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Law Firm Operations

Using a Law Firm Business Plan to Align Yourself With Success

How and Why You Should Create a Law Firm Business Plan Whether you’re setting out on your own to start a new law firm, or you’re looking to improve the organization you’re already part of, treating your firm like an actual business is absolutely essential to its success. Compared to

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Matter Management

The Importance of UI and Why It Matters to Lawyers

A User Interface, or UI, is the series of visual elements that you interact with in a software program such as buttons, icons, screens, and pages. All of these elements contribute to the functionality and usability of the application. A successful UI has to be equally appealing to the eye

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Law Firm Operations

3 Ways to Find Valuable Mentors at Every Stage of a Legal Career

“You need to find yourself a mentor,” is a phrase you as an attorney have heard at some point in your law career, and likely many times over. It’s something that’s often taught as an informal part of your law school curriculum, and repeated throughout a young lawyer’s budding career.

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Matter Management

Getting Your Legal Team to Buy Into TQM

“All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride” – William Edwards Deming

The principles of total quality management (TQM), spearheaded by William Edwards Deming decades ago, continue to be exceptional tools for practicing attorneys. Given the competitive landscape currently facing the legal community, it is essential for

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Billing, Payments & Accounting

Task Management – Streamlining Your Firm’s Workflow

What are the unique steps your firm takes to complete tasks?

By now you’ve processed hundreds of new clients. You perform the same steps for every new client, but have no way of knowing their status in the process. With all the work you have on your plate, there is

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Reporting & Analytics

Work in Progress – is it worth it, now you know…

There are so many benefits to keeping track of your time: efficiency, organization, and responsibility. Once you figure out where specifically you are spending your time, you can then determine where improvements in your time management need to be made. Budgeting your time and allotting more time for higher priority

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Matter Management

Making Your Move to “The Cloud”

Unless you’ve been living off the grid, by now you’ve most likely heard the term that has been catching fire around the world: “the cloud.” But what is it exactly and how are these “tech-savvy” people using it? As it turns out, you are probably using “the cloud” on a

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Matter Management

All Of Your Client Data Is In The Cloud … Is This Safe?

At long last, the legal sector is getting with the program. Adoption of legal technology is on the rise. Lawyers are starting to use legal practice management software to enhance the productivity of their practices. With cloud-based applications, lawyers can easily store and access all of their legal documents and

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Law Firm Operations

Show Your Clients Some Love: Invoice Level Discounts

As an attorney, you are trained to keep track of every minute and bill accordingly. But what if you decide that you don’t want to bill your client for the extra time it has taken your new associate to research a topic related to their case? Or perhaps you’re feeling

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