“Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water …” Thirty years ago, that was the tagline for Jaws 2, the 1978 second instalment to the iconic shark movie, Jaws, that three years earlier kept many movie goers from daring to dip a toe in the water never mind venture out for a swim. The odds of being killed by a shark are 1 in 3,748,067. Furth...

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The Legal Marketing Association’s “Your Honor Awards” is an international program recognizing excellence in virtually every discipline of marketing and business development within the legal industry. For 2018, the number of submissions exceeded expectations with 166 entries – an increase of 58 per cent over the previous year. Recipients were anno...

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The year 2008 marked a global financial crisis that was considered the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930s. It also marked the end of the traditional law firm’s 20-year bull run. Now, a decade later, 2018 will be a make-or-break year for many firms. Some will fail while others will fracture. Some are scrambling to save themselves while others re...

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“Kicking it old-school” means doing things the traditional way. Steeped in tradition, the legal profession is the epitome of old-school. Even though there are some traditions worth keeping, kicking out some of the old-school ways opens capacity to take in some of the new. In the thick of back-to-school season, now is when tired old-school legal lin...

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In the legal industry, ABS is an acronym for “alternative business structure.” It can also mean “About business, stupid.” It’s taken six months for me to read Breakdown by Norman Bacal, his first-person account of the rise and fall of Heenan Blaikie LLP. The delay was because my time has been limited and the story was like reading about the Titanic ...

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