Getting Bang for Your Buck: Spend Your 2025 Privacy Budget Wisely
DE Under 3: Biden "Hits the Brakes" on Non-Defense Discretionary Budgets for Federal Agencies in FY 2025 Budget Proposal
DE Under 3: Big Budget Opponents Again Stop a Final Federal FY 2024 Budget, Congress Keeps Agency Spending to FY 2023 Levels
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 383: Talking about Money with Jesse Mecham, Founder of You Need A Budget
DE Under 3: OFCCP’s Congressional Budget Justification Is Chock-Full of Insights Into the Agency’s Plans & Past Performance
Early Returns with Jan Baran Podcast: There's a New Chair in Town – Dara Lindenbaum and the FEC Agenda Looking Towards 2024
The Strategic Side of Compliance Budgets
DE Under 3: Agency Budget Requests, Transgender Day of Visibility traction, and the fall of Trump OFCCP’s “Four Pillars”
Inside DC Podcast: FY2022 Budget Recap and the DC Council’s Fall Agenda
Inside DC: Highlights and Implications of the FY 2022 Budget
Inside DC: What To Expect From the DC Budget Process
Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 17-budgeting for compliance
In all our work with clients, my evaluation and expectations around compliance readiness come down to one point: Governance. This can mean a variety of things when it comes to a compliance program, but overall, we boil it...more
Your Strategic Playbook for Securing Early Approvals - As the year comes to a close and the holiday season approaches, your calendar is likely filling up with celebrations, shopping lists, and year-end festivities. The...more
The role of video marketing has evolved significantly over the last decade, and many law firms have already recognized the power and potential it holds for client engagement and trust-building. In a digital era where visual...more
Fall is here! Along with the new season, I look forward to the leaves changing, sweater weather, and budget season for your law firm! Maybe it’s overwhelming, but it’s also a little exciting to think about what you can...more
July 12, 2023 | Blog I still have a little trauma from this time of year: Budgeting Season. Despite the fact I love numbers and pouring over spreadsheets, the firm-wide marketing budget process is a beast unlike any other....more
June 7, 2023 | Blog Measuring and monitoring business performance is critical to the success of your law firm, and there are dozens of K.P.I.s that can be used by marketing professionals. But first, what is a K.P.I.?...more
It’s budget season – one of the toughest times for law firm client development leaders because they are asked to allocate a finite amount of dollars across a seemingly limitless range of possibilities. The job is made even...more
Outside counsel is an integral part of the legal industry. Sometimes companies hire law firms to handle the entirety of a legal issue or dispute, while other times they retain outside counsel only for specific questions or...more
I love doing these annual posts, as it gives me a chance to go back and reflect on my predictions, both what came to pass and what never materialized....more
Last week’s post (The Dollars are in the Details) was the second of this series. It offered a strong recommendation that firms adopt high-level strategic account management (SAM) programs, which require budget considerations...more
Last week’s post (At the Expense of Marketing & Sales: Building a Better Budget) offered critical thinking tips for what to include – or not include – in a firm’s marketing and sales budget. Today’s high-level marketing and...more
The most common six-word phrase in use at law firms? “What charge code do I use?” Perhaps I exaggerate to make a point. But if you’ve led a department or practice group at a law firm, you’ve heard these words often and know...more
As the first quarter of the year comes to a close, it’s a good idea to take stock of how the execution of your marketing plan is going so far. Don’t have a formal marketing plan? You need one. An annual marketing plan helps...more
Budget season is in full swing or possibly even winding down if your firm is ahead of the game. You are likely budgeting for a number of important marketing and business development-focused projects for next year. Is one of...more
Move over, Halloween and Thanksgiving: It’s law firm budget season. Although budgeting is never a particularly fun exercise, creating the 2022 law firm marketing budget brings with it enduring baggage from the COVID-19...more
On May 12, Schwabe collaborated with Moss Adams to host a virtual roundtable that explored legal realities around owning and operating a hemp business in Oregon. Schwabe attorneys Lisa Schaures and Joe Hobson were joined by...more
“One of the blessings of COVID,” said the head of Business Development at a South Africa law firm, “is that it disrupted and improved the way we communicate.” Although the words “blessings of COVID” are a bit jarring, she’s...more
As if defending a marketing budget within the law firm was not already hard enough, now CMOs are doing it within a time of unprecedented uncertainty. How do you move forward with putting together a marketing budget — and...more
The decision is made: your firm is going to dive in - create a new website or redesign your existing one. I hope you had a chance to read my teammate Amanda Peth’s blog Lessons Learned: Website Redesign (Part 1) about when...more