Managing a Law Firm
There is a timeless truth in our profession that every attorney eventually confronts: being a brilliant legal tactician does not automatically make you a successful business owner. Running a modern law firm requires an entirely separate skillset—one that balances financial precision, operational scaling, and team culture.
If you are ready to stop firefighting administrative tasks and start building a highly profitable, scalable enterprise on your own terms, explore our complete, interactive master handbook: Managing a Law Firm: The Modern Partner’s Blueprint.
For targeted strategies, quick operational toolkits, and curated expert columns, browse our deep-dive archives directly below.
Any nontrivial decision presents a tournament of reasons. Choosing document drafting tools for law practice is a classic case, featuring a complex dance of circumstances, candidates and considerations. This is the third in a series of short ...
Marc Lauritsen - January 26, 2016
Question: My secretary is sick and absent from work a lot. Yet I need someone here every day to help me. What can I do? If your assistant is missing in action more than you like, you can find yourself in a ...
The Editors - January 25, 2016The more I conduct client feedback interviews, the more I realize how few quality contacts lawyers make with their clients outside the substantive legal work being done. The number of times clients fumble for the name of a lawyer who is actively ...
Sally J. Schmidt - January 21, 2016
Without the right management tools in your firm, chaos, stress and confusion often reign. If you feel out of control ( Dustin Cole - January 20, 2016
A law practice in chaos is nearly every lawyer's biggest fear. (As if you needed to be told, right?) In the first post in his three-part series "Getting a Grip," Dustin Cole explained how a ...
Dustin Cole - January 14, 2016
Upgrading your networking skills is always a good idea, but what about your technology? We asked our legal technology and marketing dream team, “How do you use technology to track and connect with all of those great contacts you’ve ...
Joan Feldman - December 31, 2015
For years I’ve heard the mantra, “It’s all about relationships.” At the risk of casting an unwelcome pall in the middle of the holidays, bear with me while I gore this venerable ox, a quaint vestige of the 25-year seller’s market that ended in ...
Mike O'Horo - December 30, 2015Last spring at ABA TECHSHOW 2015, Philippe Doyle Gray presented his method for using Evernote to manage contacts, especially during events. For today’s installment of “Connect the Dots: A Lawyer’s Guide to Networking,” we asked him to ...
Philippe Doyle Gray - December 28, 2015
Knowing it is against many of our natures to get out there and network, it is easy to see why many solos shirk the cocktail hour at the bar meeting, or slip into the back row of a CLE presentation and out again as soon as the hour is up. But if ...
Megan Zavieh - December 22, 2015
This fall, Attorney at Work collaborated with MILOfest to conduct the "2015 Apple at Law Users Survey," aimed at getting a snapshot of how law firms are using Apple products. The results are in, so we asked GlobalMac IT's Tom Lambotte to run ...
Tom Lambotte - December 17, 2015
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