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The Frustrated In-house Lawyer Blog. About In House Rants. A high profits per partner rank sends an important message to clients: “we’ve got margin to burn.”. Continue reading →. This entry was posted in Legal Marketing. January 2, 2012. Pushing risk across the table. We came across this excellent post. This entry was posted in Legal Bills. September 9, 2010. For the longest time only quantum physicists observing special relativity. See, e.g.,. This entry was posted in Legal Bills. July 26, 2010. So last...
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Client, Be Quiet! | In House Rants
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The Frustrated In-house Lawyer Blog. About In House Rants. Client, Be Quiet! We’re in litigation with a large company. Both sides are represented by careful, competent outside counsel. Both sides have an ongoing business relationship outside of the disputed matter. The other side has just made a mistake. What will we do with this information? Not much. We’ll probably stop granting extensions on discovery responses. This entry was posted in Lawyers. May 5, 2012. Useless Advice →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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April | 2013 | In House Rants
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The Frustrated In-house Lawyer Blog. About In House Rants. Monthly Archives: April 2013. How Not To Get Legal Business. One of our most popular posts is about How to Get Legal Business. Here’s a way how. To get new clients. Continue reading →. This entry was posted in Lawyers. April 20, 2013. About In House Rants. Peter Darling – Business Development. Blog at WordPress.com. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. Follow “In House Rants”. Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.
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Profits per Partner | In House Rants
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The Frustrated In-house Lawyer Blog. About In House Rants. A high profits per partner rank sends an important message to clients: “we’ve got margin to burn.”. Public profitability statements may attract better partners, but clients see this as an opening for a discussion on lowering fees. We have no gripe with success — but tailor your publicity with your (paying) customers in mind. This entry was posted in Legal Marketing. January 2, 2012. Pushing risk across the table. Client, Be Quiet!
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February | 2013 | In House Rants
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The Frustrated In-house Lawyer Blog. About In House Rants. Monthly Archives: February 2013. No Good Deed . . . Here’s an example of a great company (Hyatt Hotels) getting completely hosed for going overboard to help a disabled employee. The employee expresses his gratitude by suing his employer. Thousands of wasted defense dollars later, thank goodness the 7th circuit saw this for what it was: complete nonsense. Read the opinion here. This entry was posted in Lawyers. February 23, 2013.
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No Good Deed . . . | In House Rants
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The Frustrated In-house Lawyer Blog. About In House Rants. No Good Deed . . . Here’s an example of a great company (Hyatt Hotels) getting completely hosed for going overboard to help a disabled employee. The employee expresses his gratitude by suing his employer. Thousands of wasted defense dollars later, thank goodness the 7th circuit saw this for what it was: complete nonsense. Read the opinion here. This entry was posted in Lawyers. February 23, 2013. How Not To Get Legal Business →.
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Zealous non-Advocacy | In House Rants
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The Frustrated In-house Lawyer Blog. About In House Rants. We’ve covered this before. This time, instead of “make them fight for every inch,” it was a variant of “my anatomy is bigger than your anatomy.” Here’s an excerpt from a conference call negotiation over an acquisition agreement. Not verbatim, but pretty close. Our counsel: “I. Get this provision for my clients.”. Their counsel: “I. Give it — or. It It’s not market.”. Our counsel: “Never? You’re not trying hard enough! March 12, 2014. You are comm...
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Zealous Advocacy That Isn’t | In House Rants
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The Frustrated In-house Lawyer Blog. About In House Rants. Zealous Advocacy That Isn’t. So we’ve been in the middle of some (finally) productive m&a activity in the last few months. Like daisies after a rainstorm, the dormant deal lawyers haven’t been far behind. And so are some of their maddening concepts of client service. Besides the usual favorites like ignoring fee estimates (or even. 8220;They need to ask for it. I give up nothing.”. This entry was posted in Lawyers. July 11, 2010. Enter your comme...
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Eliminate Billable Hours from Performance Evaluations | In House Rants
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The Frustrated In-house Lawyer Blog. About In House Rants. Eliminate Billable Hours from Performance Evaluations. We missed this announcement. From Jackson Lewis (a large national employment law firm) in November, 2014, stating that an associate’s billable hours will no longer be taken into account in his or her performance evaluations. We applaud this decision, and hope to see this factor removed from partner-level evaluations (read: profit participation determinations) as well. January 3, 2015. Post wa...
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January | 2015 | In House Rants
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The Frustrated In-house Lawyer Blog. About In House Rants. Monthly Archives: January 2015. Eliminate Billable Hours from Performance Evaluations. We missed this announcement. Individuals in any organization ought to be evaluated on the basis of. Not time spent. Is this harder to do? How should accomplishments be evaluated? Hint: ask your customers who receive the service and are in the best position to evaluate its worth. We’ll answer. We promise. This entry was posted in Management. January 3, 2015.
