Category Archive for: Alternative Billing Arrangements

Why Marketers Should Care About Legal Project Management

In legal knowledge management and IT circles, the concept of Legal Project Management as a discipline has been a hot topic for the last two years. In marketing circles, … not so much. Amidst client development programs, service offering launches and the support and evaluation of new business opportunities, few law firm marketers seem to…

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What Law Firms Can Learn From LegalZoom.com

TechnoLawyer’s BlawgWorld (free subscription required) had an interesting item a few weeks ago about how LegalZoom is beta testing a concept that would allow it to offer its legal services through small firms under the LegalZoom brand. It’s fraught with ethcial complications, which were outlined by the blog’s author Richard Granat on his eLawyering Blog. From my…

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Taking the First Steps Toward Value-Based Billing

At the center of the discussion about building a value-based law firm is the topic of fee arrangements, specifically the desire to move away from hourly based billing toward alternative fee arrangements. Although firms seem to be taking baby steps toward “value-based” billing models, it is clear –with apologies to Mark Twain—that reports of the…

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The Birth of Law Firm Transitions

In 2007 I left my position as firmwide marketing director at Heller Ehrman. At the time I certainly knew the firm was in trouble, but I never once believed the challenges it faced would be insurmountable. I feel like Pollyanna saying this now, but I believed in Heller’s core values, in the integrity of the…

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