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The simple fact is that a sole practitioner owns a family business — the law practice. And studies regularly document that small business owners do not plan well for the future of their businesses. A survey several years ago by ...

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One often hears the phrase: “work-life balance.” It’s an issue that varies from lawyer to lawyer. In the short term, there is really no such day-to-day phenomenon as balance; at any given moment the lawyer is doing just one thing, ...

Tagged with: Health & Wellness

Lawyers have a language all their own, and sometimes its purpose seems to be to obscure meaning rather than to facilitate it; however, other disciplines that work in law firm staff positions also have their professional jargon that may or ...

Tagged with: Law Office Management

Is the location of your office, whether downtown, in a strip mall or in a two-story walkup, critical from a client perspective? The answer depends on the types of clients you seek to attract and what is most convenient to ...

If you are opening a new law practice, you need to start your firm on sound financial footing. But the nature of your firm’s infrastructure — bricks and mortar, computers and software – are important too. Each element is essential, ...

Law firms are no strangers to the boom-and-bust mode of operation, and it’s been apparent for some time that the “bust” phase is here. Of course, small firms and solo practices face the valley of lean times frequently, sometimes more ...

A client recently called me with a good problem. The office administrator of his firm was someone who, as the lawyer said, “takes more initiative than anyone I’ve ever had around here.” That ranged from volunteering to making collection phone ...