Managing a Law Firm

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Mining Document Metadata: Pointers

During discovery, document metadata can prove just as important as the visible contents in the document. That’s why legal teams need to comb every document for metadata. (It’s also why many legal teams use metadata “scrubbers” on documents they ...

Luigi Benetton - May 3, 2017
Track These Performance Metrics to Improve Client Relations

Corporate clients are increasingly savvy about performance metrics — often more so than the lawyers whose work product is being measured. Many lawyers are unaware of the categories and parameters clients are using to evaluate them. And unless ...

Jeremy W. Richter - May 2, 2017
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Office 365 Productivity Tips for Lawyers

How can you get the most from Microsoft Office 365's new features? Curious about all the new apps and add-ins popping up in the Office Store? For this edition of Tech Tips Friday, practice management technology experts Heidi Alexander, ...

Joan Feldman - April 28, 2017
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Five Ways to Spring Clean Your Personal and Professional Life

Jamie Spannhake | Here are five ways to spring clean your personal and professional life.

Jamie Spannhake - April 21, 2017
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Stone Soup: A Client Development Metaphor

There is an old folk story that makes a fine metaphor for client development. In the tale, hungry strangers (read: the law firm client team) facilitate the people of a town (the team’s clients) giving them food (solving a problem and ...

Mike O'Horo - April 19, 2017
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A Solo’s Tips on Balancing Client Calls and Personal Time

If you’re a solo practitioner or in a small law firm, you are likely a slave to your smartphone, making sure clients can always reach you. As the managing partner at a small firm, I found it increasingly difficult to keep up with my clients' ...

Steven Palermo - April 14, 2017
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Zola and RPost Empower Lawyers with Certified E-Delivery Proof and Encryption

Zola Suite Launches RPost’s Services in its Law Practice Management Platform Zola Suite has announced that email open tracking, certified e-delivery proof, email encryption, and e-signatures are now built into its law practice management email, ...

Deborah Tesser - April 13, 2017
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CRM of the Crop: Lexicata Represents a Step Forward in Client Intake

Until recently, law firms have had to rely on generic business software for managing customer relations, including intake. Salesforce is the longtime leader in that category. Starting with Avvo’s release of Ignite, however, law firm-specific ...

Jared Correia - April 13, 2017
You Can’t Practice Law Without Math

A big part of a lawyer’s role is negotiation, and that means numbers. A lawyer has to be able to calculate the value of whatever is being negotiated. Case evaluation is part art and a lot of math. Pulling a number out of the air and hoping the ...

Theda C. Snyder - April 12, 2017
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Creative Goal Setting for Improving Your Solo Practice

It seems that every solo lawyer I meet has a list of things they would like to be doing better in their practice. Sometimes the motivating factor is business growth, sometimes it’s efficiency. At the heart of many “to do” items, though, is ...

Megan Zavieh - April 10, 2017
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