Anatomy Of A Law Firm Merger

This book will help you decide when to consider a merger and how to make the many other decisions involved in completing the merger and ultimately intergrating the merged firm.

This revised and updated edition provides you and your firm with the expert advice on what you need to consider when contemplating a merger.

This book is a valuable resource for information on things to consider before and during the process of buying, selling, closing, and merging a law practice. The guide provides advice and tips on: the advantages of buying and selling a law practice; the ethical aspects of acquiring a law practice; valuation of a law firm; tax consequences of retiring a partner's interest in a law firm taxed as a partnership; merging law firms; selling a niche practice; business responsibilities in closing a law practice; the ethical aspects of winding down a law practice; file preservation; and ending client and employee relationships. The guide includes handy checklists, forms, and sample letters as well as several Rules from the ABA's Model Rules of Professional Conduct.

This book features valuable data from leading legal consulting firm Altman Weil's surveys on law firm performance. You can develop a compensation plan that conveys fairness, simplicity, and flexibility, striking perfect balance within your firm.

This newly revised third edition of the highly acclaimed Winning Alternatives to the Billable Hour: Strategies that Work, provides you with tools you can use in your practice to implement and evaluate alternative billing methods, including real case studies of lawyers and firms successfully using alternative billing to deliver value to both the client and the lawyer.

Anatomy of a Merger is a guide to handling a corporate acquisition negotiation successfully. Topics include the basic acquisition agreement; bargaining techniques applicable to substantive issues, and more.