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Turnover of lawyers and staff is a frustrating and costly problem for firms of all sizes. What can you do to keep people from leaving? Are there any best practices for retaining your best and brightest employees? In this edition of "Ask the ...

There was a time when a sizable listing and an AV Peer Review rating in the Martindale-Hubbell directory was a lawyer's key to an endless flow of high-class clients. And today plenty of cash is still spent on premium listings in legal ...

Teddy Snyder | Your job is to persuade. Avoid condescending phrases that are more likely to repel the listener.

"Get to the Point!" is a huge fan of working the heck out of your dictionary to improve your writing. But is Google better?

The Friday Five | Life is complicated, but your relationships with your clients don’t have to be.

Annette Choti | To produce quality videos for your law firm, you need to understand what types of videos to make, how to film the content, where to distribute it and how to evaluate success.

Now, I’m not the sharpest tool in the machine shed, but even I’m not brave enough to try to build a buyer’s guide for law firm technology. In large part, that's because such a guide would be outdated as soon as it’s written down, a paper book ...

Bull Garlington | Networking sucks. Everybody hates it. I'm here with a list of proven behaviors and tricks that I have deployed in the field or brazenly pilfered from experts.

Attorney at Work’s “Women in Law” series honors Boston Globe Media Partners' Heather Stevenson.

Sally Schmidt | After two years away from in-person conferences, tradeshows and other large gatherings, your skills may be rusty.