Publications

January 18, 2014

Financing Start-up Law Firms

By Dennis Duitch & Marcia W. Wasserman Los Angeles Daily Journal September 13, 1999 A decision has been made to leave a big firm with a handful of lawyers willing to take the entrepreneurial risk of starting a new Firm. Will clients follow? Will the best associates come on board? How soon can it happen? These are... Continue
January 12, 2014

Weekly Report 14-02

IF YOU’RE AMONG THE 50 MILLION AMERICANS WHO CURRENTLY SUFFER FROM SEASONAL ALLERGIES, prepare to suffer worse over the next few decades. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the impacts of global warming include the thriving of “super potent” allergen-producing plants evolving from continuously increasing carbon-dioxide levels. “By 2040, pollen counts are projected to... Continue
January 12, 2014

Marketing Trends And Techniques For Law Firms

By Dennis Duitch & Marcia W. Wasserman Los Angeles Daily Journal California Law Business May 8, 2000 In today’s rapidly changing business marketplace, clients are becoming increasingly sophisticated about the procurement of legal services. Loyalty of most clients to the firm has diminished, while clients are demanding better quality (as they perceive it), faster turnaround and discounted... Continue
January 1, 2014

Weekly Report 14-01

PREDICTIONS FROM RAY KURZWEIL – inventor & futurist with a 30-year track record of accurate predictions, Director of Engineering at Google, and described by Inc. Magazine as the “rightful heir to Thomas Edison”: (1)    Within five years: Google will have created a system to read every document on the web and every book for meaning, then provide... Continue
December 22, 2013

Weekly Report 13-52

 ON COMMON SENSE SAFETY:  A quarter of annual road deaths “are now linked to phone use,” according to the Nat’l Safety Council. While driving, some 660,000 still hold a phone to their ear, and 170,000 still text messages – the principal cause of ‘carnage on the roads.’ Even with hands-free systems, “a deeper problem is the extra cognitive... Continue