyers and Accountants
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| Do you want to start your own business but feel intimidated by the idea? Plenty of people feel this way, whether the business is online or otherwise. When I lost everything back in 2007 and had to start over, it would have been easy to just “throw in the towel.” However, I fortunately turned to making money on the Internet. |
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Freelancing Lawyers and Accountants Are the Start-Up’s Friend
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| Often time people feel intimidated by the idea of starting up their own business, whether it’s online or otherwise. When I lost everything back in 2007 and had to start over, it would have been easy to just “throw in the towel.” However, I fortunately turned to making money on the Internet. |
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Steve Case Quotes
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Lesson #4: Learning by Doing is the Better Way
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| “[I] learned it by doing it,” says Kelleher, “and I was scared to death.” |
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Keep Looking Up and Take Back Our Liberties
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| Christians are just sick and tired of turning the other cheek while our courts strip us of all our rights. Our parents and grandparents taught us to pray before eating, to pray before we go to sleep. Our Bible tells us to pray without ceasing. Now a handful of people and their lawyers are telling us to cease praying. |
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Careful Consideration and Analysis
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| Most organizations view business development opportunities as a threat. |
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The Abundant Marketing Mindset
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| It seems like every time I conduct a marketing workshop for small business owners about half the crowd admits that they don't really like marketing - it makes them feel like they are self-promoting. This mindset is particularly common among professional services providers. (Yes, doctors, lawyers, and accountants, I'm talking about you.) |
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How to Say No
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| Learning how to say no is crucial. We are faced with a barrage of requests each and every day - for time, for money, and for favors. We have to learn to say no most of the time, occasionally to some worthy causes and some great opportunities. |
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100 Ways to Succeed #78
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| Speak Not Ill of Thine Competitors |
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The Top Ten (Sixteen) Lies of Lawyers
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| Like CEOs, marketers, engineers, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists, lawyers tell their own specialized tales. Most of my experience is with lawyers who do work for tech entrepreneurs, so this is my focus. |
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Feld-Weiser One-on-One: Feld on Work-Life Balance
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| On Wednesday, June 10th, 6:00-7:00pm in the Wittemyer Courtroom, Wolf Law Building at CU Boulder I'm doing an interview with Phil Weiser titled Feld on Work-Life Balance. I've written extensively about Work-Life Balance on this blog and have a wide range of opinions and perspectives on it. Phil's intro the event sets it up nicely. |
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10 Mistakes Lawyers Make When Growing Their Practices
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| Since law schools don’t teach lawyers how to build a practice, many lawyers have built their practices by learning the basics on their own. Often however their practice reaches a plateau and they are not able to grow their revenue. The following is a list of common mistakes these lawyers make. Even one of these mistakes will interfere with the success and growth of a practice. |
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Values The Foundation of Your Business
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| A recent Boston Globe Magazine article (1/11/04) entitled Ballistic to Holistic written by Elaine McArdle describes a lawyer who initially envisioned herself in “a noble profession that would improve people’s lives.” While this lawyer wanted to practice a kind of law that sought justice and reasonable resolutions to conflict what she saw was a profession with lawyers intent on destroying their opponents by any means-hardly a way to improve anyone’s life and certainly not hers.
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Getting in Shape
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| Why Lawyers Should Eat Bananas by Simon Tupman is a book that caught my eye both because of its unusual title and because I coach lawyers who are starting or growing their practices. The book cover says it gives “Inspirational Ideas for Lawyers Wanting More Out of Life”
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The Cost of Being a Perfectionist or a Workaholic for Attorneys
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| Are you a perfectionist or a workaholic? Many law firms and other businesses encourage this. Lawyers and other professionals often brag about it. What is it costing the business and the individual. |
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Career Coaching Case Study: Client Creates Work With Purpose and Passion
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| We are all trying to understand and cope with the enormous changes in our work and personal lives. Mostly we react in a positive and productive manner. However, many people are describing their lives as so busy, working so many hours, trying to balance work and personal lives that we often feel physically and emotionally exhausted.
I work as a consulting psychologist and executive/career coach specializing in helping leaders and lawyers with work- related problems. Let me tell you a brief story about a company leader I helped with a career transition.
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Stressed Out Lawyers - Mending Body, Mind & Soul
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| In the demanding world lawyers face, stress resilience is an essential skill. Managing stress allows you to excel in the workplace while maintaining a well-balanced, healthy lifestyle. |
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How Do You Pick the Perfect Domain Name?
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| Picking the perfect domain name is very important in a crowded internet where it get’s more and more difficult to get yourself noticed. Getting to the top or even into the major search engines is challenging and then there is the problem of establishing your brand. No wonder it is difficult to find that perfect domain name. So how do you? |
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Career Development Monty Python Style
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| So what do a doctor, lawyer, historian, graphic artist, English teacher, and script writer have in common? They are the original professions of the members of Monty Python’s Flying Circus comedy team! |
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Competitive legal landscape to change forever?
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| The legal landscape is changing in Australia. Don't wait until it is too late to consider what you need to do to embrace those changes. |
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Business New Year's Commitments – For Leaders and Lawyers
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| With another year quickly coming to an end, I started thinking about New Year's Resolutions and what enlightened business owners and solo entrepreneurs can resolve to change and be more successful next year. The following are my top twelve tips in no particular order to help you and your business thrive in the New Year. |
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If You Want To Be Happy and Successful Don't Become A Lawyer
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| No wonder lawyers have the highest incidence of depression among professions and are the most inclined to resort to drugs and alcohol to manage stress. According to this survey, the majority of lawyers have a warped view as to what makes you successful... |
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It’s been a month with no sales! Do I sack my sales manager?
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| A sales manager, or more appropriately, 'sales leader' is a key leadership role in any sales driven organisation. That means sacking your sales leader, more often than not, also means bleeding intellectual property (IP) to your key competitors. Moreover, an emotionally charged ex-sales leader may even take some of your sales team and clients with them. Ouch!
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Advertising Copywriting 101
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| Copywriting is the single most important aspect of advertising. We must know what our market wants before we give it to them. |
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Discover the Benefits from the Most Ignored Resource
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| My observations, for the last ten years, on what resources are available for personal and professional growth, and how people use them have led to one key conclusion. To a great extend, people don't succeed because they ignore the most available and accessible resource-other people's experience.
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The Sales Dance: You've Had Lunch, Now What?
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| Did you meet an interesting individual at the last networking lunch? Or, maybe you were recently introduced to someone at a neighbor’s party who could very well be a viable prospect. In these networking-focused times, you’re probably introduced to lots of people at a variety of formal networking events, informal get-togethers, and through online sources.
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Business Ethics and Values Are Not Here One Day and Gone the Next
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| Do you ever feel that ethical behaviors in business are here today and gone tomorrow? Read how you can truly be ethical and thereby stand out, not in, the crowded marketplace. |
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Virtually legal
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| More and more companies are setting up virtually and using technology to cut overheads and offer more flexible working conditions to employees. They include lawyers. Mandy Garner looks at one virtual law firm. |
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Search Engine Optimization: How to Dominate a Niche Market in Less than a Month
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| Do You Want to Rank First on Google for Your Niche Business in Less than One Month? Then this is the Article You Don't Want to Miss for Anything in the World.
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Selling to China Is An Uphill Battle But You Can Succeed
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| Consultant Dr. James Chan offers seven secrets to selling American-made products and services to China. |
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Fees- Calculating Charge Out Rates and Time Based Fees
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| When it comes to setting the fees (price) for your services there are some important factors to consider. One of the main strategic decisions is to decide whether you will charge based on hourly/daily rates (time-based), or charge based on results achieved (value-based). |
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18 Practical Tips on Working With the Chinese
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| James Chan offers 18 practical tips on making friends and building better business relationships in China. |
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How Experts Are Born
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| Let’s talk about becoming an expert. First of all, what is an expert and why is it important for you?
As an Entrepreneur, positioning yourself as an Expert allows you to become a big fish in a small pond, you don’t need to be known all over the world to make money, you just need to be known in your specific niche. Think of it like cream rising to the top, people begin to know and trust the real estate agent that has a column in the newspaper and was interviewed on TV, or has a real estate TV Show in their local area. Often times, increasing your status to being the Expert in your specific field, can earn you 100,000 to over 1,000,000 in products and services sold annually. Customers come to you because you’ve earned the reputation as being the “best” in your field.
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Pitching to Win and Winning that Pitch
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| You’ve got a viable product, you know that this large company would be very interested in it – you are now entering a high risk area – pitching your product to a much larger company. |
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Entrepreneurs – What’s The Biggest Mistake You Can Ever Make With Your Business?
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| Many entrepreneurs start up service companies thinking that they are going to be plumbers, lawyers, dentists, realtors etc. Or they decide to sell coffee, candy or clothes. They all make the same mistake – successful businesses do not sell services or goods – they are marketing companies. Marketing is the engine that drives your business! |
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Entrepreneurs – How Do You Find A Lawyer For Your Company?
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| Do you need a lawyer to help you in establishing your new company, to expand it – or even worse because you have legal problems? It’s difficult isn’t it? |
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How Crunching Key Sales Numbers Will Increase Sales & Help You Sell Smarter not Harder
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| In sales, it is the simple actions that generate the greatest results. If your desire is to increase sales, then take some time to crunch your key sales numbers. Taking this action allows you to work smarter not harder. So what are those key sales number?
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Is Franchising Right for Me?
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| Before setting up a plan for your franchise business, you have to truly ask yourself if it’s the correct choice for you or will it end up being a regrettable career move? |
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Help Your Clients Be Heroes
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| Don’t deprive your clients of the opportunity to be heroes. Ask them to introduce you to people you can help in the same way you’re helping them. |
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Don't Try to be Everything to Everyone . . .
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| Being a specialist not only attracts your ideal client, it actually attracts people from other walks of life, as well. |
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Start with the End in Mind
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| How to Balance Your Business for Success! |
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Agency
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| A door is not responsible if it swings and hits you in the nose. Neither is the hand of the guy who punched you.
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Addressing The Risks of Doing Business Online
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| In order to properly assess the risks of certain business activities online, it is useful to break ecommerce down to six basic business objectives: Advertising, Indirect Sales, Online Delivery, Online Sales combined with payment processing and traditional delivery, Online Sales combined with payment processing and Online Delivery and lastly Dialogue or Interactive Services. This article, part 1 of 2 will examine the issues surrounding the first two business objectives, Advertising and Indirect Sales. |
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Finance tips for Lawyers
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| 25 tips for the Lawyer's Bottom Line.
Some are lawyer specific. Most will work for any business. |
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Taking Your Business' Marketing In Your Own Hands – and Winning
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| At a time when Washington and Wall Street seem to have little or no connection with Main Street Wall Street seems to do fine no matter how much of the rest of the country is suffering, but it’s the rest of the country that matters when it comes to growing the economy. It’s more important than ever for you to reach your target market and build a bridge between you and your customers. While those around you are trying to figure out what to do, or are looking at Washington or Wall Street for answers, you can take your business’s marketing matters in your own hands – and soar! |
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Risk Management for Law Firms
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| Have you planned an exit strategy for you? |
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LinkedIn Marketing Tips For Law Firms - How Lawyers Can Attract and Retain More Clients Using LinkedIn
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| Ten different opportunities attorneys should take advantage of; to attract and retain more clients using LinkedIn...
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How to Generate New Business Telling People What You Do
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| What do you tell people when asked what you do?
Many small business owners and independent professionals repeatedly miss great opportunities to generate new business or develop leads by answering the "what do you do?" question with a poorly crafted or completely unplanned answer. If your answer does not regularly start a conversation about your business you need to change your answer. |
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The 3 Secrets to becoming a Sales SUPERSTAR
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| There are 3 secrets all salespeople must know to become a SUPERSTAR in the new economy. Sean Moffett breaks them down. |
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Other lawyers Related Articles
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Getting in Shape
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| Why Lawyers Should Eat Bananas by Simon Tupman is a book that caught my eye both because of its unusual title and because I coach lawyers who are starting or growing their practices. The book cover says it gives “Inspirational Ideas for Lawyers Wanting More Out of Life”
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The Top Ten (Sixteen) Lies of Lawyers
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| Like CEOs, marketers, engineers, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists, lawyers tell their own specialized tales. Most of my experience is with lawyers who do work for tech entrepreneurs, so this is my focus. |
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Ethical Dimensions of Business Immigration Practice
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| Immigration lawyers are confronted frequently by ethical issues, particularly in the context of representing employer and employee clients in business immigration matters that involve dual representation. As immigration lawyers progress into the broader role of advising companies on compliance issues, a whole host of new ethical issues arise. This is especially true where the lawyer has consulted with employees at the request of the employer and learned adverse information which could be damaging to the employer. |
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Are lawyers really worthy that money
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| Business professionals, lawyers, accountants, engineers and others are sometimes viewed as a necessary evil. Each profession has offered a lot of material for jokes and comedians over the years. We have the bottom dwelling lawyers, the charisma by pass, cardigan wearing accountants and the geeky computer dorks to name a few. As well as jokes these professions have something else in common. It is the ability to charge relatively high fees for their services. Do they prtovide the value to justify these fees. |
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If You Want To Be Happy and Successful Don't Become A Lawyer
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| No wonder lawyers have the highest incidence of depression among professions and are the most inclined to resort to drugs and alcohol to manage stress. According to this survey, the majority of lawyers have a warped view as to what makes you successful... |
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10 Questions You Must Never Forget to Ask Before You Sign Up For a Legal Services Plan
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| When my employer downsized and I first wanted to start my business, I wanted to consult a lawyer, because I had several questions coming up in my mind. I approached my friends, relatives and searched in the internet to locate a lawyer to answer my questions. I realized that my questions will have to be answered by lawyers in different areas of law. It was not feasible for me to hire each of those lawyers and seek consultation. It took me several hours of time and effort to come up with a solution. Based on my research, I realized that having a legal services team would serve my purpose, even if I had to pre-pay a membership fee. Have you ever felt this way? If you answered yes, then you must ask yourself the following ten questions while researching to hire your Legal services team. |
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10 Mistakes Lawyers Make When Growing Their Practices
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| Since law schools don’t teach lawyers how to build a practice, many lawyers have built their practices by learning the basics on their own. Often however their practice reaches a plateau and they are not able to grow their revenue. The following is a list of common mistakes these lawyers make. Even one of these mistakes will interfere with the success and growth of a practice. |
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Happiness is an Option for Lawyers - Creating Success and Fulfillment in Work and Life
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| In the increasingly demanding world lawyers face; many lawyers desire to achieve professional success, a fulfilling life, and true happiness. However, achieving both their personal and professional goals sometimes proves to be very difficult. Many lawyers report being unhappy with the choices they have made and desire a different future. |
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Practical Practice Management for Law Firms (Part One)
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| Most lawyers are good at understanding and interpreting the law. What they are not good at, in many cases, is running a business. A law practice is just another business and needs to be run as such.
Why don't some lawyers get this? |
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PROPERTY LIFE LESSONS 3 – Part 2
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| Real Estate Contracts and Lawyers |
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