I'm a business person who was at Hewlett - Packard for 26 years and then helped to
run a law firm as an executive and CMO, and so I got involved on both sides of it, which is really helpful for what I do now.
Topics include
running a law firm as well as profitably exiting by selling a law practice.
We are seeing a lot of this already in the areas of document review and e-discovery, but automation will start to creep into other aspects of
running a law firm as well.
How to Manage a Small Law Firm helps solo attorneys grow their law firms by teaching them how to be an entrepreneur, to
run a law firm as a business, and learn effective leadership skills.
Not exact matches
But
as soon
as I got to college, I realized I had very important dreams and ambitions and I turned down a marriage proposal to a man who has his own successful
law firm and is
running for political office.
Approximately $ 700,000 came in «undisclosed bribes and kickbacks» from a scheme in which Mr. Silver used his influence
as speaker to induce real estate developers with «business for the state» to use a real estate
law firm run by an attorney who previously worked
as Mr. Silver's counsel in the Assembly, and which paid Mr. Silver for the referrals.
«Many small businesses, mom and pop shops, and small
law firms across New York are legally classified
as LLCs,» campaign strategist Rebecca Katz said in a statement that
ran in each of the three outlets.
Approximately $ 700,000 came in «undisclosed bribes and kickbacks» from a scheme in which Mr. Silver used his influence
as Assembly Speaker to «induce real estate developers with business before the State» to use a real estate
law firm run by an attorney who previously worked
as Mr. Silver's counsel in the Assembly, and which paid Mr. Silver for the referrals.
Gilder works
as a process server for a
law firm and never
ran for public office.
Under New York
law, an outside management company headed by an attorney must
run any
firm categorized
as a «reciprocal insurer,» such
as PRI.
As a member of the State Senate, I'll hold special interests accountable, and stand up to the Legislature's Trump - style agenda,» said Pilon, a former prosecutor who now
runs an injury
law firm.
Nick is caught between his father (Dabney Coleman), the founder of Pittsburgh's legendary
law firm Fallin & Associates, and Alvin Masterson (Alan Rosenberg), who
runs the
firm where Nick follows his passion
as a child advocate lawyer.
There are also big savings,
as simple wills at conventional
law firms run between $ 500 and $ 1,000.
Today, the schemes are often
run by unscrupulous Wall Street investment
firms that are unloading portfolios of foreclosed homes and «threatening communities of color,»
as well
as immigrants, according to a report issued Thursday by the nonprofit National Consumer
Law Center.
... any county with a population of 200,000 or more may regulate or prohibit the
running at large of dogs within said county, and cause such dogs
as may be
running at large to be impounded... Any person,
firm or corporation who violates any rule or regulation... shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished
as provided by the
laws of this state in any court of competent jurisdiction, provided that in the case of continuing offenses, each day on which the offense occurs shall constitute a separate offense.
So while this
law student initiative might, in the long
run help cure the problem of diversity at the Supreme Court (by ensuring a larger minority representation at large
firms that handle Supreme Court cases), the growing consolidation of the Supreme Court bar still troubles me -
as much or more than the lack of diversity.
I
run the library of a Vancouver
law firm so my «go to» libraries (as you might expect) are the B.C. Courthouse Libraries and the University of British Columbia's Law Libra
law firm so my «go to» libraries (
as you might expect) are the B.C. Courthouse Libraries and the University of British Columbia's
Law Libra
Law Library.
As Toothman and Ross put it, «The distinction should be made between efforts to manage or
run the
law firm and those that are professional services rendered to the client.»»
Scalability — from the phone system to other information systems — is often the last thing on an attorney's mind
as they start a small or solo
law firm, especially if they haven't
run a business before.
Should the retiring family
law attorney be prominent, the other lawyers in the
firm run into the same problem
as in a criminal defense practice.
As an illustration of the value of authentication, consider the screenshots of excerpts from two email reputation reports below - the first was
run against a
law firm email alert that did not use authentication; the second is the report for an alert that did.
These are essential skills and areas of knowledge that may have formerly been learned on the job
as a young associate, but now that so many recent graduates are hanging out their own shingles immediately after graduation and
firms are seeking young lawyers who need less training and can hit the ground
running,
law schools need to pick up the slack and provide this education.
And while many small
law firms often identify themselves more
as lawyers, less so
as business people, the reality is that they are indeed
running small businesses.
There is no rule of thumb
as to how often the technology
running a
law firm website should be upgraded.
As your
law firm faces the end of summer, your next client could be facing their first
run - in with the
law.
As just noted,
law firms whose lawyers blog (even if they blog under the
firm banner)
run the risk that if the lawyer goes, so does the blog and its branding benefits.
But
as Jordan Furlong observes at
Law21 such knee - jerk reactions don't necessarily make good business sense since jettisoning associates indiscriminately can lead to a loss of top notch legal talent that can hurt a
firm in the long
run (indeed, intellectual «capital» is perhaps a
law firm's most valuable asset).
As a small business owner I understand the challenges
law firms face in trying to bring in clients while staying focused on
running your practice at the same time.
how you can
run a very lean
law firm and also invest in critical aspects of your business, such
as marketing, technology and your office
This article explains how you can
run a very lean
law firm and also invest in critical aspects of your business, such
as marketing, technology and your office.
We have been delighted to once again join CMS to help
run a workshop for students spending a week at the
firm as part of PRIME, an alliance of
law firms and legal departments, which gives school - age students from less privileged backgrounds access to quality work experience in the legal sector.
For just
as law firms can not be
run from Excel spreadsheets, neither are
law firm partners perfect economic elements.
When she started life
as a paralegal she had a bird's eye view into the way
law firms were
run.
Another is that they should be using a platform such
as — of course — Clio to make the delivery of legal services and the
running of a
law office
as effortless
as possible for both the
law firm and its clients.
David, when a professional management team comes into a
law firm, is it actually a better thing business-wise for the lawyers insofar
as they no longer have to
run a business which is usually not their core skill - set?
Guest post by George Murphy
As an attorney, you're probably too busy practicing
law or
running your
firm to spend time learning search engine marketing and actually handling your website's SEO / SEM efforts.
This reportedly sparked a «
run on the bank»
as more than 30 senior partners cashed in their partnership equity and moved to other
law firms with their clients (4).
But
as a practical matter, how does a
law firm run a Second Life practice?
Not only are some issues highly personal (most men do not want to hear about the challenges of continuing to breast - feed when you return to work) while others (such
as the
law firm culture) are difficult to raise without sounding like a criticism of how the
firm is
run.
There is some debate
as to whether the client needs to understand the finer nuances of the relationship between your
firm and the provider that will be hosting the
law office data when you
run a virtual practice.
It's not the first time this has been canvassed here on Slaw,
as John Gregory's post from earlier this year attests, but since I recently prepared materials for a webinar on social media
as evidence, and in the course of that started a trial
run of X1 Social Discovery (which is what the Department of Justice, RCMP, and at least two major Canadian
law firms are... [more]
Not that we need proof of that, but then
law firms will insist on trying to
run themselves
as if they are «normal» businesses (rather than flat, low - hierarchy collegial collectives) so these days I don't shy away from pointing out this curiosity.
And, although I've just
run out of hands, both
law firms and their clients are looking to in - source some or all e-discovery services
as a means of controlling costs (and sometimes quality also).
Cataloging all of the daily challenges that a solo attorney experiences while
running their
law firms is not
as helpful
as providing you with a prioritized list of issues and suggestions, so that is what I will do here.
E-discovery is becoming more
run of the mill with even small
law firms working on small matters accepting that the contents of their clients» computers are just
as important
as the contents of their filing cabinets.
But when you practice
law, send out invoices, create marketing material, and otherwise
run your
law firm, you are acting
as an employee for your
law firm, not
as an alter - ego of the business entity.
As time went on, the model provided tremendous lessons in consumer behavior, lawyer behavior and the economics of
running even a lean
law firm, but the model needed to adapt to become more economically viable.
«Suddenly poetry is
running wild across City
law firms as lawyers recognise that their stock in trade is also the raw material of sublime art.
Aaron Street: Yeah I mean I think this can be taken too far, so if you had an example like Brad where he only represents criminal defendants and therefore there's no risk of him having a conflict come through the site when he's getting actual information about actual cases, but you could see in a litigation, let's say a family
law lawyer, if their website were trying to collect information to provide tools
as both an intake and access to justice solution that you potentially
run into tremendous conflicts of interest problems there and I think obviously any lawyer considering pursuing this for their
firm should think through the implications of their particular situation, but I think what Brad's doing is awesome in the context of his criminal
law practice and I think there are versions of a similar model that could be used in something like your debt collection defense practice or a small business startup practice or an estate planning practice, but that doesn't mean that it's a model that should be replicated by every lawyer in every practice.
Low bono
firm Eden
Law Corporation takes this one step further by using the best legal technology options in the market to
run a paperless and virtual office, with staff working with clients from locations such
as hospitals and shelters.