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This webinar is designed to teach you what you didn't learn in law school about
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Not exact matches
The
firm runs professional development programs on everything from legal topics
like international tax
law and corporate bankruptcy to «soft skills»
like persuasive speaking.
He said that allowed him to pick people
like Law, who then was running a large law firm and also had worked in Halpin's administrati
Law, who then was
running a large
law firm and also had worked in Halpin's administrati
law firm and also had worked in Halpin's administration.
Most
law firms are not
run like a business.
They do not
like to ask for help or to admit that they do not understand some aspect of
running their
law firm or serving their clients.
When we've investigated such incidents in the past, we've typically found a scenario that
runs something
like this: an attorney (let's call him Bob) at the
firm (hereinafter, «Smith & Johnson») met someone («Joe») at an environmental
law conference, exchanged business cards with Joe, and then arranged for Joe's email address to be added to Smith & Johnson's CRM system.
More specifically, I'd
like to suggest you
run a secret shopper survey on your
law firm.
You have plenty of things to do (
like, you know,
run a
law firm), so maybe you haven't given your website a white - glove cleaning in awhile.
When I've written previously about key performance indicators (KPIs) in
law, I've emphasized the fact that —
like other techniques and technologies —
running a
law firm is a business; therefore, measurement is critical for success.
We asked them if they could create a
law firm for the specific purpose of serving persons with spinal cord injury, what would that
firm look
like: what kind of service would it need to provide, what kind of people would need to
run it?
Total Attorneys Inc., a Chicago - based company that provides services
like office management and business development for solo and small
firm lawyers,
runs a number of practice - specific blogs — from lemon
law to DUI.
Like with
running any other professional services business, legal plan providers must prioritize
firm infrastructure and operations alongside the actual practice of
law.
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.
Stringer, Lund, and Schneider
ran Pillsbury's legal department
like a private
law firm — even creating a «
firm» letterhead with attorneys» names.
Running a law firm is a lot like running a bu
Running a
law firm is a lot
like running a bu
running a business.
Bay Street
firms run their articling programs
like a well - oiled machine and provide a large chunk of the available spots, so it's no surprise that they're front of mind for
law school career counsellors, says Toronto lawyer Omar Ha - Redeye.
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.
I think that because I'm speaking with lawyers, and at the library, training them on different substantive areas of
law, but also helping them through their sort of practice management issues too, having that experience of
running a
firm and knowing what it's
like for them is obviously necessary.
Maybe you'll be more careful next time...» When outside lawyers and
law firms, unaccustomed to the risks of AFAs, started to accept such engagements they quickly realized that unless they
ran their legal matters
like professional projects they would be unprofitable.
She has a small, general practice
law firm, and sounds
like she is
running it
like a business, partly due to the help she has gotten from Kelli Hoskins, a business coach.
But
like most things, there is a right way and wrong way when it comes to
running a home - based
law firm.
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This is especially true when it comes to changing things
like how
law firms are
run, billing methods, practice management and more.
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That being said, in my opinion, opening up the ownership of
law firms to persons outside the legal profession, and, in particular, opening up
law firms to the scrutiny of people
like analysts and public investors, will lead to those
firms to being better
run.
Larry Bodine
ran an item today in his blog entitled «If a
Law Firm Were
Run Like Southwest Airlines.»
Like it not,
law firms must change the way they operate if they want to remain viable and competitive in the long
run.
But
running a
law firm is
like running a business, which involves much more than providing legal services.
Because things don't have to be
run through a committee you can try new systems out, incorporate different practice areas, and accommodate to meet the needs of your clients
like no big
law firm could ever do.
«I
like the principle - based approach to
running a
law firm,» says Boudreau.
«It was
like running a startup inside a major
law firm, but with the downside risk removed.
If we're true to Christensen's definitions, in fact, then almost the only true disruptors among
law firms are the
likes of Berwin Leighton Paisner's Lawyers On Demand and Pinsent Mason's Vario, contract lawyer agencies that
run parallel to the incumbent
firms and essentially compete with them for the attention and affection of clients.
So if the Apple Store were
run like a
law firm, Anil and Pam would have been discouraged from such «nonbillable» work as helping me choose or affix an inexpensive screen protector, in favor of «billable» work
like selling a new Mac Pro.