Managing Your Legal Practice

Vanity Statistics Won’t Help You Grow

To truly succeed, a law practice can’t rely on growth that results only from isolated circumstances, seasonal trends or provisional impulses. Instead, you establish continuity and sustainability by developing a strategic growth plan, and by ...

Clayton Dodds - May 19, 2016
Nothing But the Ruth
Expand Your Mind: Go to Mainstream Conferences

If you are a solo practitioner, of counsel, or a partner at a law firm, you have at least two roles: attorney and entrepreneur. Your time and energy are split between performing client work and making sure new business is coming in the ...

Ruth Carter - May 17, 2016
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It’s Not You, It’s Me: Why Law Firm Advertising Fails

Lawyers have been conditioned, from time immemorial, to believe that successful marketing means broadcasting superiority. You must have won more false awards, and higher verdicts, and would have established further contrived rankings. To a ...

Jared Correia - May 12, 2016
Legal Technology Product Beat
ABA TECHSHOW Down-Low: Upgrades Unleashed at 2016 Conference

If you’re a nerdy lawyer, ABA TECHSHOW is where you go to geek out. (Wait, did I say that out loud?

Jared Correia - March 24, 2016
The Truth Is in Here: Lawyer Lessons Buried in ‘The X-Files’

If this sounds like a thinly veiled excuse to write an article about "The X-Files" that is only tangentially related to law practice management, well, it is. So, sue me. (See what I did there.) Jared Correia - March 10, 2016

Fork in the Road: Do You Take the Job, or Stay Solo?

You’ve got a nice little Saturday going: You didn’t get the job you wanted coming out of law school, but you’ve been running your own solo law practice for a few years now, and it feels like you’re starting to turn the corner. You’ve kept up on ...

Jared Correia - October 13, 2015
A TechHit One-Two Punch: SimplyFile and MessageSave

TechHit is a San Francisco company that builds applications emanating from Microsoft Outlook. This approach works especially well in the legal field, where most lawyers still prefer, or are forced, to use Microsoft Office. While an impressive ...

Jared Correia - August 26, 2015
data redundancy
5 Ways Support Staff Are Instrumental to Your Practice

For every attorney-paralegal relationship that is built on a foundation of mutual respect and admiration, there are several razed under constant consternation, engendered by a sense of entitlement on the lawyer's part. For every long-standing ...

Jared Correia - July 23, 2015
Dressed Down: What Does Being ‘Professional’ Really Mean?

It’s something you hear when you’re starting your career (and something you’ll hear constantly, throughout your career, if you’re a nonconformist): "You have to be more professional." Of course, that begs the question, just how does one "be ...

Jared Correia - July 9, 2015
Social Media Marketing
Crushin’ It: 10 Social Media Misconceptions, Revised

Let’s run down some common misconceptions about social media, and rotate the conversation.

Misconception 1: “Oh No, My Privacy!” Revision: Connect Widely
Now, in case you hadn’t heard, this is ...

Jared Correia - May 18, 2015
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