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Professional Development: Enough Is Enough: Lawyers Should Look Like Lawyers
Marketing the Law Firm
This is the first of two articles about current dress codes in U.S. law firms. This first article sets forth the author’s opinion on the “hot-button” topic. The second article will present reaction and commentary from managing partners and firm leaders across the country.

Managing Practice Group Profitability
Accounting and Financial Planning for Law Firms
Firms everywhere are venturing into various types of reporting and “profit center accounting,” typically based on the performance of individual practice groups and even specific clients. However, they take a variety of approaches to these analyses, and the differences can cause severely different analytic outcomes.

Supreme Court Makes It Easier For Employers to Sue for Retaliation
Employment Law Strategist
In a pair of workplace discrimination cases, the Supreme Court on May 27 made it easier for workers to sue employers who retaliate against them for reporting bias.

Effectively Mitigating The Cost of Data Back-Up
LJN's Legal Tech Newsletter
As any business grows, so does the volume of data that its IT staff must back-up and store. There is no benefit to creating a back-up file of valuable data if this information is not transferred via a secure method and stored in an off-site data storage center with foolproof protection. And with the increase in data that requires storage, off-site storage facilities are in even more demand.

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Ethical Issues of the 21st Century
Why and how a "confidential e-mail" might not be so confidential--and what can ensue when it leaks.

Profits Per Me (PPM)
Lateral partner candidates need to look beyond PPP and focus on what the authors call PPM — "profits per me." Averages are great, but how much of the law firm’s profits can one fairly expect to get?

When and How Can Departing Lawyers Contact Clients?
A primer on ethically contacting clients after a lawyer has left his or her firm.

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