Attracting, Advancing and Retaining LGBT Lawyers

The guide highlights challenges LGBT lawyers still face in the workplace and addresses why law firms should encourage diversity and iwwwplement strategies to create welcoming and supportive environments for LGBT lawyers, through initiatives such as diversity committees, formal and informal mentoring, LGBT pro bono initiatives and domestic partner and other same-sex partner benefits

Balance Scorecard for Law Firms

'Firms who adopt the Balanced Scorecard significantly outperform firms that do not adopt the Balanced Scorecard over a three year period'  Advances in Accounting, Crabtree and DeBusk, 2008.

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Business Continuity for Law Firms

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery for Law Firms is a step-by-step guide to devising and implementing an effective business continuity plan for your firm.

This valuable new resource will provide you with the necessary tools to ensure that your firm meets with the requirements of the new Code of Conduct and is equipped to respond quickly and effectively to any business disruption, thereby preventing far-reaching repercussions on your firm’s revenue, incoming work and reputation.

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Business Development Strategies for Partners and Fee Earners

This invaluable new report is a step-by-step guide to ensuring partners and fee earners are fully equipped to deliver new business and maximise the value of existing clients.

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Business Development for Lawyers: Principles and Practice

This report introduces the current thinking on business development (BD) and attempts to put some of the practices into context.

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Business Planning for Law Firms

Many decent businesses have already been ruined by this current sweeping recession, and who knows when it will end? As very few businesses are entirely safe from
the far-reaching downturn in economic activity, complacency or smugness would be daft at this time. Facing up to the reality and tackling it in a straightforward, enterprising manner is probably the only sane course of action.

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Cash Management for Law Firms

Cash forecasts and cash management procedures are crucial for law firms in the current market.

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Competitive Intelligence for Law Firms

Competitive Intelligence for Law Firms is written specifically to help you formalise your approach to CI in the legal sector. It examines in-depth how to gather valuable information and turn it into actionable intelligence in the legal environment while avoiding the legal and ethical pitfalls.

Corporate Social Responsibility

An in-depth exploration of recent developments, best practices and the tools and tactics that are helping forward-thinking firms devise and manage successful strategies that maximise the effectiveness of their CSR activities and guide their future direction.

The Definitive Law Firm Management Guide

Managing Partner's "Definitive Law Firm Management Guide" provides individuals from heads of department to law firm leaders with a handbook that provides quick reference management guidance through issues that affect the day-to-day efficiency and success of your law firm.

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Developing a Profitable Private Client Practice

A comprehensive guide to improving efficiency, profitability, customer service and marketing success within your private client practice

Developing Strategic Client Relationships

Developing Strategic Client Relationships is a new report from Managing Partner that takes thinking on Client Relationship Management away from the IT consultancies to its true position as a crucial business development tool.

Effective E-Disclosure for the Legal Profession

New Managing Partner report E-discovery, E-disclosure is designed specifically to assist you in formalising your firms approach to the disclosure of electronic documents.

Financial Management in the Legal Profession

KM in the Legal Profession examines the enormous challenges facing the legal profession and discusses the issues raised by those pioneering firms that have taken the lead in introducing knowledge-management practices.

Internal Communications for Law Firms

Ark Group’s new report Internal Communications for Law Firms provides information and guidance on developing a successful internal communications strategy. It examines the key challenges and explores the latest thinking on adapting best practice from the corporate world to the rapidly changing legal and professional services market.

KM in the Legal Profession

KM in the Legal Profession examines the enormous challenges facing the legal profession and discusses the issues raised by those pioneering firms that have taken the lead in introducing knowledge-management practices.

Know How in the Legal Profession  (BPS)

Know-how in the Legal Profession examines the enormous challenges facing the legal profession and discusses the issues raised by those pioneering firms that have taken the lead in introducing knowledge-management practices...

Law Firm Remuneration, Reward and Motivation

Motivating and rewarding law firm professionals is a key topic for law firm management. The consequences and opportunity cost of not getting it right is increasingly a decider in meeting both business objectives around client service, and also the ability to manage profitability and margins.

Leadership & Effective Change Management

Managing Partner’s new report, written by Alan Hodgart draws on his extensive knowledge and first hand experience of managing complex change management initiatives in firms of all sizes internationally. It explains in-depth the guiding principles and details a process that will help managers achieve successful and efficient change in their firm...

Leveraging Tacit Knowledge for Competitive Advantage

Specifically researched and written to benefit law firm managers during this challenging time, equipping you with key tools and techniques to capture, manage and transfer knowledge and experience effectively within your firm.

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Making Every Six Minutes Count

TIME IS a lawyer’s commodity – or rather – it is how most lawyers quantify their expertise. How successful you are as a lawyer depends fundamentally on how you use your time. There is direct correlation between how much value you can extract from your time and your profitability. Most lawyers must record how they spend their time on a daily basis and regularly justify their use of time to clients, the court or their employers.

Managing the Evolution of Libraries and Information Services

This in-depth report will provide not only the insights necessary to evolve in changing times, but will also allow you to learn from your peers who are tackling and overcoming the same challenges you face on a day-to-day level.

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Mergers & Alliances in the Legal Profession

In the changing legal landscape the necessity to merge is becoming increasingly commonplace. Mergers & Alliances provides you with the knowledge and expertise to approach this difficult process with clear understanding and confidence …

Money Laundering 2007

Good practice is essential when implementing and maintaining AML procedures. For the individual the law is clear: non-compliance can result in fines and prison sentences. For the firm, transgressions can cost reputation, cash flow and future business. For all involved there is a moral imperative to guard against criminal and terrorist operations. This new publication is an invaluable guide to ensure neither you nor your firm is threatened.

Money Laundering Compliance for Law Firms

Combating money laundering and related terrorist financing is amongst the most significant risk management issues for law firms today, and for those partners or employees with compliance responsibility in particular. The considerable sanctions that can be meted out to firms or even individuals mean that this is an area of compliance you really cannot afford to get wrong.

Negotiating IT Contracts

All too often outsourcing projects spawn horror stories where insufficient attention to the contract results in severe financial losses, failure of the project and the risk of large-scale litigation.

What begins as a streamlining, cost-cutting exercise can quickly become a massive drain on resources in an already difficult economic climate.

Kit Burden's Negotiating IT and Outsourcing Contracts report provides you with a wealth of practical expertise and real-life examples from one of the most respected practitioners in this complex area.

Negotiating Skills for Lawyers

Identifies the key principles of effective negotiation, highlighting the different phases of negotiation and providing invaluable tips and techniques that can be employed to guarantee success.

New Horizons for Lawyers & Legal Services Provider

New Horizons for Lawyers & Legal Services Providers is the result of extensive research conducted on behalf of the UK’s Legal Software Suppliers Association (LSSA). The report provides the most reliable guidance available for lawyers and managers looking to successfully provide better and more competitive legal services during the next 10 years…

Partnership Agreements for Law Firms

In the time that has passed since many partnerships were formed and their agreements settled, new legislation and rules of conduct have come into force that require firms to comply with various management obligations, from requirements under the Solicitors Code of Conduct, to the complex effect of age discrimination law on partnership agreements.

People Management for Law Firms

Developing a strategic approach to HR is critical to a law firm’s success. Yet effectively communicating a strategic approach, and influencing the partnership to engage with it, is not an insignificant challenge…

People Management in an Economic Downturn

Most companies are feeling the pinch of the current economic crisis, and law firms are no exception. There is uncertainty of fee income, costs, client prospects and market developments. Confidence and morale have taken a hit.
To ensure continued prosperity, you need to gain the maximum value from your most expensive asset - people.

Practice Group Leaders

A successful practice group can quickly establish a formidable reputation and at a time of economic downturn, when winning and retaining new business can be critical to survival. There is little doubt that having access to such an extensive and respected source of knowledge and expertise is essential to both existing and potential clients.

Pricing & Profitability for Law Firms

Pricing and Profitability for Law Firms is written by Michael Roch and analyses in depth the various tools, methodologies and strategies available to your law-firm for developing a successful and competitive pricing management system.

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Professional Development Strategies for Law Firms

Professional Development Strategies for Law Firms is a new report published by Ark Group and Managing Partner magazine. Using up-to-date, real-world examples this important new report illustrates how a strategic approach to professional development is underpinning the success of forward-thinking firms and practitioners in the new dynamic legal environment.

Public Sector Information Security

From IT security to information governance, this comprehensive new report helps you to assess risk areas, implement best practice, define roles and responsibilities and prepare for incident management.

Reputation Management for Law Firms

The purpose of this vital new report is to assist you in setting out a road map to stronger, more embedded information security that can exceed current best practice.

The Public Sector Information Security report clearly highlights the areas of risk within your organisation and, in the context of the relevant security standards, examines best practice for avoiding these potential security issues.

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Risk Management in the Legal profession

Managing risk in the modern law firm is about more than simply avoiding negligence claims.

Managing Partner 's new best-practice report on risk management highlights every area of potential risk within your organisation, giving you a clear understanding of how it will affect your law firm and how you need to respond in order to manage risk effectively…

Risk Management in the Legal Profession - 2nd Edition

Managing Partner’s hugely popular report on risk management is now in its’ second edition. Highlighting every area of potential risk within your organisation, this report will give you a clear understanding of how these areas can affect your law firm and how you need to respond in order to manage them effectively.

Risk Management in the Legal Profession 3rd Ed.

Risk management within law firms is a rapidly developing area. In the last year economic changes alone (the term ‘credit crunch' was as yet unheard of when the second edition was written) have served to highlight the need for your risk management strategy to be under constant review.

Social Media for Lawyers: Twitter Edition

Social Media for Lawyers: Twitter Edition - will show you exactly how Twitter can work for your law firm and how it can quickly become an essential business development tool.

Social Networking for the Legal Profession

This report will explore the networking practices and social tools that are currently being adopted by individuals and firms, and provide you wrt takes into account the risk issues surrounding the use of social networking in a legal context and explains the challenges you must overcome to make implementation of a social networking strategy a success.

Strategic IT Planning & Management

Neil Cameron has produced a valuable new publication that not only analyses the steps you need to take to build and maintain an effective IT infrastructure, but looks in detail at the real business benefits of doing so in a way that will make sense in the IT department and the boardroom…

Strategic Lateral Hires for Law Firms

This essential new report will provide you with strategies for finding and retaining the best people for your firm, integrating them successfully and ensuring that they deliver the benefit of their recruitment promise.

Strategic Marketing in the Legal Profession - 2nd Edition

Managing Partner’s hugely popular report on Strategic Marketing is now in its second edition. Completely revised and updated Strategic marketing in the legal profession contains powerful new content

The Art of the Law Firm Merger

With the current economic climate hitting growth potential hard, now may be the time to seriously consider the benefits of a merger.

The Changing Role of Professional Support Lawyers

Increasingly law firms are experiencing greater demands from their clients, be that in the form of value-added services or more flexible know-how advice and support. Now that the Legal Services Act 2007 has worked its way through Parliament, taking a more commercially-orientated approach which is very much client-driven is unarguably the smartest way to proceed.

The Changing Role of the Professional Support Lawyer

Increasingly law firms are experiencing greater demands from their clients, be that in the form of value-added services or more flexible know-how advice and support. Now that the Legal Services Act 2007 has worked its way through Parliament, taking a more commercially-orientated approach which is very much client-driven is unarguably the smartest way to proceed.

The Definitive Law Firm Management Guide

Managing Partner's Definitive Law Firm Management Guide provides individuals from heads of department to law firm leaders with a handbook that provides quick reference management guidance through issues that affect the day-to-day efficiency and success of your law firm.

The Value-Able Law Department

Transition and Succession Planning for Law Firms:
Securing Core Knowledge and Expertise
This Ark Group report examines emerging demographic trends against most recent developments in the legal profession to assess just what challenges lie ahead. It then looks to provide realistic and simple solutions that can be cost-effectively applied in a post-recessionary environment.

Womens Initiatives in Law Firms

Women’s Initiatives is designed to ensure your firm has the best possible advantage in recruiting, retaining and developing female lawyers. Drawing on case studies from top international firms Women’s Initiatives is able to offer a practical guide to developing a complete management strategy.

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Legal marketing has evolved to such an extent, that it is now an essential discipline within the industry. For the legal marketer, the challenges are now more complex and demanding than ever. With this in mind Ark Group and Managing Partner have created Legal Marketing , a magazine dedicated entirely to providing you with regular guidance and insight into successful law-firm marketing.

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The first independent magazine designed specifically for knowledge managers in the legal profession

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In every issue KM Legal magazine finds out which methods are working and which are not so you can benchmark your own strategies against those of your competitors and ensure the long-term success of your KM strategy and, in turn, your law firm .

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The essential guide to strategic practice management.

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Subscribers to Managing Partner are part of one of the most informed communities in their profession because Managing Partner is not just a magazine, but a comprehensive law-firm management resource. PDF order form

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Under the guidance of a distinguished editorial board each issue will feature case studies, insight, commentaries, and expert contributions to highlight how forward thinking firms and individuals have accomplished their objectives, overcome obstacles and barriers they faced, and achieved high levels of success and recognition.

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