Small Law Firm

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Law Firm Profits and Year-End Taxes: Avoiding a Surprise Tax Bill

Brooke Lively | How can you owe taxes if there wasn’t much cash left in the business account at the end of the year?

Brooke Lively - March 13, 2025
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Stop Wasting Time: How to Run More Efficient Law Firm Meetings

Process Improvement Tips | Most meetings are a colassal waste of time. Let's fix that.

David Skinner and Karen Skinner - March 6, 2025
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Email Delegation for Lawyers: 7 Steps to Reclaim Your Time

Process Improvement Tips | Here’s a step-by-step process for effectively delegating your email inbox.

David Skinner and Karen Skinner - February 6, 2025
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What is a Legal Assistant and How Can They help lawyers

How can a legal assistant prevent backlogs and priority conflicts in you law firm? Find out how they keep your law office running smoothly so attorneys can focus on practicing law. If you share a legal administrative assistant with two or more ...

Deborah Savadra - January 28, 2025
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Can Marketing Make Your Law Firm Vulnerable to Cyberattacks? Absolutely

The marketing objective is to get clients. The cybersecurity objective is to keep your data safe. Those two objectives are often at odds with one another.

Michael Maschke, Sharon Nelson and John Simek - January 23, 2025
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Got a Process for Your Processes? Create Law Firm SOPs in 5 Easy Steps

Without written processes, even a routine task can take longer than it should. But the biggest downside? You won’t be able to delegate work quickly and effectively.

David Skinner and Karen Skinner - January 22, 2025
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Law Firms Groaning at the Need to Incorporate Generative AI into Cybersecurity

In a never-ending game of cat and mouse, cybersecurity companies are using AI to help combat the world’s increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks.

Michael Maschke, Sharon Nelson and John Simek - January 14, 2025
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Finding Work-Life Balance as a Solo: Ethics Tips

If you ever worked in a large law firm (think BigLaw), it probably looked like balance would be much easier to achieve outside that institution. What a shock, then, to find out that work-life balance as a solo attorney is no easier to find, even ...

Megan Zavieh - January 13, 2025
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How Much Does It Cost To Start A Law Firm: A Guide for New Solo Practitioners

How much does it cost to start a law firm? We asked a few experts. Key Takeaways Starting a New Solo Law Firm? In case you hadn’t noticed, a lot of those new lawyers who can’t find jobs are hanging out a solo shingle. Add to that those lawyers ...

The Editors - January 8, 2025
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Lawyer Conflict Checks: 5 Tips to Tune Up Your Process

Karen Dunn Skinner and David Skinner | Here are five process improvement tips to help you handle conflict checks efficiently and ethically.

David Skinner and Karen Skinner - January 8, 2025
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