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		<title>Profits per Partner</title>
		<link>http://inhouserants.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/profits-per-partner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A high profits per partner rank sends an important message to clients: &#8220;we&#8217;ve got margin to burn.&#8221;  A publicly-released high profits per partner ranking is a honeypot for like-minded rainmakers: a platform with an (arguably) low run rate and a brand name to be leveraged.  From the partnership&#8217;s short term operating perspective, this is good.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inhouserants.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1020446&amp;post=191&amp;subd=inhouserants&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pushing risk across the table</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We came across this excellent post by Patrick J. Lamb at In Search of Perfect Client Service awhile ago, and recently passed it on to colleagues whose outside counsel are doing the &#8220;alternative fee shuffle&#8221;.  We&#8217;re all kidding ourselves when we define &#8220;alternative fees&#8221; as &#8220;anything that&#8217;s not straight hourly rates.&#8221;  As Patrick says: It&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inhouserants.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1020446&amp;post=106&amp;subd=inhouserants&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Point two five</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Legal Bills]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the longest time only quantum physicists observing special relativity, and judges (see, e.g., Cal. Code Civ. Proc. §473) could enlarge time.  Not to be left out of the fun, lawyers invented the &#8220;minimum billing increment&#8221;, i.e. the smallest unit of billable time to be charged for a work task. Boilerplate engagement letters with white [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inhouserants.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1020446&amp;post=158&amp;subd=inhouserants&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zealous Advocacy That Isn&#8217;t</title>
		<link>http://inhouserants.wordpress.com/2010/07/11/zealous-advocacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 03:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So we&#8217;ve been in the middle of some (finally) productive m&#38;a activity in the last few months.  Like daisies after a rainstorm, the dormant deal lawyers haven&#8217;t been far behind. And so are some of their maddening concepts of client service. Besides the usual favorites like ignoring fee estimates (or even talking about fee estimates [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inhouserants.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1020446&amp;post=139&amp;subd=inhouserants&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Your R&amp;D is not my capital investment &#8230; it&#8217;s yours.</title>
		<link>http://inhouserants.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/your-rd-is-not-my-capital-investment-its-yours/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So last weekend, on a quiet nondescript morning, coffee freshly poured I thought, &#8220;No finer time than right now to review some law firm invoices.&#8221;  Ok, I didn&#8217;t really think that, but since this past week was going to be highly unproductive (it didn&#8217;t disappoint) it was time to get the mundane out of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inhouserants.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1020446&amp;post=108&amp;subd=inhouserants&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Serving lawsuits</title>
		<link>http://inhouserants.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/serving-lawsuits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attention plaintiffs&#8217; bar: If you&#8217;re suing a corporation, a limited liability company or a limited partnership, please go to the secretary of state&#8217;s office website for that jurisdiction, look up the exact spelling of the entity and its registered agent&#8217;s name and address. Draft and serve your summons &#38; complaint accordingly. Time spent: 5 minutes. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inhouserants.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1020446&amp;post=102&amp;subd=inhouserants&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Nag Us to Pay Legal Bills Early</title>
		<link>http://inhouserants.wordpress.com/2008/12/24/dont-nag-us-to-pay-legal-bills-early/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 02:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please don&#8217;t nag us to pay your December 10th invoices by year end.    It&#8217;s just not our problem that you woke up the day before Christmas Eve and realized your partnership points / bonus payment / bragging rights would fall short if you didn&#8217;t collect a lot of receivables by year-end. The last time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inhouserants.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1020446&amp;post=93&amp;subd=inhouserants&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Floating Deadlines</title>
		<link>http://inhouserants.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/floating-deadlines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://inhouserants.wordpress.com/?p=63</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all made the mistake of giving an assignment and failing to establish a clear deadline.  Outside counsel are no different from your staff or anyone else you&#8217;re collaborating with.  It&#8217;s easy to fall into the trap.  &#8220;As soon as possible&#8221; is a time-honored deadline diffuser.  Others are easily recognized, like &#8220;when you can&#8221;, &#8220;it&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inhouserants.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1020446&amp;post=63&amp;subd=inhouserants&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ask for Discounts&#8230; Now.</title>
		<link>http://inhouserants.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/ask-for-discounts-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>inhouserantor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing new here: things are slowing down (except bankruptcy and litigation, naturally.)  If you&#8217;re not asking for discounts, you&#8217;re not doing your job. We went to our top 5 firms (by billings last year), and said, &#8220;Hi. We need at least a 15% discount.&#8221; No one balked.  They had to be expecting it and were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inhouserants.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1020446&amp;post=53&amp;subd=inhouserants&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not dormant, just redirected</title>
		<link>http://inhouserants.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/not-dormant-just-redirected/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 04:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This economy is creating all sorts of new &#8220;challenges&#8221; that have momentarily directed our ranting elsewhere.  We&#8217;ll be back shortly. IHR<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inhouserants.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1020446&amp;post=61&amp;subd=inhouserants&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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