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Three Winners of the 2009 Rainmaker of the Year awards have been selected and profiled in Originate! magazine. They offer the strongest role models to other lawyers in effective business development and marketing, and their stories show the tactics and techniques that make them successful.

It’s the season for gift giving and getting prepared for next year, but most lawyers do the same old thing…sending out holiday cards or attending more holiday parties. What else they could be doing is the subject of this month’s lead article in Originate!, the premiere online newsletter on business development for attorneys. This article [...]

With the economy still struggling, lawyers need to make sure that the marketing investments they make will pay off in hard results. What will give them a payback and what won’t is the subject of this month’s lead article by Steve Barrett in Originate!, the premiere online newsletter on business development for attorneys. www.pbdi.org/originate

Three leading lights from the corporate community will get into detail about how alternate fees work in law practice — including Paul Lippe, Founder of Legal Onramp, Jeffrey Carr, General Counsel for FMC Technologies and Dan Currell, Managing Director, General Counsel Roundtable.    Registration information is available at http://bit.ly/17t3Iz  The trio will appear on a [...]

The primary benefit that you can offer that clients want is predictability. Attendees of this LIVE webcast will learn how to wean themselves from the billable hour and explore blended rates, capped fees, fixed fees, retainers and success fees.

Ensuring requested opt-in email is delivered to subscriber inboxes is an increasingly difficult battle in the age of spam filtering. Open and click thru response rates can be dramatically affected by as much as 20-30% due to incorrect spam filter classification. Permission Confirming that the people who ask for your information have actually requested to [...]

In the previous article, I briefly discussed on how to detect potential frauds. Now, I describe two of the most common fraudulent transactions: “Bank Guarantees” and “Discounted Bank Instruments”. A. Bank Guarantee Scheme This is a very simple fraud.  A businessman or investor requires access to capital for his own purposes.  Let us say that [...]

In today’s electronic world, there are several new instances of sophisticated financial fraud. Some cases are easier to detect, however, in an increasingly uncertain economic environment, mostly because of the unease of the US Dollar and the increasing strength and influence of the Euro. This has resulted in “banking instrument” fraud becoming increasingly common. I [...]

Nicosia, 27 June 2008 – Cyprus is one of the most advantageous places of residency for Russian and Ukrainian companies. It offers a high level of banking, auditing, accounting and legal services, as well as its real estates, which developed Cyprus into a successful international business and financial centre. Some of the main factors and [...]

Marketers and consultants across the nation are invited to nominate lawyers for the Rainmaker of the Year Awards, sponsored by the editors of Originate! – the monthly business development newsletter, and judged by LSSO – the Legal Sales and Service Organization.  “We want to recognize the lawyers who have geared up to bring in business [...]