A lot of discussion about
how smaller law firms can use document assembly — see for example this article — isn't particularly exciting.
Last week I covered
how small law firms and solos mistakenly try to appear bigger than they really are.
A sponsored message from Clio CEO Jack Newton about
how small law firms can learn some business management and innovation ideas from tech startups.
Not exact matches
FSB discuss
how small firms are tackling unemployment and welcome the reforms to employment
law.
From the biggest
firm in downtown to the
smallest rural
law office, exercising a measure of control over
how you are perceived by the public is incredibly important, and not prohibitively difficult.
For more on
how to use them, listen to the creator of this spreadsheet, Mary Juetten, on The Lawyerist Podcast, get her book, Small Law Firm KPIs: How to Measure Your Way to Greater Profits, and read our series on Metrics that Matter to Small Law Fir
how to use them, listen to the creator of this spreadsheet, Mary Juetten, on The Lawyerist Podcast, get her book,
Small Law Firm KPIs:
How to Measure Your Way to Greater Profits, and read our series on Metrics that Matter to Small Law Fir
How to Measure Your Way to Greater Profits, and read our series on Metrics that Matter to
Small Law Firms.
Here's
how: Elefant eyeballs each bar's Web site so you don't have to, looking for and hot - linking specific research,
law practice management and ethics tools that can save solos and
small firms time and money.
The conference's executive sponsor is
How to Manage A
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I believe we are the ideal platform to help even out the playing field, so
small to midsize
law firms can compete with the large
firms and display
how they can deliver the same level of service.
Mary Juetten co-founded the Evolve
Law community of early legal tech adopters, and wrote
Small Law Firm KPIs:
How to Measure Your Way to Greater Profits.
Among
small law firms, I noticed some standout figures that revealed just
how much (or
how little) time attorneys are spending on tasks other then the practice of
law.
In her new book,
Small Law Firm KPIs: How to Measure Your Way to Greater Profits, Mary Juetten makes the case for why all small firms should use key performance indica
Small Law Firm KPIs:
How to Measure Your Way to Greater Profits, Mary Juetten makes the case for why all
small firms should use key performance indica
small firms should use key performance indicators.
But if this is true,
how can one possibly ask all of the
small law firms to do this.
A KPI is a quantifiable value which shows
how well a
firm is achieving its key objectives, but most
small law firms don't take advantage of using them.
Any thoughts on
how Twitter might become a killer app for
small, local
law firms would be appreciated.
If pro bono is an important part of your
law firm, showing public support for the attorneys who are giving their time through annual awards or even
small email shout - outs will prove
how seriously you take volunteering.
She is the author of
Small Law Firm KPIs:
How to Measure Your Way to Greater Profits.
Siskind tells the story of
how he set up one of the very first
law firm websites 20 years ago (two large
firms were ahead of him, but he was the first
small firm).
No matter what stage your legal practice is in, no matter what budget you're working with, no matter
how big or
small your goals are, there's always something you can to do move your
law firm closer to the future you want.
For more details on
how ATL is planning to expand its solo and
small - firm coverage and programming, see its post: Small Law On ATL Is
small -
firm coverage and programming, see its post:
Small Law On ATL Is
Small Law On ATL Is Huge.
If your practice is interested in exploring a purchased lead solution, contact one of our experts today, or learn more about
how to get the most out of your inbound leads in our free playbook, Legal Marketing 101 — A Guide for
Small Law Firms.
Pennsylvania Bar Institute «Drafting Fundamental Estate Planning Documents» (October 1996; May 1999; April 2001; May 2002) «
How to Draft for the Marital Deduction» (July 1998) «Using the Web for Research» (Transact 1999: Technology Transforms Transactions; September 1999) «The Internet for Pennsylvania Lawyers» (4th Annual Solo and
Small Firm Practice Conference, March 1997) «Internet Resources for Estate Practitioners» (Estate
Law Institute; November 2003, November 2004, January 2006) «Abrogating Common
Law Marriage» (Estate
Law Institute, November 2004) «
How2 Practice Estate and Trust
Law» (March 2008)
With that in mind, I have undertaken a further,
small, piece of research looking at
how various lateral hiring policies have affected
law firm financial variables over time, and the results are quite intriguing.
My team at
How to Manage a
Small Law Firm and I work directly with lawyers across the country to help them achieve success as they define it.
ALBANY, NY (05/12/2010)(readMedia)-- To help the growing number of attorneys who are starting their own
law firms, the New York State Bar Association Law Practice Management Committee will present «Starting Your Own Practice,» a continuing legal education (CLE) program designed to provide attorneys with a wide - ranging blueprint on how to establish, operate and build successful solo or small firm practic
law firms, the New York State Bar Association
Law Practice Management Committee will present «Starting Your Own Practice,» a continuing legal education (CLE) program designed to provide attorneys with a wide - ranging blueprint on how to establish, operate and build successful solo or small firm practic
Law Practice Management Committee will present «Starting Your Own Practice,» a continuing legal education (CLE) program designed to provide attorneys with a wide - ranging blueprint on
how to establish, operate and build successful solo or
small firm practices.
One of the most difficult things about running a
small law firm is learning
how to deal with swings in income.
In June 2016, Thomson Reuters surveyed
small law firm customers on KPIs and benchmarking to support my upcoming book, Small Law Firm KPIs: How to Measure Your Way to Greater Pro
small law firm customers on KPIs and benchmarking to support my upcoming book, Small Law Firm KPIs: How to Measure Your Way to Greater Profi
law firm customers on KPIs and benchmarking to support my upcoming book, Small Law Firm KPIs: How to Measure Your Way to Greater Prof
firm customers on KPIs and benchmarking to support my upcoming book,
Small Law Firm KPIs: How to Measure Your Way to Greater Pro
Small Law Firm KPIs: How to Measure Your Way to Greater Profi
Law Firm KPIs: How to Measure Your Way to Greater Prof
Firm KPIs:
How to Measure Your Way to Greater Profits.
Shameless plug: If you're attending Legaltech or any part of the expanded Legalweek, consider attending one of the two panels I'll be on as part of the LegalSmallFirm track: «Challenges Identified by
Small Law Firms —
How They Threaten Your Success,» on Tuesday, Jan. 31, at 2:15 p.m., and «All Things Implementation: Improving Technology Management in the
Small Firm,» on Wednesday, Feb. 1, at 10:30 a.m.
Aaron: I think
how it translates,
how it ties into kind of the Gary Vaynerchuk model and
how it's useful for lawyers to at least think about
how they could be doing some stuff is there is now this trend in Facebook, Instagram videos of 1 to 2 minute videos with interesting video content and overlaid text that's kind of rapid fire overlaid text and you can convey by combining interesting visual content with well written but very short text content, you can convey a fair amount of information in just dozens of words, not even hundreds or thousands, and those at least in the current of multimedia online content are the kinds of things that are performing really well on the internet do a great job of conveying a
small amount of information and are interesting for readers and catch them where they are because it is absolutely a fact that no one wants to read a
law firm's full length press release about a case they won or an award an attorney got or whatever.
I once asked a senior woman lawyer
how she was adjusting to working in a
small boutique
firm after spending most of her career at a large national
law firm.
I liked
how a panel on business continuity at the recent
Law Society Solo and
Small Firm Conference emphasized the mundane over the... [more]
MyShingle.com's Carolyn Elefant interviews Jay Foonberg, the guru of solo and
small -
firm lawyers and author of
How to Start and Build a
Law Practice.
This article is intended to be a short guide on
how to maximize Twitter as a resource for the practicing attorney or
small law firm.
Mary Juetten, founder of Traklight.com and author of
Small Law Firm KPIs:
How to Measure Your Way to Greater Profits, discussed how to use KPIs, their benefits and exposed the number lawyers in the room who don't use this tool to help with understanding and predicting their earnings, during her presentation called «Being profitable: Measuring what matters to your bottom line,» given at the Small Law Firms and the Business of Success event at Thomson Reuters in Toronto Nov.
How to Measure Your Way to Greater Profits, discussed
how to use KPIs, their benefits and exposed the number lawyers in the room who don't use this tool to help with understanding and predicting their earnings, during her presentation called «Being profitable: Measuring what matters to your bottom line,» given at the Small Law Firms and the Business of Success event at Thomson Reuters in Toronto Nov.
how to use KPIs, their benefits and exposed the number lawyers in the room who don't use this tool to help with understanding and predicting their earnings, during her presentation called «Being profitable: Measuring what matters to your bottom line,» given at the
Small Law Firms and the Business of Success event at Thomson Reuters in Toronto Nov. 2.
Read about the indicia of collaboration — and
how to overcome them — in Ray Leclair's space - sharing presentation, delivered at the
Law Society of Upper Canada's Solo and
Small Firm Conference in June 2014.
Summary: Scott Limmer and Oscar Michelen, lawyers who watched their once thriving solo (Scott) and
small firm (Oscar)
law practices lose direction, discuss
how based on the principals of being authentic, giving value and building business relationships & networking they were able to analyze, reboot and grow their
law practices and offer practical advice on
how you can grow your solo or
small law practice too.
Once you become a client of our
law firm, you will find that our attorneys and staff are completely committed to achieving the best possible results for you, no matter
how big or
small your personal injury.
Here at MyCase, we strive to provide solo and
small firm attorneys with lots of useful advice and information on
how to efficiently and effectively run a successful
law practice.
We discussed the genesis of LawStudio,
how small - and mid-sized
law firms are using it, the trends that are driving the use of an application like LawStudio, and
how client and litigation demands have fueled the need for collaboration, among other topics.
And ABA Techshow 2014 is the perfect place for you to discover just
how different your solo or
small law firm can be when you selectively and intelligently incorporate new technologies into your day - to - day practice.
My team at
How to MANAGE a
Small Law Firm and I work directly with lawyers across the country to help them achieve success as they define it.
I'm also part of a group called
How To Manage A
Small Law Firm.
Official Clio Blog #ClioCloud9 Presents: Extending Clio with NetDocuments Come learn
how the cloud is leveling the technology playing field for
small and midsized
firms, completely changing the landscape of
how you practice
law and service your clients.
The
Law Society's Solo and
Small Firm Conference attracted 250 lawyers hungry to learn about practice management, marketing and
how technology can help.
I feel like I'm a businessperson first and an attorney and a
law firm owner second, so I'm always looking to see what are the trends in
small business, where are these things happening, and where are things moving and shaking, and
how can I get in on that action?
He has a thesis in his new book about
how kind of buyers or clients are taking control of the dynamics of the industry and as part of that, I think he and you advocate for lawyers and
small law firms, thinking more like businesses and thinking about clients as buyers and things like that, that we'll get into in the episode, but one of the topics that I think is interesting to talk about then is something we've brought up a few times in the past about kind of identifying your ideal client or crafting personas of your ideal clients that you can have a story of who you're looking for and
how to find them.
Understanding
how to fit in can help you succeed, whether it's a Bay Street
law firm or a
small rural practice.
We've seen people doing it in TBD
law, and in the larger
small -
firm community, and it's really exciting to see people try something new and then find out
how fulfilling it can be.
The point is we're looking for people who are forward thinking about
how small firm law practice can be better and different in the future.
Aaron Street: Unless you are a
small business attorney, I don't see
how other
law firms are really going to directly benefit from that community.