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• Developing Clients Abroad–Global Rainmaking

  Below is my article from the July/August 2008 Issue of the American Bar Association’s Law Practice magazine.  Global Rainmaking Tips: Pointers on Developing Clients Abroad By Janet H. Moore As business becomes increasingly global, more lawyers…

• Communicating with Clients, Colleagues and Co-counel across Cultures

  Please join me in New York this Saturday, August 9 at 8:30 am at the ABA Annual Convention for a session on this topic.  I’ll be speaking and also moderating a panel of international lawyers who have…

• Staying in Touch with Home while on the Road

  This week finds me in New York and away from my family–twice.  NYC for three days, home for three days, and then back to NYC again.  Why didn’t I just stay put for the whole week? …

• More Virtual Client Meetings

  As travel costs rise, more clients are opting for virtual meetings, reports the New York Times this week. Improved videoconferencing technology–as well as the public’s growing comfort and familiarity with tools like wikis and online document sharing–have augmented…

• Increasingly Mobile Lawyers

  International lawyers have always practiced law away from the office. Mobility–and the tools needed for a truly mobile practice–are prerequisites to success. I remember nights in hotels in Buenos Aires, Bogota and other beautiful locations–evenings not spent enjoying…

• Turn Travel Snafus into Success

  Tonight I returned from Toronto–a stop which didn’t match my original itinerary.   My quick and easy international trip had morphed into a travel saga and, like many travelers nowadays, I had been redirected–several times. However, this travel snafu  had a silver…

• Currency Crunch: Getting Paid in Pounds, Pesos or Pulas

  With more clients located abroad, attorneys are increasingly being paid in foreign currency. Billing and receiving payment in foreign currency raises a host of questions, beginning when the client pays a retainer.  Some firms require that…

• Learn from Pink, Inc.

  Today I chuckled when I received a package from “Pink, Inc.” I met (virtually) Dan Pink after he launched his New York Times bestseller A Whole New Mind. Now, he’s turned out a new–albeit very different–book titled The Adventures of Johnny…

• Tackle the US Downturn: Expand Abroad

  Want to weather the US economic downturn?  Then, expand abroad…or so say the mega firms quoted in Wise in the Ways of the World, an article in the June issue of the ABA Journal. Business is booming abroad–and getting paid in…

• Grab a Reader’s Attention by the Throat

  Why bother to write an article if no one reads it? Too many lawyers think that merely writing and publishing an article somewhere–anywhere–helps their rainmaking.  These lawyers delight in checking off  “write/publish article” from their Rainmaking To Do List.  Yes, publishing…

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