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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&blog=1020446&post=108&subd=inhouserants&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Serving lawsuits</title>
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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. Time saved fighting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inhouserants.wordpress.com&blog=1020446&post=102&subd=inhouserants&ref=&feed=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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://inhouserants.wordpress.com/?p=93</guid>
		<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&blog=1020446&post=93&subd=inhouserants&ref=&feed=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>
		<dc:creator>inhouserantor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lawyers]]></category>
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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&blog=1020446&post=63&subd=inhouserants&ref=&feed=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>
				<category><![CDATA[Legal Bills]]></category>
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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 only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inhouserants.wordpress.com&blog=1020446&post=53&subd=inhouserants&ref=&feed=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
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		<title>A Marketing Lunch that Worked</title>
		<link>http://inhouserants.wordpress.com/2008/07/26/a-marketing-lunch-that-worked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 05:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>inhouserantor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legal Marketing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://inhouserants.wordpress.com/?p=36</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week we were invited to lunch by counsel who are working with us for the first time.  They&#8217;re with a mid-sized firm appointed by an insurance company.  We&#8217;ve been impressed with the legal work.  They have been working hard to find a way to dispose of the case without tying up our executives&#8217; time. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inhouserants.wordpress.com&blog=1020446&post=36&subd=inhouserants&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s 4:30 p.m. Do you know where your lawyer is?</title>
		<link>http://inhouserants.wordpress.com/2008/07/18/its-430-pm-do-you-know-where-your-lawyer-is/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>inhouserantor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Outside Counsel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In film production they call it &#8220;the magic hour&#8221;: that wonderful time of day when the sun is low in the sky, and the ambient light takes on a golden hue that makes everyone look great.
In the law biz, it&#8217;s 4:30 p.m. on a Friday.  That&#8217;s when process servers show up bearing gifts, your HR [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inhouserants.wordpress.com&blog=1020446&post=26&subd=inhouserants&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Management is not Fun</title>
		<link>http://inhouserants.wordpress.com/2008/07/11/management-is-not-fun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 06:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a rant about managing.  Actually, it&#8217;s about not managing.
My department keeps fairly busy dealing with the legal fallout from executives who won&#8217;t manage their direct reports.  Not can&#8217;t manage &#8212; won&#8217;t manage.
&#8220;We&#8217;re a hit-the-ground-running-lift-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps kind of place&#8221; is an excuse for refusing to do the boring work of staying in touch, mentoring and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inhouserants.wordpress.com&blog=1020446&post=24&subd=inhouserants&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to get Legal Business &#8211; Step 3</title>
		<link>http://inhouserants.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/how-to-get-legal-business-step-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>inhouserantor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legal Marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[More on getting legal business.  This time: Get your message out.  Demonstrate your successes.  You&#8217;ve got credibility . . . show it.
Most in-house lawyers make buy vs. build decisions all day.  Do I use my staff or do I hire outside counsel?  You want to be the person that keeps us from getting to &#8220;build&#8221;.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inhouserants.wordpress.com&blog=1020446&post=21&subd=inhouserants&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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