How had it all gone so horribly wrong? That was the question that Jim McCann, the Managing Shareholder of Abel, Bennett & Comings Inc. kept asking himself as he watched his office being packed up. The numerous reminders of his [...]
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From Accounting And Financial Planning For Law Firms 12/2013 -- Almost 30 years ago when I began my career consulting to law firms, the then managing partner of Donovan Leisure Newton & Irving used that term to refer to the months [...]
From Accounting And Financial Planning For Law Firms January 2013 --Several years ago, I worked with ALM Research to develop a survey of outsourcing trends within the legal profession. When the survey was first conducted (2006) the outsourcing of administrative functions [...]
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From Accounting And Financial Planning For Law Firms December 2011 -- “If you do what you have always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten!” That very famous quote from Anthony Robbins describes in a sentence the results of the [...]
From Accounting And Financial Planning For Law Firms July 2011 --Months ago, when you and a few hand-picked colleagues realized your dream of independence by starting your own law firm, you vowed that you’d never repeat the mistakes made by [...]
From Accounting And Financial Planning For Law Firms 3/11 --It is still early enough in the year and not everyone has completely abandoned their New Year’s resolutions. Many may be wondering just what they were thinking when they resolved to [...]
From Accounting And Financial Planning For Law Firms 10/10 --Partnerships, documented or practiced out of necessity (think of the Neanderthal man and the wooly mammoth) have existed for thousands of years. Human beings are fundamentally, social creatures and we like [...]
From Accounting And Financial Planning For Law Firms 4/10 --In the early summer of 2008, the American legal landscape was very different than it is today. The recently published AmLaw 100 list documented that 60 American Law firms had reported [...]
From The New York Law Journal 9/04 --The times they are a changing. Or at least that’s what the old song says and in the back offices of many law firms it’s true. In the last ten years the outsourcing [...]