From R2D2 to H.A.L. 9000, artificial intelligence has featured prominently in popular imagination over the last fifty years. And while your firm might not yet have a friendly little robot fetching the coffee, firms of all sizes are actually making good use of artificial intelligence already. These technologies are particularly helpful for small and mid-size firms, who can use them … Read More
Using Tech to Boost Your Year-end Activities
November and December can be joyful months, but they are also known for piling on the stress: there are financial and reporting requirements to attend to, an increase in family obligations, and some appealing extracurriculars that your team might not want to miss. If there were ever a time that your law office could use a boost in productivity and … Read More
Should You Renew Your Law Firm’s Lease? Decision-making Tips for the Pandemic
Work from home or lease commercial real estate? For lawyers, it’s a complicated choice. Here are some decision-making tips. For individuals, families, and businesses, a lot has changed in 2020. And while change can be hard, it also has its bright spots: upheaval can encourage us to reexamine our priorities, and sometimes the result is the realization that our needs … Read More
Does Your Law Firm Website Need Live Chat?
Live chat functions pay dividends by helping law firms generate more leads and conversions. Imagine if every single person who viewed your web page became one of your clients. Sounds too good to be true, right? While you might not be able to reach a 100% conversion rate, there are many tools out there that can get you closer. For … Read More
Three Key Ways to Earn Law Firm Client Loyalty
Inspire trust to keep clients loyal to your law firm. Loyal clients are one of a law firm’s most valuable assets. For one thing, providing counsel to existing clients is a much more efficient use of your firm’s resources than chasing down new ones. Secondly, loyal clients are both familiar with you and satisfied with your work, which makes them … Read More
Five Ways to Avoid a Malpractice Lawsuit
Avoid malpractice suits—and make your clients happy—with these five techniques. There is a reason many lawyers carry malpractice coverage. Even a single groundless claim can run a firm tens of thousands of dollars in defense costs. This is particularly problematic for small firms and solo practitioners, who are the most likely to risk operating without malpractice coverage and also might … Read More
What’s Your Goal? Setting Goals for Career Fulfillment
Setting goals can help you avoid burnout and shape the career that is right for you. Remember the day that you graduated from law school? You felt proud, relieved, exhausted, and excited about what the future might hold. All of your hard work had paid off, you’d become a lawyer, and the rest would be, more or less, smooth sailing. … Read More
Getting Started: Migrating to a New Practice Management Software
Want to learn even more? Download our migration guide to get everything you need to know about making the switch. Getting ready to migrate to a new practice management software? Exciting! It’s a big deal to make the shift to a more efficient, powerful, and effective platform. It’s also a big task. Take the time to plan out the steps … Read More
Advanced Practice Management Strategies for Increased Productivity
Productivity. It’s what we all want. But what does it mean in a modern law firm to contemporary lawyers? It seems like every couple of years, a new perspective on productivity rolls around: how to achieve it, how to manage it, how to let go of it. For lawyers especially, it’s highly desirable. Productivity means clients signed, billable hours racked … Read More
Five Steps to a More Productive Law Office
Ever ask yourself how you could possibly fit anything else into your day? We’ve all been there. The good news is that to be more productive and get more done, you don’t actually need more hours in the day. You just need to be more productive. We’ve broken down how you can turn your law office into a productive, efficient … Read More