Greg George, Managing Partner of top security firm GTI Advisors Threat Management Practice Group has created a comprehensive due diligence report — among his many recommendations, he suggests that businesses consult a law firm  - is your law firm ready to answer that call?  SECURITY may be a lucrative future-oriented practice area awaiting your firm.

I recommend:

1)  Check out GTI Advisors Threat Management Practice Group

2)  Download (free) and read Beyond Due Diligence

3) Note the section "Qualified Legal Counsel Is Worth Every Penny" on page 18.

4) Discuss this in your firm and explore an appropriate strategy before you are left in the dust by forward thinking firms that will.

Footnote: Determine if you are the cobbler with no shoes (when it comes to security) — perhaps your law firm could use a few of the amazing ideas in this document as well.

Note:  For international clients, this piece is clearly written for American audiences but I believe the vast majority of the content will be useful regardless of your location.

Originally posted at Amazing Firms, Amazing Practices. Please visit http://www.gerryriskin.com/.

My Edge International colleague and good friend, Ed Wesemann, has some fun providing tongue-in-cheek advice for new law firm associates on how to develop business.

Enjoy, and better yet have your associates look at this.

Originally posted at Amazing Firms, Amazing Practices. Please visit http://www.gerryriskin.com/.

We are very proud of our latest Edge International Review.    For a complete downloadable version (or just the articles you want) click on the cover or go to EdgeInternationalReview.com

If you have any questions , comments or suggestions, please shoot me a note.

(You can also check out our Edge International web site at Edge-International.com)

Originally posted at Amazing Firms, Amazing Practices. Please visit http://www.gerryriskin.com/.

(The video is 8 minutes - watch at least the first full minute then more if it grabs you)

Law firm leaders

You don't need to embrace social media or love technology or even be a gadget freak to have a peak at how we'll all read magazines and papers soon… I thought a second reason to show you this was to have you think about the publications your firm produces from articles to brochures.

I am not suggesting you blaze the trail but you had better have your design team monitor the progress of this technology and make it available to you as soon as it is affordable.

Gerry

PS  I will be asking our own team to look hard at this for future versions or our Edge International Review which will be published soon.

SOURCE: Digital Magazines: Bonnier Mag+ Prototype excerpt:

This conceptual video is a corporate collaborative research project initiated by Bonnier R&D into the experience of reading magazines on handheld digital devices. It illustrates one possible vision for digital magazines in the near future, presented by our design partners at BERG.

Originally posted at Amazing Firms, Amazing Practices. Please visit http://www.gerryriskin.com/.

Tom Peters gave me the thrill of my life when he endorsed my book The Successful Lawyer.  I have revered this genius over his many masterpieces starting with In Search of Excellence and then so many more amazing literary, video and blogging contribution

So, law firm leaders, as you think about excellence in 2010, enjoy this message delivered by one of my heroes, Tom Peters (in under 2 minutes).

I hope you'll take hours to reflect on its meaning in your context.

Gerry

PS  If you have partners who won't look at the video , here's a transcript

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Take a few moments at the beginning of your next (executive, practice group, industry group, client team) meeting and watch this piece from Australia's George and Margaret Beaton (Beaton research and Consulting).  They have been friends for a long time and not only built an amazing high end consultancy but have done it with panache and imagination.  You will see some data that will act as a catalyst for the thinking of your leadership team.

Enjoy:  The Big (Legal) Picture video

Punchline:  The legal Profession absolutely refuses to stay the same so don't let your partners treat it like it will.

Pat Lamb's added this commentary at his awesome Blog,  In Search of Perfect Client Service:   You'll like irrelevance even less

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It is a proud day for all of us at Edge to add such a distinguished partner.  After law school, Jordan articled with one of Canada's leading law firms and then opted for a career in legal journalism culminating with more than 10 years as editor-in-chief of the Canadian Bar Associations distinguished well respected National magazine and executive editor of CCCA Magazine

Now Jordan joins us to offer both strategic and tactical advice to lawyers, law firms and legal organizations, centered around his very clear vision of a legal service marketplace undergoing massive and irreversible change.

Among his other accomplishments, Jordan is an award-winning blogger.  He has been writing since January 2008 at Law21: Dispatches From a Legal Profession on the Brink, where he chronicles the extraordinary changes underway in the legal profession. He is an Honourary Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management and Chair of the College's InnovAction Awards, which recognize and reward creativity and innovation in legal services delivery.

Welcome aboard Jordan !  (See his biography on our Edge International site)

Originally posted at Amazing Firms, Amazing Practices. Please visit http://www.gerryriskin.com/.

PUNCHLINE: If Social Media matters, then it matters to law firms because everything that matters to society in general must matter to law firms sooner or later.  Watch this and make your own decision.

Originally posted at Amazing Firms, Amazing Practices. Please visit http://www.gerryriskin.com/.