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How Attorneys Can Use Legal Data for Business Development and Intelligence

By Josh Blandi, CEO, Unicourt Legal data is an equalizing force giving lawyers the ability to sharpen their business development efforts and hone their business intelligence gathering, regardless of the…
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3rd Anniversary Checklist

By Camille Stell Congratulations to us! Lawyers Mutual Consulting & Services is celebrating three years in business. Exactly half of our time in business has been working during a pandemic.…
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Should You Consider Buying a Law Firm?

By Camille Stell Have you ever considered buying a law firm? Based on my personal experience, most lawyers have not thought about it. If the idea has crossed your mind,…
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Strategic Networking: The More the Merrier

Each summer, Lawyers Mutual participates in the North Carolina Bar Association Minorities in the Profession 1L Summer Associate Program. This summer we have been fortunate to have Shawn Singleton from…
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What is the Value of My Law Practice?

Every law practice has value, including yours. That value is real – as in dollars and cents real – and marketable. And it may be significantly higher than you think.…
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3 Issues Keeping Lawyers Up at Night

The battle for talent continues to intensify. Join us on Thursday, August 19 at noon for a Leading Law Roundtable via Zoom to discuss recruiting, retention and compensation, the trifecta of strategic questions…
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Ten Coaching Questions on the Path from Languishing to Flourishing

By Allison Wolf Languishing. Thanks to Adam Grant’s May 2020 article in the New York Times, we now have a word to describe this malaise many of us are experiencing:…
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Walden Pond Sabbatical

By Bruce L. Kaplan  Dreams are the touchstones of our character  Simplify simplify simplify  Live deliberately,  —Henry David Thoreau  WHY I have used secured leave and good timing to take…
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Are You Getting Paid Fairly? A Primer

by Ian Hu for Slaw.ca and reproduced with permission One way to look at whether your salary is fair is to understand how a law firm calculates your value. We’re…
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Are Your Financially Prepared for Retirement?

By Camille Stell Are you financially ready for a long Life After Law? You may live a lot longer than you think and you need to be planning now for…
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What Law Firms Should Focus on Next

By Heather Gray-Grant Despite hiccups on vaccine receipt and distribution, we now know that by the end of the year, there’s a very good chance we’ll all be back to…
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Is the Pandemic Shifting Retirement Patterns?

When you reach a certain age, retirement is on everyone’s mind. And the age varies. Several of my schoolteacher friends reached retirement age a couple of years ago. Retirement was…
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