Creating Value
There are numerous ways to create value and numerous ways to destroy it. Effective corporate leadership excels with the former and is alert to the latter.

Whom Do You Serve? Evaluate Your Practice Areas.
The strategic-planning process for all law firms should include a comprehensive review of substantive practice areas. The successful law firm is not likely to be the one that is always reacting to its competition. Success will be dependent upon the ability of a firm to understand who its competition is, anticipate marketplace changes, and lead in innovation. Read on to learn about the four areas law firms of all sizes should focus on as part of their strategic-planning process.

Cold-Calling Checklist
A cold call is what the name implies: a phone call to a potential source of business with which you have had only minimal contact in the past or perhaps none at all. Ask most lawyers for their opinion on cold-calling for business, and you’re likely to find a unanimously negative reaction--which is too bad. Cold-calling offers a cheap and effective way of making contacts and finding work.

Sacked? Fired? Terminated?
The words “you’re fired” are dreaded and feared by most employees. Many employees report that they believe they are entitled to fair treatment at work and cannot be fired without good cause. However, as employees learn to their surprise, there is no enforceable legal right to fairness.

Defining “Just Compensation”
The power to take or reclaim property for governmental purposes—eminent domain—is generally considered to be a natural attribute of sovereignty. However, most governments require that compulsory purchase not only be accomplished for some governmental or public purpose, but also that the private landowner from whom the property is taken be fairly compensated for the loss.

Attorneys Tapped for Technology Trends
More than half (54%) of attorneys responding to the 2006 American Bar Association Legal Technology Survey Report indicated that they have disaster recovery plans, up from 42% in the 2004-2005 survey, possibly a reaction to the widespread destruction of Hurricane Katrina. To learn more about how attorneys are really using technology in their offices, read on.

The Curmudgeon on Couth
The Curmudgeon knows a thing or two about business etiquette. Communications among busy people should take into account the value of brevity, the benefit of prompt disclosure of the real purpose of the communication, and the need for later filing and retrieval of the communication.

Wave of the Future: e-Rulemaking
Although the possibilities of “e-rulemaking” began to be apparent to those with an aptitude and interest in computerized database management in the early 1990s, the use of electronic “bulletin boards” on the Internet to conduct rulemaking proceedings was still a novelty—until now.

ABA Compendium of Professional Responsibility Rules and Standards
ABA Center for Professional Responsibility
2006 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report
ABA Legal Technology Resource Center
Financial Statement Analysis and Business Valuation for the Practical Lawyer, Second Edition
ABA Section of Business Law
The Law of Later-Life Health Care and Decision Making
Senior Lawyers Division
The Lawyer's Guide to Balancing Life & Work, Second Edition
ABA Law Practice Management Section
Legislative History
ABA Center for Professional Responsibility

Annual Review in Developments in Business and Corporate Litigation, 2006 Edition
ABA Section of Business Law
Federal Banking Law & Regulations: A Handbook for Lawyers
ABA Section of Business Law
How to Build and Manage a Family Law Practice
ABA Family Law Section and the Law Practice Management Section
How to Build and Manage a Personal Injury Practice, Second Edition
Law Practice Management Section
International Stock Purchase Agreement: Summaries of the Law
ABA Section of Business Law
The Lawyer’s Guide to Fact Finding on the Internet, Third Edition
Law Practice Management Section
The Lawyer’s Guide to Records Management and Retention
Law Practice Management Section
Making Partner: A Guide for Law Firm Associates, Second Edition
Law Practice Management Section
Model Joint Venture Agreement with Commentary
ABA Section of Business Law
The Negotiator's Fieldbook
ABA Section of Dispute Resolution
Reorganizing Failing Businesses, Revised Edition A Comprehensive Review and Analysis of Financial Restructuring and Business Reorganization
ABA Section of Business Law