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Ben Schorr's tips for using Microsoft Windows' built-in dictation tools for lawyers — and a few familiar add-ons — to capture work at the speed of thought.

Brooke Lively | If you scale one part of your growth system (like marketing) without scaling the rest (like hiring), you’re going to break something. Usually, it’s the client experience. Here's how to avoid that.

You can do plenty of things to stay in the good graces of your referral sources, even if you can't always refer back work. Here are a few good ideas from law firm business development expert Sally Schmidt.

For PI lawyer Susan Cohodes, scaling back her practice and recovering from burnout means saying no to problem cases and clients. Here's how that's working out.

You're sure you explained everything clearly, but was the message received? Follow Teddy Snyder's tips to make sure your clients really hear you, absorb your advice and act on it correctly.

Who wants to lead? Untested assumptions and polite, well-meaning lies can lead to succession planning mistakes. Tracy Callahan identifies four partner patterns that corrode even the strongest partnerships. Can you spot them in your firm?

Wendy Merrill | It’s lonely at the top — an inconvenient reality most managing partners feel but don’t want to admit.

Jay Harrington | Drowning in a sea of endless notifications and conflicting priorities? Discover 5 highly effective, field-tested attorney productivity tips to help you reclaim your calendar, maximize billable hours, and eliminate administrative ...

"If you want to reach the next plateau of your career and enjoy your life while doing it, you have to stop pretending that being available 24/7 is a badge of honor." Jason Wright has five pragmatic rules for preventing burnout in his family law ...

Ernie Svenson: A curated chatbot finally makes all the knowledge trapped in your law firm useful — without a big-firm budget and without a KM department. Here's how.