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24 Jun 8:12 am
... would be fixed through the use of online footnotes. Many remain very skeptical of this explanation. Hasselbeck, on the other hand, is being sued by Susan Hassett, the author of a self-published book "Living with Celiac Disease" that she claims to have sent to
Hasselbeck to encourage her to promote awareness of the condition. According to Hassett, Hasselbeck's new book, "The G-Free Diet: A Gluten-Free
Survival Guide," borrows heavily from her work including, ...
13 Jan 10:00 pm
... of five parts. I was wrong. There will be more. But while many people agree that alternative fees are a hot issue, there is less agreement about exactly which types of billing are
alternative and which are not. As ACC General Counsel Susan Hackett put it in an interview with Corporate Counsel "I don't know what
alternative billing will look like. Perhaps you'll see more contract people, more people providing legal products and services that are currently being done by lawyers but probably
don¹t ...
18 Nov 1:36 pm
... the case. The VIew co-host had been accused of plagiarizing portions of her book "The G-Free Diet: A Gluten-Free Survival Guide" from self-published author Susan Hassett, who published a similar gluten-free cookbook and had, according to her testimony, sent Hasselbeck ...
called celiac disease, which requires Hasselbeck to go on a gluten-free diet. The lawsuit was dismissed because Hassett's attorney, Richard
Cunha, decided that, while, in his mind, there were incidents of plagiarism ...
12 Nov, 2008 6:00 am
... alternative pricing plans, including fixed rates, volume discounts and lower rates in exchange for performance bonuses." That article quoted Susan Hackett, the general counsel of ACC: "When we started looking at this project, we were thinking, 'How do we make people ... good in theory can be hard
to work out in a real world of conflicting priorities and demands. As ACC's Susan Hackett put it in an email: "In-house counsel are going to
have to define exactly what they want law firms to do, and then ...
3 Sep, 2007 9:02 pm
... towards your reason for being - The Client. What About Clients? published a terrific series called The 12 Rules of Client Service in April, 2006. It is a very worthwhile read and
will educate or (re)-educate you on your raison d'etre. Jim Hassett over at Legal Business Development posts a very valuable list of 24
questions on how to cultivate your existing client base. We tend to neglect those we have already served, fail to canvas them to see if they are leaving as clients who will continue to
...
17 Jan, 2008 9:02 pm
... called 'client-centered approach' but not really sure what it means. Or worse, intellectually understand what it means but have no practical experience with it so you flounder
during the initial consultation losing business but not understanding why. Jim Hassett, author or LegalBizBlog and consultant to large and
mid-sized firms, in two very popular posts back in June, 2007, gave us 34 questions to ask prospective clients and 24 more questions to ask current clients. In these posts Jim focuses
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22 Apr, 2008 10:00 pm
... like the one who said: "I think I'll start pushing back harder when my outside counsel ask me for their usual rate increases." In a great post called In a Weakening Economy Will
Clients Trade Big Law for Innovative Small Firms? Susan Cartier Liebel described how consumers react to recessions by trading down from steak
to chicken, and then spelled out some implications for small firms. Her argument applies equally to mid-sized firms that can undercut large firms, and to large firms that undercut ...
6 Nov, 2008 11:00 am
In Jim Hassett's Legal Business Development Blog we learn something rather astonishing (not) about the real agenda of law schools and law
firms. This month's meeting of the Boston Legal Business Development Roundtable (Choate, Goodwin Procter, Goulston, Holland & Knight, K&L Gates, Nixon Peabody, and Nutter,
McClennen & Fish ) was the first time we invited an outside speaker. Seven senior business development professionals from Boston's largest firms talked with Dr. David Nersessian ...
20 Jan 10:00 pm
... money, but they also get higher quality legal work. And the effect on morale is unbelievable, because this approach gives lawyers permission to do right by their clients." However,
firms that use fixed fees are still the exception, not the rule. ACC General Counsel Susan Hackett has estimated that more than 95% of legal
work is still billed on an hourly basis. But no one knows for sure and she also noted in an interview with Law.com that as part of its Value Challenge, ACC has started "some ...
24 Mar 10:00 pm
... By that definition, 17% of respondents reported that they spent more than 10% of their budgets on alternative fees. Some people argue that these numbers are bound to go up, because
so many legal clients are dissatisfied about the way firms currently operate. As Susan Hackett summed up the problem in an American Lawyer
interview about the ACC Value Challenge: "Take a look at the cost of legal services and the fact that they've been rising 6, 7, 8 percent a year, for as long as anyone can remember ...
13 May 1:00 am
... & Ellis to found Bartlit & Beck 16 years ago, he thought that once the benefits became known, change would come quickly. It didn't. Other experts have offered similar
observations. Last November, Law.com interviewed Susan Hackett, general counsel of the Association of Corporate Counsel, about the progress the
ACC Value Challenge was making in promoting alternative fees. According to Hackett, "Lots of clients' lips are moving, but their feet aren't moving." On the West panel, Richard ...
20 Feb, 2007 12:24 pm
... to KM," writes Rusanow, who notes that only 13 percent of firms are tracking ROI. Click here for more 411. * Solo advice: Susan Cartier
Liebel, who writes a weekly column for our Connecticut Law Tribune on solo and small firm practice issues, has a blog with a ... think of lamb chops, but I must be hungry. Check it out
here. (It's got a kewl Reader Poll, too!) * Jim Hassett says he rarely writes on tech issues on his marketing blog, but he's so frustrated
about his client relationship management ...
29 Jun, 2007 9:51 am
... , inter alia, fact sheets and other informational materials. Kenneth P. Green, Steven F. Hayward & Kevin A. Hassett, American
Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI), Climate Change: Caps vs. Taxes, (Environmental Policy Outlook, ... ideas and the framework by which legislators should evaluate
them."-Abstract. Beth E. Lachman, Anny Wong & Susan A. Resetar, RAND National Defense Research Institute, The Thin Green Line: An
Assessment of DoD's Readiness and Environmental Protection ...
3 Feb, 2008 5:55 pm
... strong business connections, you can take a look at lawyer/marketing consultant Cole Silver's new Expert Audio Series. I'm one of the contributors, along with a host of other legal
bloggers, including: Stephanie West Allen Larry Bodine Carolyn Elefant Jim Hassett Daniel Hull Dennis Kennedy Patrick Lamb Susan Cartier Liebel Ed Poll Gerry Riskin
7 Aug 9:49 am
... , 2009), and Richard Susskind & The End of Lawyers and the Future of Women in The Law (Mar. 26, 2009), both at MyShingle.com; Susan
Cartier Liebel, Will You Be A 20th Century Solo Or A 21st Century Solo?, Build A Solo Practice @ SPU (Mar. 25, 2009); ... by Jordan Furlong at Law21 (Feb. 10, 2009); Review by Mitch
Kowalski in the Financial Post (Feb. 10, 2009); Review by Jim Hassett of Legal Business Development (Feb. 4, 2009); Brief review by Donna Tuke
in For Your Information: ABA Tech Show and ...
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