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Pfizer Reaches Deal With Some Celebrex Users: Report: NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc PFE has reached tentative deals with some patients who claim to have suffered heart attacks and strokes from taking the company's Celebrex and Bextra pain medicines, the Wall Street Journal said on Friday, citing plaintiff...; Tags: Pfizer Inc., law firm, attorney, patient, pending litigation, lawyer, New York, advisor, litigation, Thomson Reuters Corp., benefit; News items 2008-05-02
Inter-Organizational Knowledge Management: A Comparison of Law Firms in Norway and Australia: Law firms represent an industry that seems very well suited to knowledge management investigation. Law firms are knowledge intensive, and the use of advanced technology may well transform these organizations in the future. This paper reports results from a survey of Norwegian law firms on the use of information technology...; Tags: Strategy, Litigation, Gale Group, law firm, knowledge management, knowledge, Norway, Australia, survey, word-processing, database, information technology, industry, e-mail, software; White papers
How an Immigration Law Firm Is Outsourcing Back Office Processes: This is a case study of a law firm, which is outsourcing its paralegal and clerical processes. These processes include: completing immigration forms, drafting employment letters and collecting personal data and information required to complete the forms. Outsourcing was necessary to grow the practice without increasing fixed overhead costs.; Tags: Litigation, law firm, outsourcing, overhead cost; Case studies
Approaches To Ethical Decision Making: Business owners often face difficult ethical dilemmas, such as whether to cut corners on quality to meet a deadline or whether to lay off workers to enhance profits. A current ethical debate concerns the use of extremely low-wage foreign workers, especially in the garment industry. In our complex global business...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, decision-making, worker, industry; White papers 2007-12-01
Law Firm Administrator Job Description: The Law Firm Administrator job description template includes the following job summary: To carry out all the business and administrative functions of the firm, including human resources management, financial management, information systems, and facilities management. Additional information available includes essential job functions, additional responsibilities, and education and experience requirements.; Tags: Litigation, Recruitment & Selection, Financial accounting, law firm, HRM, financial management, information system, job, Human Resources, financial; Tools & templates 2007-09-09

Book Short: Anonymous Lawyer: Anonymous Lawyer by Jeremy Blachman is simply hilarious. Its a satirical novel written in the form of blog entries and internal emails by a hiring partner at a big LA law firm. A must-read for anyone in a law firm or considering that career path. Heres the fake law firms...; Tags: Litigation, Ben Casnocha, stapler, law firm; Blog posts 2007-01-27
Law Firm Seamlessly Manages Nationwide Deployment: Holland & Knight LLP is one of the 15 largest law firms in the world, dating back to the 1800s. More than 1,200 lawyers and professionals contribute to their one firm structure, with five practice sections litigation, government, business, real estate and private wealth services. Holland and Knight wanted to...; Tags: Handhelds, law firm, litigation, real estate, handheld, training, team; Case studies 2005-02-22
What You Believe Really Can Hurt You: How Self-Delusion Torpedoes Strategic Thinking: The legal profession is beset by misconceptions and self-delusions. These pertain to the strategies and the moves adopted by the law firms. Such misconceptions are hampering the progress of the modern-day law firm and preventing it from achieving the status of a ‘great’ organization. A plethora of myths exists among...; Tags: Litigation, Aspen Technology Inc., strategic thinking, law firm, misconception, strategy; White papers 2004-05-01
New Effort On Talent Management: In the contemporary business era, law firms are increasingly being sensitive to adopting talent management techniques. These techniques are seen as an effective tool to cultivate and manage talent within the law departments. The law departments are evolving innovative talent management initiatives to enhance the effectiveness of team performance. The...; Tags: Workforce management, Litigation, American Lawyer Media Inc., talent management, talent, law firm, technique, team, tool; White papers 2003-08-01
Corporate Governance: Time For A Check Up: The board of Community First Bankshares has always prided itself on being proactive, something attributable to the experience level of its directors. Several have done stints as top executives with other financial services companies; most have served on other boards. One has new exchange rules, Sarbanes-Oxley, the SEC, and then...; Tags: Litigation, Financial services, Financial Planning, Board Member Inc., law firm, bank, board, corporate governance, financial service, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, financial, industry; White papers 2003-07-01
Avoiding Extinction In A Turbulent Market: Financial Hygiene Perils: From the executive summary: ‘While strong law firms have experienced an exceptional level of prosperity and growth in a consolidating market, continued expansion and ever increasing profitability are not the only potential destinies for law firms today. As the high profile, closures of long established firms demonstrate in recent years...; Tags: Litigation, Professional development, American Lawyer Media Inc., law firm, career, financial; White papers 2003-06-04
US Law Firms and the international market for corporate control: This paper estimates the effects of several American law firms' international networks of offices on the total value of overseas mergers and acquisitions (M&A) by US corporations. Nowadays many nations can review proposed mergers and US law firms help clients overcome such regulatory hurdles, effectively greasing the market for corporate...; Tags: Litigation, Mergers & Acquisitions, law firm, M&A, merger, network; White papers 2003-04-29
Do All Networks Facilitate International Commerce? US Law Firms and the International Market for Corporate Control: This paper estimates the effects of several American law firms' international networks of offices on the total value of overseas mergers and acquisitions (M&A) by US corporations. Nowadays many nations can review proposed mergers and US law firms help clients overcome such regulatory hurdles, effectively greasing the market for corporate...; Tags: Litigation, Mergers & Acquisitions, National Bureau of Economic Research, law firm, M&A, merger, network; White papers 2003-04-01
Back To Basics: The times of economic slowdown are the ideal times for law firms to take stock of prevailing conditions and prepare for future challenges. It is the perfect occasion for law firms to assess, evaluate, and overhaul their strategies and business activities for achieving increased performance and attracting new clients. There...; Tags: Litigation, Performance management, American Lawyer Media Inc., law firm, performance, strategy, stock; White papers 2003-04-01
High Stakes: The Growing Challenge Of Law Firm Risk Management: Modern-day law firm leaders and managers are facing the increased risk of significant liabilities. Law firms are becoming increasingly prone to such risks. In recent years, several corporate scandals have seen a slew of actions being filed against lawyers. These strengthen the premise that law firms are vulnerable to the...; Tags: Litigation, Strategy, American Lawyer Media Inc., law firm, risk management, risk, leader; White papers 2003-02-11
Anatomy Of A Turnaround Or How To Save Your Law Firm: From the executive summary: ‘The roots of a firm’s decline are usually long. A firm does not fall from excellence to mediocrity overnight. Likewise, turning the situation around cannot be accomplished quickly. To get the firm back on a solid footing, it is imperative to examine the current state of...; Tags: Litigation, Hildebrandt International Inc., law firm, accountability, absence, finance, strategy; White papers 2003-01-01
Crisis Communications: From the executive summary: ‘Some problems that law firms face regularly, especially in weak economic times, are so poorly managed that they do more damage than they should: layoffs, firings of partners, scandalous e-mails that become public, the departure of a high-profile lawyer or practice group, or a sexual harassment...; Tags: Litigation, law firm, crisis communication, harassment, firing, layoff, e-mail; White papers 2003-01-01
Strategic Capital Planning - Meeting Present Needs While Anticipating The Future: The contemporary business environment is ripe for law firms to strategize their future courses of action. They need to review their capitalization and consider the costs of future operations and initiatives. Detailed plan of capital structures and other activities needs to be prepared by the law firms. Such planning and...; Tags: Litigation, American Lawyer Media Inc., law firm, capital structure; White papers 2002-10-08
Benchmarking Knowledge Management in U.S. and UK Law Firms: Many law firms in each of the U.S., UK and Australia have been grappling with aspects of knowledge management for a long time. Leading firms have implemented systems to better manage portions of their knowledge. With the growth in the recognition of the value of the intellectual capital of organisations...; Tags: Benchmarking, Knowledge, Law Firm, Litigation, Knowledge Management, Strategy, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Management; White papers 2002-08-15
Is Your Firm Facing Trouble Ahead?: The contemporary business environment is full of unpredictable and unstable situations. These situations have far-reaching effects on several areas of a law firm. External environmental conditions have the potential to dictate the future course of strategy for a law firm. In such scenario, it is but obvious that law firms...; Tags: Litigation, Hildebrandt International Inc., law firm, strategy; White papers 2002-07-01