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“What if…?” - The Need for Cautious Pessimism in Law Firm Strategic Planning
It is one thing to envision the year 2025. It is quite another to know how to get there.
We have identified several very serious crises that could arise in the next ten years and could shake the financial and organizational foundations of many law firms that are surprised by them.

Recession-Proof Your Law Firm: New Dynamic Approaches to Planning
This is final installment in a series of four posts about how law firms can anticipate, prepare for, and respond successfully to the next recession or economic downturn..
It outlines the third, and possibly most important, change that law firms must make to increase their chances of surviving the next recession (assuming that they emerge from the recent one).

Recession-Proof Your Law Firm: Innovations in Client Care
This is the third in a series of four posts about how law firms can anticipate, prepare for, and respond successfully to the next recession or economic downturn. We are investigating three basic rules that describe how a relatively small group of law firms — of all sizes, practice specialties, and locations — not only have survived the Great Recession that began in 2007, but actually have emerged from it stronger than before.
In this post, let's consider client retention tactics: taking care of your clients through innovations in client care.

Recession-Proof Your Law Firm: Pay attention to the business.
This is the second of a series of four posts that outline issues that law firms should consider today in order to be prepared for future recessions... or worse.
Cash is the life blood of a law firm at any time, and it is critical to survival in a troubled economy.

The Next Recession: Is your firm ready?
This is the first of a four-part series that examines possible strategies and tactics to prepare your law firm now for the next recession.
Some of them also can produce good results now — even without an economic downturn.