Managing a Law Firm

In Part One of his series on productivity in the modern global workplace, Paul Burton shares six strategies for leveraging distributed work environments.

HIPPA? HiPAA? HIPPO? Simple steps for teaching autocorrect settings to catch your most common spelling mistakes — and save you time.

You may be good, but you’re not unique. So how do you compete? Find a better market focus — a definable group that you have some honest connection and affinity with.

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How do you staff up during big cases and busy seasons and avoid ethics issues? Five ethics rules of engagement when outsourcing legal work.

Would you like a practice that's profitable and easy to manage? Ernest Svenson has a well-defined 12-step process for leveraging technology to create one.

I need to start by getting a chip off my shoulder: I am not Mrs. Wiggins, nor am I some out-of-work secretary looking for crotchety old-school attorneys to bark into a recorder and wait for me to type their words. Back in my bricks-and-mortar ...

In his book “Make Today Count,” John C. Maxwell famously said that every person needs to strive to make that happen. It is a wonderful way to live if practiced correctly. Making today count requires discipline — it requires understanding and ...

In “Why Lawyers Really Struggle with Work-Life Balance,” I gave six steps to building a practice that runs smoothly and allows you to have a life. Here we’ll discuss the fourth step, building better teams.

According to the 2018 Report on the State of the Legal Market by the Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute, the business environment for law firms is more challenging than ever with: Flat demand for legal services. Declining profit margins ...