Managing a Law Firm

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Make 2018 More Productive With This HBR Strategy

A few months back, Harvard Business Review published a terrific article titled "In a Distracted World, Solitude Is a Competitive Advantage." The authors reference numerous sources, from Yoda (Star Wars) to Eric Schmidt (Google) to David Rock ...

Paul H. Burton - December 6, 2017
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A Pre-Year-End Checklist for Solos and Small Firms

Use this small law firm year-end checklist to quickly assess your firm's practice systems and ethics risks — and plan to improve them for the new year.

Megan Zavieh - December 5, 2017
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Best Ways to Upgrade Your Technology in 2018

What's worthy of your technology investment next year? We asked the practice management technology pros to recommend one good way for lawyers to upgrade their tech in 2018. Here's wise advice from practice management technology pros Heidi ...

Joan Feldman - December 1, 2017
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Five Tax Benefits to Working From a Home Office

Some lawyers choose to limit overhead by working from home. They may arrange for supplemental virtual services and conference room access. While not every practice area may lend itself to working from home, technology has made this a more common ...

Theda C. Snyder - November 24, 2017
LawPay Has the Tools You Need to Run Your Business

With LawPay, you get the tools you need to manage earnings and cash flow, and track key financial metrics. LawPay’s new reporting dashboard lets you see where your firm’s payments stand at a glance. Quickly and easily see where revenue is coming ...

LawPay - November 16, 2017
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Disrespectful Clients Don’t Get to Stay Clients

You know what feels good? Firing a client. My firm was hired to help a client with multiple applications for registering their intellectual property. We tell every client there’s no guarantee that we’ll be able to get them everything they ...

Ruth Carter - November 15, 2017
Year-End Money Moves for Lawyers
Three Smart Year-End Money Moves

Think back 10 or 11 months … remember your New Year’s financial resolutions? Save more, spend less, be smarter with taxes, and construct a succession plan for your practice — we all made them. Then, client demands, partner requests, deal ...

Ryan McPherson - November 14, 2017
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Ethically Outsourcing Social Media Management

It's a given that you need to delegate or outsource some tasks if you want to grow as a firm. There are only so many hours in a day, and if you try to do absolutely everything yourself, it will mean limited revenues and likely unbearable hours ...

Megan Zavieh - November 8, 2017
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Running With the Experts: Takeaways From the 2017 Futures Conference

Last week in Atlanta, the College of Law Practice Management's (COLPM) annual Futures Conference, "Running With the Machines," explored the current state of artificial intelligence in law practice — and a glimpse into the future. We asked ...

Joan Feldman - November 3, 2017
Quick Parts
Video: Saving Recyclable Text as Quick Parts in Microsoft Word

Let's face it, a lot of the text in legal documents has been recycled from previous documents. If you're tired of searching for then copying and pasting common elements like signature blocks or notary acknowledgments from old documents, only to ...

Deborah Savadra - November 1, 2017
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