After weeks in relative isolation, working nonstop from home or worried about not having enough work, the time may be right for planning your retirement. Ida Abbott has questions that will help you consider your future.

Interview | Immigration and divorce lawyer — and social media star — Marina Shepelsky. 

Creating an effective attorney bio for your website can have an immediate, positive impact on both your personal book of business and your firm’s bottom line. A personal bio helps interested parties get to know you and validate your legal prowess, long before they pick up the phone to call. But how can you make […]

Question: Do law firms really need 100,000-plus square feet of office space anymore? Will coffee shops, home offices and airports be the law offices of the future, especially as the workforce gets younger? We asked the experts from the Association of Legal Administrators for the scoop on size. Todd Summerfelt, Chief Operating Officer at Carney Badley Spellman, and Rick Thorning, HQ Operations Manager at Perkins Coie, take a look at the future. ... READ MORE

Consider these five factors, when it's time to hire a law firm's first marketing or business development professional.

Go-bags aren't just for surviving a zombie apocalypse. You may simply need one ready for out-of-town meetings or weekend depositions. Check out these stylish choices.

With anxiety levels soaring, how can we help ourselves and others? Here are five ideas from Jamie Spannhake on reducing the negative effects of today's world on your mind and body.

Using a letter of closure at the end of a client engagement varies greatly firm to firm — and at times among lawyers within the same firm. Among those who don't use them, the excuses I hear include, “We do a lot of flat-fee, in-and-out kinds of things (simple wills or small business formations) and the effort simply isn’t worth it.” Or, “Most of our work is for repeat clients and we’re certainly not about to say good-bye to them.” Or even, “These matters never really close.”

Product Spotlight | NetDocuments. A document management system isn’t just where firms store and organize documents — it’s where work happens.

Veteran trial lawyer Robert Katzberg, author of the new book "The Vanishing Trial," on the key to achieving success and happiness in the business of law today.