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Greening Your Law Firm: A Practical Guide to Creating an Environment-Friendly Law Office
Many forward-thinking lawyers want to know how they can reduce their ecological footprint, beyond using a recyle bin. This practical guide will help you on your way to greening your practice, from getting partners and staff onside to easy tips, suggestions and a checklist for implementing environmentally sustainable policies and practices for your law firm.
Podcast: Sabbaticals and Lawyer Retention
Sabbaticals can involve considerable planning and even a change of your firm’s culture. Read on to determine if a sabbatical solution is right for you and your firm: the arguments for and against; the building blocks of a program; the keys to successful implementation; and a sample policy which can serve as a starting point for your firm.
Make Partners Face Up to Each Other at a Firm Retreat
When combining law firms, or seeking greater cohesiveness within any firm, no tool is more effective than face to face communication among lawyers in an all-firm meeting. Retreats bring together partners to confront tough issues, change the firm's direction, focus on a strategic plan, and develop a consensus.
Quick Tips
Business Development in Four Simple Steps
Frustrated with lead or client development? Learn the four simple steps of the business development cycle.
Technology for New Solo or Small-Firm Practice
The six factors that every solo and small-firm lawyer should use when considering new technology.
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More Podcasts 
Cash and Compensation (audio download)
Leveraging the Media (audio download)
Flat-Fee Billing (audio download)
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National Magazine 
Online supplements: ABA TECHSHOW and Going Green.
Online CLE 
The Business of Being a Lawyer
October 7, 2008
Integrating Technology into Your Practice
November 6, 2008
Contact 
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