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Hostage Situation: Lawyers, Not Staff, Should Run Law Firms

NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

In many law firms – especially the small ones – managing attorneys are held hostage by their staffpersons. But, as a lawyer, you’ve got to maintain control of your business, in part because any ethics-related issues that arise, can cost you your license to practice. It’s something of a vicious circle. Nip Dissension in the Bud.

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Combo Platter: Law Firm Mergers Are on the Upswing

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According to a new report from Legal.io, law firm mergers are on the upswing, in 2024. The interesting part of that report, is just how many small firms are involved in the merger conversation. All me rgers were up 24% for Q1 of 2024; but, fully 65% of those mergers involved law firms with between 5-20 attorneys.

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Top Shelf: How to Maximize Lawyer Staff in a Modern Law Firm

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Broadly speaking, lawyers take on too much. But, the fact is that this also has a direct effect on how much a lawyer can make. Hear me out: Because lawyers try to do everything, and to do everything perfectly, they’re also more prone than the general population to take on more work than they need to. You know how it is.

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Two-fer: Law Firms Need to Consider the Second Phase of the Client Intake Process

NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

Generally speaking, most law firm intake systems need a whole heck of a lot of work. But, while many law firms lose leads through their client journey, that probably could have been converted – there is one thing that law firms usually get right, in the intake process.

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Trade Up: This Is Your Reminder That Brand Names Are Valuable for Law Firms

NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

Pre-pandemic, attorneys in a not insignificant number of states were disallowed from using ‘trade’ or ‘brand’ names for their law firms. You know, like ‘Taco Bell’ – though, you probably wouldn’t actually name your law firm Taco Bell. And, yet: few have. If you’re down for a rebrand, we can help!

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Regular Show: Client Maintenance Plans Are Picking Up Steam with Law Firms

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As law firms (slowly) try to dig out from under the hourly billing model (trap?), It’s kind of like a legal insurance policy, and it allows law firms to acquire recurring revenue. For estate planning attorney s , that c ould include access to lawyers, updates to estate plans and document libraries.

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That's Refreshing: When Did You Last Revise Your Law Firm Templates?

NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

It’s hard enough running a law firm, without having to schedule time and effort to revise the templates you use in your law practice. So, most lawyers don’t take the time to do it at all. If you want to talk about better refining your law firm processes, you know who to call.