Download or read book The Survival Guide to Implementing Effective Law Firm Management Strategies written by Arthur G. Greene and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-07 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Survival Guide to Implementing Effective Law Firm Management Strategies provides you with the groundwork and policies to create a positive law firm environment and business success.
Download or read book The Small Firm Roadmap written by Sam Glover and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let's be honest, traditional small firm law practice is not working very well. Too many small firm lawyers struggle to make ends meet, get clients, meet clients' expectations, or they wrestle with mental health issues or substance abuse. Meanwhile, there is a huge gap between those who need legal help and those who can get it. But it doesn't have to be that way. We can build better firms, be more effective with our clients, enjoy better health and a greater sense of fulfillment, and make a bigger impact on our communities. With the client-centric law firm management model in The Small Firm Roadmap, you'll see that getting started is easier than you think. The team from Lawyerist.com-Aaron Street, Sam Glover, Stephanie Everett, and Marshall Lichty-will help you gain clarity around your career and firm goals and identify successful strategies for starting, managing, and growing a thriving future-oriented law firm. If you're ready to do great work that supports a great life, this book is for you.
Download or read book The Law Firm Associate s Guide to Connecting with Your Colleagues written by Barbara Black Miller and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2009 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the training manual that accompanies the book for young associates to help them learn how to work effectively with their colleagues. Training Manual explains how to use the book, answers questions, and guides the mentor on how to work with the associates.
Download or read book The Young Lawyer s Jungle Book written by Thane Josef Messinger and published by Fine Print Press, Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who can forget the terror of a new job? Entering an unfamiliar world, with unknown expectations, is a nerve-wracking experience. In law, the new attorney is tackling not only a new job but also a very new, very different, and exceptionally stress-filled professional life...and mountains of student debt. Each year, tens of thousands of new law graduates enter an already saturated job market...yet many are ill-prepared for survival in an ever more unforgiving, fast-paced profession. As law students, you're offered a wide array of guidebooks to succeed in law school, to excel in law exams, and to pass the bar exam. Upon entering the real world of law, however, you're are pushed back into a dark, dangerous jungle. The Young Lawyer's Jungle Book will be your guide to help you find your way to safety and career success.
Download or read book How Good Lawyers Survive Bad Times written by Sharon D. Nelson and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2009 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weak economy and large number of firm layoffs have resulted in a flood of potential new solo and small firm lawyers starting their own practices in the wake of the exodus from BigLaw. Small practice lawyers, well seasoned or just starting out, can gain immeasurably by just applying even a few of the myriad tips within this book.
Download or read book The Lawyer s Guide to Effective Yellow Pages Advertising written by Kerry Randall and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Yellow Pages advertising should be a major profit-building business marketing strategy for many law firms, the harsh reality is that 99% of ads simply don't work. This book will provide you with the information you need to create effective, powerful Yellow Pages ads and drive your client development programs forward. You'll find information on identifying and focusing on your target market, as well as how to plan and design the perfect ad that not only reaches potential clients, but motivates them to call. Book jacket.
Download or read book The Lawyer s Guide to Governing Your Firm written by Arthur G. Greene and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2009 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide is a practical resource for those firms that want to provide better client service and at the same time, improve the working environment for both lawyers and staff. It provides strategies to change the climate of the law firm, boost morale, and effectively and efficiently manage the firm. Issues discussed range from leadership and partnership issues to the basics of running the office. Includes a companion CD-ROM with more than 25 model forms, agreements, worksheets, questionnaires, policy forms, and more.
Download or read book ABA Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ABA Journal serves the legal profession. Qualified recipients are lawyers and judges, law students, law librarians and associate members of the American Bar Association.
Download or read book The Lawyer s Guide to Adobe Acrobat written by David L. Masters and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2008 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adobe PDF lets legal professionals capture and view information--from any application, on any computer system-- and share it with anyone around the world. Whether transactional or litigation oriented, this book will help any law practice run smarter by showing how lawyers can use the latest version of Acrobat to work with digital documents.
Download or read book ABA Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ABA Journal serves the legal profession. Qualified recipients are lawyers and judges, law students, law librarians and associate members of the American Bar Association.
Download or read book The Essential Formbook written by Gary A. Munneke and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lawyer s Guide to Microsoft Excel 2007 written by John C. Tredennick and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2009 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed as a hands-on manual for beginners as well as longtime spreadsheet users, the reader will learn how to build spreadsheets from scratch, use them to analyze issues, and to create graphics presentation. Key lessons include Spreadsheets 101: how to get started for beginners; Advanced Spreadsheets: how to use formulas to calculate values for settlement offers, and damages, business deals; Simple Graphics and Charts: how to make sophisticated charts for the court or to impress your clients; and sorting and filtering data and more.
Download or read book The 2009 Solo and Small Firm Legal Technology Guide written by Sharon D. Nelson and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2009 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Compensation Plans for Law Firms written by James D. Cotterman and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2010 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This newly updated fifth edition of Compensation Plans for Law Firms examines the continually evolving compensation landscape and the concepts that will affect your law firm most. You'll take an extensive look at the world of law firm compensation, including: -- Compensation theory --The art and science of compensation -- Partner and shareholder compensation -- Of Counsel compensation -- Associate Compensation -- Paralegal compensation --Staff Compensation -- Bonuses, increases, and incentives -- Debt, taxes, retirement, and withdrawal -- Evaluations, fairness and flexibility --And much more! Learn Where Your Firm Stands The book also features valuable data from the leading legal consulting firm Altman Weil's annual and triennial surveys on law firm performance and compensation, retirement and withdrawal and compensation systems. Charts and graphs help you see where your firm stands on salaries and bonuses, and it gives you detailed analyses of compensation plans for everyone in your firm. Compare your compensation system to law firms across the country. This one volume provides you with your primary research source leading you to auxiliary sources for further information as appropriate. They can support your current compensation system, or help you reevaluate your current methods of compensation. Careful advance consideration is essential to the success of your compensation plan. Using this valuable reference you can develop a compensation plan that conveys fairness, simplicity, and flexibility and strike the perfect balance within your firm.
Download or read book Implementing Effective IT Governance and IT Management written by Gad Selig and published by Van Haren. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a revised edition of the best selling title Implementing IT Governance (ISBN 978 90 8753 119 5).For trainers free additional material of this book is available. This can be found under the "Training Material" tab. Log in with your trainer account to access the material. In all enterprises around the world, the issues, opportunities and challenges of aligning IT more closely with the organization and effectively governing an organization s IT investments, resources, major initiatives and superior uninterrupted service is becoming a major concern of the Board and executive management. An integrated and comprehensive approach to the alignment, planning, execution and governance of IT and its resources has become critical to more effectively align, integrate, invest, measure, deploy, service and sustain the strategic and tactical direction and value proposition of IT in support of organizations. Much has been written and documented about the individual components of IT Governance such as strategic planning, demand management, program and project management, IT service management, strategic sourcing and outsourcing, performance management, metrics, compliance and others. Much less has been written about a comprehensive and integrated approach for IT/Business Alignment, Planning, Execution and Governance. This title fills that need in the marketplace and offers readers structured and practical solutions using the best of the best practices available today. The book is divided into two parts, which cover the three critical pillars necessary to develop, execute and sustain a robust and effective IT governance environment:- Leadership, people, organization and strategy,- IT governance, its major component processes and enabling technologies. Each of the chapters also covers one or more of the following action oriented topics:- the why and what of IT: strategic planning, portfolio investment management, decision authority, etc.;- the how of IT: Program/Project Management, IT Service Management (including ITIL); Strategic Sourcing and outsourcing; performance, risk and contingency management (including COBIT, the Balanced Scorecard etc.) and leadership, team management and professional competences.
Download or read book A Survival Guide for Road Warriors written by Daniel S. Coolidge and published by Section of Law Practice Management. This book was released on 1996 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supplies all of the knowledge needed to streamline a law office -- from choosing a portable computer, to mastering telecommunications, to dealing with the problems that invariably arrive when working away from the office.
Download or read book The Lawyer s Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies written by Dennis M. Kennedy and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2008 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first-of-its-kind legal guide showcases how to use the latest Web-based and software technologies, such as Web 2.0, Google tools, Microsoft Office, and Acrobat, to work collaboratively and more efficiently on projects with colleagues, clients, co-counsel and even opposing counsel. The book provides a wealth of information useful to lawyers who are just beginning to try collaboration tools, as well as tips and techniques for those lawyers with intermediate and advanced collaboration experience.
