Do You Provide First Class Legal Services?
If you’d like to learn to make yourself invaluable to current and future clients, the latest addition to the PMAP Checkout Library can point the way. Although seemingly aimed at…
A Loaf of Bread, a Jug of Milk and an Uncontested Divorce?
What’s on your shopping list? Walmart in Canada is getting into the legal business. An article in the ABA Journal reported that a handful of Walmart locations in Toronto have…
5 Steps to Easy(ier) Legal Accounting
The Legal Technology Resource Center, a part of the ABA Law Practice Division, is now facilitating free webinars to help lawyers with practice management issues, and the next one, 5…
E-filing Giving You Fits? We’ve Got Help!
Unfortunately, e-filing is now mandatory and there's no going back. If you are struggling to develop the skills and procedures needed to implement e-filing in your office, or if you…
Has Decomposition Set In?
No, this is not a joke about how long it's been since I've posted regularly to this blog! When I think of decomposition my thoughts generally turn, at best, to…
Turns Out, It’s Really True
I first heard it when I was studying for the bar exam. My law school asked some young lawyers recently admitted to practice to come to one of our exam…
Draft Now, Send Later
Often, lawyers will put off drafting an email because they don’t have all the information needed to complete and send it. What they forget, or never knew to begin with,…
Policy & Procedure Manuals Make Training Easy
Large firms often have in house training programs to bring new employees up to speed on how the firm does things. Solos and small firms, on the other hand, seldom…
It’s Alive! The Last Word Rises from the Grave!
Do you feel like you work hard every day yet don’t accomplish the things that really need to be done? I’m hardly one to pontificate on this topic as I…
Give Your Clients a Roadmap
Yesterday I spoke at lunch to the Solo & Small Firm Section of the Birmingham Bar Association, so I thought today I'd share one of the practice management tips I…