Upgrading Your Operations
In this month’s SuccessTips, we’re discussing:
- Five Tips on Hiring an SEO Firm for Your Law Practice
- Lawyers As Leaders: Is Your Personality Too Legal?
- Why I Love Paying Monthly Subscription Bills
- Concrete Strategies To Target Specific Work
- Lawyer Video / Website Of The Month
…Read MorePractice Development Quick Reads for September 2017
In this month’s SuccessTips, we’re discussing:
- Keeping It Practical: Tips on Pricing, Billing, and Client Communications
- How to Create a Networking Tickler System
- Is Texting Clients A Good Idea? Maybe, Maybe Not.
- Legal Research Services Vary Widely in Results, Study Finds
- Lawyer Video / Website Of The Month
…Read MorePractice Development Quick Reads For August 2017
In this month’s SuccessTips, we’re discussing:
- How To Stop Treating Conversation Like Cross-Examination
- 16 Good Things to Do with a Business Card (Yours and Theirs)
- Metrics that Matter to Small Law Firms
- ABA Issues Major Ruling on Ethics of Email and Electronic Communications
- Lawyer Website Of The Month
…Read MorePractice Development Quick Reads for June 2017
In this month’s SuccessTips, we’re discussing:
- How to Get Prospective Clients Off the Dime to Hire You
- No More Excuses for Not Scanning Your Documents
- How To Get Quoted and Featured in the Media
- Business Acronym of the Month: TL;DR
…Read MorePractice Development Quick Reads for May 2016
In my work with attorneys on how to grow their practices, I often start with the question: who are your the ideal clients? As tempting as the answer may be, it is rarely as simple as: “the ones who pay their bills”. Of course, the “right” clients should have a …Read More
Your staff – and by that I mean everyone on your team who helps you get your work done, from your secretary to the practice group associates you supervise – have many ideas on how the work process could be improved. The problem is that they’re rarely asked to share …Read More
Legal Knowledge Management (LKM) refers to the collection, organization, dissemination, and reuse of knowledge contained within documents and inside individuals’ heads, and it includes the development of standard forms, tools, and templates to streamline the delivery of service. Even though LKM is often thought of in the context of larger …Read More
After almost a decade of coaching lawyers to improve their time management, profitability and client service, I’ve heard hundreds of stories about little things not going right in the daily course of practice — for example in an interaction between attorney and paralegal. But I’d never experienced such a glitch …Read More
Aside from poor time management, one of the main reasons attorneys don’t get the help they want or need to improve their practice management is because they simply don’t ask for it. Why? We usually don’t ask because we’re embarrassed or insecure at some level. Fortunately, all it takes to …Read More
The immediate deadline. The call that needs to be made or returned before lunch. The pre-bills that have to be checked this afternoon. The case law that needs to be scoured so the motion can be finished up tonight. The filing that’s due in the morning. The mediation tomorrow afternoon. …Read More