Managing Your Legal Practice

Jared Correia | Have you seen Michael Keaton movie where he plays Ray Kroc in "The Founder," a late-life biopic of the great co-opter of McDonald’s? Now, you may be asking yourself: Why write about this movie in Attorney at Work? Excellent ...

Ask the head of most any law firm about the compensation for a given employee, you'll likely hear something like “$35 an hour” or “$75,000 a year.” Of course the dollar figure is correct but it does not represent total compensation.

Book Review | Steve Fretzin’s latest book, "Be THAT Lawyer," offers a treasure trove of advice for would-be and rising rainmakers.

Words that may seem harmless can sow dissonance and create tension. Here are some alternatives.

Confronted with mountains of heart-shaped boxes and an avalanche of sweetheart sales, it's only natural for some to ponder, "Who loves ya, baby?"

What does a legal consumer gain from a law firm name like Anderson & Jones? Nothing. Here's why all firms should be allowed to use a brand name.

Do you have $500? Good. You’re the proud owner of a new law firm! (Seriously, congratulations.) Thanks mostly to the spate of technology advances made possible by cloud services, it is cheaper to practice law than ever before, because lawyers ...

Whenever you spend a bunch of time with a group of people (like your family … ahem), you’re bound to become annoyed with them, at least some of the time. I have worked closely with solo and small firm lawyers for years now and I need an outlet, ...

Now, I’m not the sharpest tool in the machine shed, but even I’m not brave enough to try to build a buyer’s guide for law firm technology. In large part, that's because such a guide would be outdated as soon as it’s written down, a paper book ...

Lawyers are very secretive about their fees because, you know ... the NSA. Lawyers don’t post their fee structures to their websites, either, because, well, why would clients want to know that?