Unless you are already succeeding beyond your wildest dreams, your law firm should have a business plan. Complacency – or inertia – leads to “We want to make more money by doing more of what we’ve always done – somehow with the same people or reduced staff.” The attitude carries through to the use of…
You can’t schedule emergencies, but you can prepare for them Being prepared has two key aspects. For your business to survive a disaster, it’s key to know How will you continue to work in the event of a disruption? How will you restore normal operations once the interrupted services and facilities are re-established? Does your firm have written procedures…
Cloud Services, especially for document management, present interesting legal and regulatory issues, such as national jurisdiction over the stored information. I’ve posted a few musings about the issues but I am not seeing obvious conclusions yet. Rather than posting minor comments one-per-link, here is my collection to date.
It can be a very tough proposition to sell: spending fewer billable hours. In many cases, a successful knowledge search will result in exactly that – with just the right prior work at hand, you can draft up the needed agreement in a much shorter time. So, how do you ensure that the client is…