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- Be a Peak Performer
- How to Practice in Estate Planning
- Same-Sex Marriage in Alabama
- ABLE Act Adds Another Planning Tool for the Disabled
- New Year, Fresh Perspective.
- Could Capital Gains Taxation Change?
- Same-Sex Marriage Update
- Trusts and the Rule Against Perpetuities
- Same-Sex Marriage Update
- Altruistic Academy Associates
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- Dear Past, Thank You for the Lessons…
- Giving for the Holidays
- Who Owns the Casket?
- What Clients Want
- 10 Best States for Retirement
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- Same-Sex Marriage Showdown Likely
- Death with Dignity
- The Gift of Giving
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- Marriage: Whether to Say “I Do”
- Estate Planning is Not a Bunch of Hocus Pocus
- Don’t Forget the Intellectual Property
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- A Tale of Two Plans
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- End-of-Life Planning: Estate Planning at its Core
- How to WOW
- Amending or Restating: Which is Better?
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- Powers of Attorney
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- How Law Firms Can Build Strong Relationships with Banks
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- Accountability
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- Disclaimers
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- Farewell to Tony Gwynn, A Local San Diego Hero and Mentor
- Helping Clients Decide
- Choosing the Right Mix
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- Leaving a Charitable Legacy
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- Trust the Process
- Off to Houston!
- Personal Accountability
- Powers of Appointment
- Tax Day
- Penny-Wise, Pound-Foolish
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- Estate Planning: In Theaters Now
- “What is the Theme Song of Your Life?”
- Disclaimers
- Numbers Talk, But Are You Listening?
- Spring Cleaning
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- Pointers from Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Estate Plan
- Choosing the Right Fiduciary
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- Estate Planning for Olympians
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- 7 Important Questions in Drafting a Trust
- The Balkanization of Estate Planning
- Same-Sex Marriage: Utah is (Temporarily) 18th
- Downton Abbey Demonstrates Importance of Estate Planning
- Here’s to 2014!
- Same-Sex Marriage: New Mexico Becomes 17th; North Dakota Adds a Wrinkle
- Santa’s Eight Marketing Secrets to Successful Marketing
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- Planning for International Clients: Part 2 Foreign Assets
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- Hope Floats. Fear Sinks!
- Tax Reporting for Same-Sex Couples, Missouri Adds a New Twist
- Same-Sex Marriage expands to Hawaii
- Guiding the Client: You’re the Expert
- Illinois Makes 15
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- 10 Reasons Why Members Love Attending Our Events
- Think Before Squeezing the Toothpaste Tube!
- The Importance of Directives
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- Life and Death in Assisted Living
- James Gandolfini: A Death too Public
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- FREE GIFT for Webinar Participants: Latest Academy Education Department Recording on Supreme Court DOMA Ruling
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- Forgotten Estate Taxes
- THE ACADEMY’S GREATEST HITS — Session 7, Asset Protection—Staying Out of Trouble
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- THE ACADEMY’S GREATEST HITS — Session 6, How Genuine Rapport Generates Referrals
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- Communication
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- Academy Webinar Replay Now Available for Attorneys!
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- Communication is Key, Even When Relations are Strained
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- Get It While It Lasts!
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- Posthumously Conceived Children
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- Transformational Medicaid Training Workshop in Chicago for Academy Members
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- The Incredible Grat
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- Facebook Founders Provide an Excellent Estate Planning Example
- Building Relationships in Predictable Bursts
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- Three Talking Points from Whitney Houston’s Will
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- Keeping Dozens of Cats May Be Deductible
- Estate Planning: The Practice of Competing Goals
- Discounts: A Complex Matter
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- Philanthropy: Guiding Your Clients Towards a Lasting Legacy
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- Is LegalZoom Practicing Law?
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- The AB Trust: Still the Gold Standard
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- Consumers Want to Know More About TRA 2010: The New Tax Law
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- Having No Estate Tax: Is It an Opportunity to Die For?
- Can Congress Reinstate the Estate Tax Retroactively?
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- What Makes a Legal Document “Legal”?
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- Dan Duncan’s Heirs Hit A Gusher
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- Do Your Earnings Justify The Hours You Work?
- Judge Rules DOMA Unconstitutional: What It May Mean For Estate Planning
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- Get it While You Can: Short-Term, Zeroed-Out GRATs
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- Retirement Plans and the Spouse: Special Relationship, Special Rules
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- Enhance Your Website and Social Media Channels with Images
- The Truth About Email Marketing Lists
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- Google My Business (GMB) Posts & Your Law Firm
- Top Ten Tips for Stellar Email Marketing Campaigns
- The Online Marketing Metrics That Matter Most
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- Have You Heard About The….?
- Local Search Rankings and Your Law Firm
- Engaging Law Firm Prospects with Live Chat on Your Website
- Securing Your Law Firm’s Facebook Page
- 4 Quick Tips for Optimizing for Increased Conversions
- Elements of an Effective Website
- The Ultimate Guide to Google Posts
- 6 Vital Steps to Take When Moving Your Law Firm to a New Location
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- How to Keep Your Law Firm Content at the Top of Facebook’s Newsfeed
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- Back by Popular Demand: So You Want to Start a Podcast?
- 5 Pitfalls to Avoid with Facebook
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- 3 Easy Ways to Improve your Law Firm’s Local Search Rankings
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- Top 3 Reasons You Need to Consider Mobile for SEO
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- Video Marketing & Your Law Firm – If You Film It, They Will Come
- Quick-Start Guide to SEO in 2017
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- Backlinks & Your Law Firm
- Fact or Opinion?
- 12 Days of Online Marketing
- 11 Ways to Identify Your Ideal Client
- How Even the Busiest Attorneys Make Time for Content Marketing (and Why They Should!)
- Keys to Increasing Your Law Firm’s Conversion Rate
- Social Media: The (Potential) Humanizing Effect
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- 10 Tips for Effectively Using Video in your Social Media Marketing
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- Amp Up Your Online Event Marketing
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- Email Marketing: the Path to Increased Conversions
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- Stop Googling Yourself and Start Accurately Measuring Your Online Marketing Success
- 5 Surefire Ways to Turn Away Prospects with Your Content
- How Facebook Audience Optimization Can Help You to Better Connect with Followers
- 5 Ways to Make Your Law Firm Website the Best Site It Can Be in 2016
- Dear PBC…
- Making a List, Checking it Twice! 10 Ideas to Jump Start 2016
- Google Shares Search Quality Guidelines
- Six Link-Building Mistakes That Could Damage Your SEO Strategy
- 4 Easy Ways to Improve your Local Search Rankings
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- Is Your Law Firm Website Turning Away Prospects?
- Google Panda 4.2 Is Here: What It Means For Your Law Firm
- Got the Summertime Blues? Plan for Blue Skies Instead!
- Facebook Authorship Feature Can Help You Build a Following
- Is Your Firm’s Credibility in Question?
- Lights! Camera! Action!
- Making Avvo Work for You
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- New Google Mobile-Friendly Algorithm About to Launch
- 11 Ways To Identify Your Ideal Client
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- 5 Actionable Tips for Improving Your LinkedIn Presence
- Discover the SEO Benefits of Event Marketing
- What Attorneys Can Learn From My Dentist
- 2014 Google Updates & What They Mean To You in the New Year
- ‘Tis the Season for the Personal Touch
- Five Quick Steps to Building Your 2015 Social Media Marketing Calendar
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- Remain Top of Mind & Earn More Business With These 5 Emails
- School’s Back in Session! How Kids Can Teach Us Something About Organization
- How to Effectively Market Your Law Firm on Twitter
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- Google My Business & Your Law Firm
- 5 Quick Steps to Effective Law Firm Marketing on LinkedIn
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- Drip, Drip, Drop: Drip Marketing Just Won’t Stop
- Online Search Now the Most Popular Way to Find an Attorney
- 5 Email Marketing Etiquette Tips
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- 4 Ways to Make Prospects Fall in Love With Your Law Firm
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- Are You Guilty of One of These 5 Marketing Design Sins?
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- 3 Steps to Establishing Google Authorship
- Make SlideShare Part of Your Content Marketing Strategy
- What Benjamin Franklin Can Teach Us About Email Marketing
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- THE ACADEMY’S GREATEST HITS — Session 5, Integrated Law Firm Marketing
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- The 5 Biggest SEO Mistakes You’re Making
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- 3 Steps to Google+ Success
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- Four Stories That Will Help You Earn More Business
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- Add This: Google+ Now Available for HootSuite
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- Six Tips for Running a Successful Social Media Promotion
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- 15+ Ways to Avoid Getting Ripped Off with Direct Mail – Part 3
- 15+ Ways to Avoid Getting Ripped Off with Direct Mail – Part 2
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- Employee Engagement: Myths vs Facts
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- Off-Site Backup
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- A New Skill Set: Initial Consultations via Skype
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- Why Rebooting Is A Good Idea!
- Category: Law Firm Web Tips
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- Are You in Good Company? It Matters More Than You Think
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- Details, Details: 8 Tips for a Stellar First Impression
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- Shaking Things Up – Summer Fun at the Academy
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- 3 Pro Tips For a 30-Day Challenge that Sticks
- Your New Favorite Word
- When It’s Time to PURGE!
- Plan Your Work and Work Your Plan
- How Do You Create Your Why?
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- Make Your Meetings Count – Part 2
- Make Your Meetings Count
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- Are You A Shark?
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- Hope for Those Without a Vision
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- Yeah, I Can Do That!
- The Damage “Drift” Can Do to Your Practice
- Give Me A Break!
- What is Your Future?
- The Debrief Down and Dirty
- Is It Time to Try Something New?
- Vision Test
- Stop Reading So Much!
- Is Guilt Our Guilty Pleasure?
- Effective Communication: Part 1 The Banishment of Huh, Hmmm, and Duh
- Hey, Law Firm Leader… What’s Your Number?
- Traveling on Election Day? We’ve Got You Covered!
- Time Blocking 201: The Perfect Time to do Everything
- Starting with the End in Mind
- Don’t Make Resolutions, Create New Habits
- Planning for Success: 2016 Academy Retreat Takeaways
- Chicken Feed and Client-Centric Culture – Does Your Team Know the Difference?
- New Year, New Wins!
- Leading the Way
- ‘Tis the Season
- Do You Want to Die at Your Desk?
- From the Desk of the Event Manager
- 4 Questions to Ask Yourself to Accomplish Your Goals with More Velocity
- How to Minimize Interruptions and Boost Your Productivity
- Taking Back Control: Your Calendar on Your Terms
- Become an Awesome Boss
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- Rejuvenate Your Team with a Retreat
- How to Conduct Successful, Productive Meetings — Part 2
- How to Conduct Successful, Productive Meetings
- The Power of Acknowledgment in Team Building
- A Year End Message from the Academy Founders
- Are Disney Employees Really Happy?
- What Are You Thankful for This Year?
- Choosing the Right Yardstick
- No Complaints Thursday
- Adventures Outside the Comfort Zone
- Last Call
- Engagement Announcement!
- Weekend Tip for Attorneys
- Free 2-Part Attorney Webinar Series Available to Non-Academy Members!
- 4 Key Characteristics Successful Business Owners Do Well
- CEO Profiles
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- Hey, Law Firm Leader… What’s Your Number?
- Helpful Tools for Hiring the Right People
- Using Google Hangout in Your Law Firm
- THE ACADEMY’S GREATEST HITS— Session 8, 16 Inconvenient Truths About the Legal Industry
- Why Detaching from Your Job After Working Hours Enhances Your Job Performance
- A New Opportunity for Academy Members to Systematize and Grow Their Practice
- Employee Bonus Plans – Options for Incentivizing a Team
- Tips to Dealing with a Disaster or Emergency
- What Does Football Season Have in Common With Law Firms?
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- Your Law Firm—A Family Business
- Robert Armstrong and Sanford M. Fisch Co-Author the E-Myth Attorney
- Business Casual and the Psychology of Office Attire: Who Cares What You Wear To Work As Long As You Perform?
- Category: Legal Education
- Basics of Estate Planning: Taxation of Trusts
- Committed to a Lifetime of Learning
- Law Firm Accounting Habits
- New Healthcare Directive in the Making?
- Gary Coleman Probate Clouded by Common Law Marriage
- Real Case—Fearless Judge
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- Rollover Confusion
- 9th Circuit Rules on Anna Nicole Smith Case
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- The Best Place to Die in 2010
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- Same-Sex Marriage Inches Forward
- Powers of Attorney and Their Pitfalls
- Isn’t It Just Some Form?
- Client Suicide and Attorney Ethics
- Some States Consider Overriding Estate Plans
- A Gift is Still a Gift in 2010
- Essential Systems for Marketing and Managing an Estate Planning Law Firm…Ignore at Your Peril
- Administration Seeks New Rules for FLPs and GRATs
- Category: Marketing Tools
- Category: Medicaid
- Category: Owners Compensation
- Category: Peak Performer Focus
- Category: Practice Management
- Making a List and Checking It Twice
- Work Smarter, Not Harder: The Best Way to Make Your Law Practice Work More Efficiently and Profitably for YOU
- 11 Apps We’re Thankful For
- The Terrifying Truth About How to Reach Your Goals
- If All Your Friends Jumped Off A Bridge…
- 5 Pragmatic Strategies for Managing Your Online Reputation
- Revenue Per Attorney
- What Are You Working On Right Now?
- What’s Your Process?
- Why Excellent Employees Can Be Your Weak Spot
- Six Practical Ideas for Keeping in Touch With Your Clients
- The Secret to Turning a Prospect into a Client
- Your Systems Are Your Signature
- The Magic of Organizational Strategy
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- Year End Message From Robert And Sandy
- A Portrait of Your Ideal Law Firm
- New Advance Care Planning Video: For Your Clients & Community
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- Politics Doesn’t Change the Need for Estate Planning
- A Surprising Secret to Growing Your Firm
- We Interrupt This Workday for a Brief Glimpse of Your Future
- Recipe for Disaster!
- Time Is On Your Side…
- Surprise Them by NOT Surprising Them!
- Estate Planning Boot Camp Coming Up
- Spending Time on Revenue Producing Activities
- 7 Critical Areas for Lawyers to Dominate Their Market
- Getting from Here to There Requires a Map
- Do Multi-tasking, Spell Check, and Auto-Fill Now Excuse Spelling and Grammar Errors?
- What Do You Expect?
- July 20 Conference Call Promises To Transform Estate Planning Law Practices
- Stepping Out of the Spotlight
- You Can’t (and Shouldn’t) Do It All
- Is the Legal Business Going off a Cliff?
- New Orleans 2011 Spring Summit – Nice Bike!
- HIPAA Brings Down the Hammer
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- The Numbers Game
- Voluntary Advance Care Planning Legislation Proposed
- The Sky is NOT Falling!
- Initial Consultations: Skype vs. Face-to-Face
- Faceless Name on a Family Tree
- Death and Taxes: Five Tips to Save Your Sanity
- Subleasing for Lawyers: Managing the Relationship
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- Hiring With An Attitude
- Response to Robert Armstrong’s blog, “Is Your Copier Breaching Your Duty of Confidentiality?”
- Is Your Copier Breaching Your Duty of Confidentiality?
- Advice on Enchanting Your Customers
- Of Clients and PDF Files: Part Two
- That Sinking Feeling
- A Labor of Love: Caring For Your Aging Parents
- Of Clients and PDF Files: Part One
- The Party No One Wants To Plan
- Why We’re Not In The Commodities Market
- Do Well by Doing Good – April 16
- Walking The Line
- Peak Performer Tip: Name Your Price
- Peak Performer Tip: Getting It All Done
- Understanding Your Firm’s Money: Will It Be There When You Need It?
- Hope For A New Year
- Understanding Your Firm’s Money: Profit
- Medicare End-of-Life Counseling Disappears Again
- Understanding Your Firm’s Money: Know Your Number
- Tucson Tragedy Offers a “Teachable Moment”
- Medicare Reverses New Policy on Advance Care Planning
- Understanding Your Firm’s Money
- 10 Google Tips for Lawyers
- American Academy of Estate Planning Attorneys Announces Initial Consultation Training with Guru Ganesha Khalsa
- The Basics, With Electronic Bells And Whistles
- If You Want a Friend, Get a Dog
- What Business Are You In?
- Once a Client, Always a Client? Not Necessarily
- Success Is An Inside Job
- Timing Is Everything
- Have You “Ganeshed” Someone Lately?
- Are You Functioning at Your Maximum Productive Capacity?
- Shrinking Law Firms: Avoiding the Trend
- Employers Eligible For Tax Breaks
- Ready, Fire… Aim? Success Requires Planning and Execution
- Elder Law And The Recession
- Too Hungry Causes Bad Clients
- Does the Work Get Done…Or Do You Have To Do Everything?
- A True Story
- Does Your Staff Enjoy Challenging, Rewarding Positions In Your Firm?
- Do You Have Enough Time For Family, Friends, And Personal Endeavors?
- How To Get Employers And Employees On The Same Page
- Happy Independence Day
- A Refreshing Change of Pace—Meet Charles Pyke
- Testing for Great Legal Secretaries
- Are Your Rapport Building Skills Magic or Tragic?
- Part 5, Hard Drives: Computer Tips for Your Estate Planning Law Firm
- Main Ingredient In Attorney Consultations
- Part 4, RAM: Computer Tips for Your Estate Planning Law Firm
- Verdict Is In: Guilty
- Part 3, CPU: Computer Tips for Your Estate Planning Law Firm
- Part 2, OS: Computer Tips for Your Estate Planning Law Firm
- ACADEMY SPRING SUMMIT 2010 RECAP, PART 4
- ACADEMY SPRING SUMMIT 2010 RECAP, PART 3
- ACADEMY SPRING SUMMIT 2010 RECAP, PART 2
- ACADEMY SPRING SUMMIT 2010 RECAP, PART 1
- One Thing For Sure…
- Part 1, Intro: Computer Tips for Your Estate Planning Law Firm
- Online Marketing for Lawyers
- Estate Planning Law Firm “Boot Camp”
- In Managing Your Practice, Keep a Little Perspective
- Marketing To Your Ideal Client
- Practice Management in an Estate Planning Law Firm Begins With Systems
- YOU KNOW THE WHAT, NOW HERE’S THE HOW!
- Courts Say Yes To New Marketing Rules For Law Firms
- The Connection Between Morale and Leadership in Your Estate Planning Law Firm
- The Easiest Things You Can Do Right
- An Introduction to Online Marketing for Estate Planning Attorneys
- Track Like a Dog
- Natalie Choate’s Academy Summit Session and Offer!
- Revenue Per Person in an Estate Planning Law Practice
- The One-Legged Chair
- Branding – It’s Not Just For Livestock
- 11 Essential Systems #11 – Ancillary Business System: Developing Multiple Sources of Revenue
- 11 Essential Systems #10 – Continuing Legal Education System: Staying on the Cutting Edge of Effective Legal Strategies
- 11 Essential Systems #9 – Financial Management System: Managing by the Numbers to Keep in Touch With Your Profitability
- 11 Essential Systems #8 – Staff Accountability / Team Building: Putting the Right People With the Right Skills in the Right Positions
- 11 Essential Systems #7 – Comprehensive Technology Systems: Integration of the Best Tools to Draft Documents and Manage Your Firm
- 11 Essential Systems #6 – Continuity Revenue Stream: Dependable Annual Income from Each Client
- 11 Essential Systems #5 – Lifetime Communication System: Regularly Communicating With Clients Through Multiple Touches
- Q&A: Why do the pictures I download look so fuzzy in my materials?
- Estate Planning Law Firm Blogging Rules to Live By
- Dazzle Them The Way A Slide Never Could
- 11 Essential Systems #4 – Dependable Client Services System: Drafting, Presenting and Executing State of the Art Estate Plans
- 11 Essential Systems for a Successful Estate Planning Law Practice
- Here Today—Gone Tomorrow
- 11 Essential Systems for a Successful Estate Planning Law Practice
- Is Success Really As Easy As 1-2-3? (Yep, it is)
- 11 Essential Systems for a Successful Estate Planning Law Practice
- Tweet Me Up Scotty
- The Black Swan of Estate Planning Clients
- “Marketing Perfection-Itis” Cripples Law Firms Everywhere!
- Sky’s the Limit… or is there a Lid in Your Way?
- Does Your Law Firm Marketing Reflect Your Authentic Voice?
- Running an Effective Law Practice Starts with Systems
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- A Lawyer’s Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste…
- Twenty-Ten or Two Thousand Ten?
- It Takes A Group Effort!
- Category: SEO/Social Media Support
- Category: Software
- Category: Strategic Planning
- Category: Uncategorized
- Unique New Funeral Products Reflect New Industry Trends
- I was a burned out litigatorit’s transformed our lives.
- I was a burned out litigatorit’s transformed our lives.
- I was a burned out litigatorit’s transformed our lives.
- New Advance Directive Study: Useful Findings but Confusing Reporting
- Persistent Vegetative State Seen as Worse than Death
- How You Can Help the Southeast Tornado Victims
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- When The Going Gets Tough–The Tough Go Back To The Basics!
