Social Networking for the Legal Profession
Social Networking for the Legal Profession provides best practice examples, and clear strategies for adopting and exploiting social networking for business, both internally and externally for operations, communication, and business development strategies.
The report takes into account the risk issues surrounding the use of social networking in a legal context and explains the challenges you must overcome to make implementation of a social networking strategy a success.
Through till March 5th you can order you copy with a $200 discount making it just $295 (excluding shipping). To order this report simply email melam@ark-group.com quoting the code BL-TP2 before March 5th.
View table of contents, introduction and executive summary here
Overview:
Social Networking for the Legal Profession
There has been a great deal of interest in social network-based technologies among law firms and corporate legal departments in recent years, but relatively few of them have been able to adopt these new tools in a meaningful way. Now, with the advent of the global recession and increased competition, more orgainizations are looking to social technologies for innovation, cost savings, and value enhancement.
This report will explore the networking practices and social tools that are currently being adopted by individuals in law firms and corporate legal departments, and provide you with practical guidance for getting started with an online social networking strategy, including:
- What do we mean by social networking in a legal context?
- Using online social networks for recruitment, value-added legal services, thought leadership and reputation management;
- Using networks across the orgainization to improve experience location, knowledge sharing, current awareness and internal communications;
- The role of social networks in improving both personal and network productivity, decision making, collective intelligence and relationship building;
- Challenges to establishing and participating in online social networks;
- How to evaluate and select social networking tools, and assimilate them in to your professional and personal life in ways that suit and make sense to you;
- Policy and governance issues around social networking adoption;
- A survey of personal, professional and lawyer-to-lawyer social network sites, including the best sites for lawyers and what they have to offer;
- How social tools support social networking within the firm, including blogs, wikis, presence sharing, social bookmarking and tagging; RSS, social news reading and syndication; and,
- Future social networking trends and their impact on the legal profession.
The guidance and expertise provided within the report is supported by case studies and interviews with legal professionals offering practical advice and insight into social networking and the use of social tools.
For more information on this report please contact us on 309 495 2853
Transition Planning for Law Firms
A comprehensive guide to securing core knowledge and expertise in the legal Profession
Managing Partner Magazine's new report Transition Planning for Law Firms is now available.
Through till March 3rd you can order you copy with a $200 discount making it just $295 (excluding shipping). To report simply email melam@ark-group.com quoting the code BL-TP1 before March 3rd.
Below is a brief overview and a full executive summary and table of contents can be found here
Overview:
Law firms are facing a leadership crisis - Quite simply, the ‘baby-boomer’ generation is nearing retirement and will soon leave their firms.
With this demographic crisis looming on the horizon, firms are left with a situation in which the younger generation are either unwilling or not suitably trained to take over the reins of leading their businesses.
In the next five years, your law firm will be transitioning to the next generation. If you fail to implement succession strategies now you may well find yourself with a leadership gap in just a few years’ time. And what will start as an internal problem will soon escalate to a business crisis, as your firm loses vital knowledge and the means to effectively serve your clients.
Managing Partner magazine's new report on Transition Planning for Law Firms will help you devise a sound succession plan for your firm that ensures not only a more secure organisational set-up that locks-in your core knowledge and expertise, but the means to impress your clients with the kind of long-term thinking that protects business interests.
The report begins by identifying the key challenges that lie ahead by examining the emerging demographic trends against most recent developments in the legal profession.
It then looks to provide innovative, realistic and simple solutions that can be cost-effectively applied in a post-recessionary environment. The report considers numerous issues including:
- The impact of generations X and Y on the practice of law in the 21st century. What do senior management need to know to ensure a smooth transition to the next generation?
- The retirement of the baby-boomer generation. What ongoing risks does this pose to a law firm’s business stability?
- The current preparedness of the younger generation to take the reins of their businesses. Do they even want to follow in the retirees’ footsteps?
- To what extent has the recession turned an ongoing succession challenge into a potential crisis, as numbers of lawyers, support staff and resources have been cut?
- What are the potential solutions – how can strategies such as mentoring, after-action reviews, story-telling and interactive learning help enable smooth transition between generations?
- What role can technology – and particularly Web 2.0 tools – play in addressing the succession challenge?
- And whose responsibility is succession planning anyway?
In the post-recession environment, firms will be keen to demonstrate to clients their long-term resilience following months of uncertainty. This important new report will include highly practical case studies from firms who have successfully implemented succession planning, including Weightmans LLP; Mills & Reeve LLP; Eversheds; Optim Legal; Macpherson & Kelley Lawyers; Altman Weil; Borden Ladner Gervais; and many more..
For more information on this report please contact us on 309 495 2853
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