
Lawyers are supposed to practice law, right? But all too often, attorneys find themselves spending more and more time managing the business aspects of their practices instead of spending that time practicing law. And you can’t bill a client for the time you spend on administrative tasks and managing your practice.
The ACBA Practice Management Center is design to offer you tips, articles and other resources designed to help you run your practice more efficiently … free up more time for you to practice law.
Articles
Financial Management
- Calculating investment risk in retirement
- How a cash balance plan can help business owners boost retirement savings
- Seven most common trust account mistakes and how to avoid them
- An easier method to reduce your unpaid bills
- Thinking about starting a 401k for your firm? Ten tips to keep in mind
- Five ways lawyers can improve accounts receivable collections
- Resources to help HR meet the changing needs of organizations
- Eleven ways to protect your business from payment fraud
- Thinking of setting up a 401k for your firm? Six tips to keep in mind
- Do you conduct an annual financial checkup for your law firm?
- Avoid being sued when collecting legal fees
- Credit card mythbusting: Four reasons law firms still resist online payments
- Seize your budget’s powerful potential
- Forecasting – A tool for managing financial uncertainty
- Do you trust yourself with trust accounting?
- How lawyers are optimizing cash flow and workflow
- How to develop a rockstar team
- Law firm billing – It can be simpler
- The profit potential of paralegals
- Power Position: The six financial reports your law firm needs monthly
- Reminders and resources for law firms during the COVID-19 pandemic
- The no-fail formula for knowing who to hire when
- What is contemporaneous time entry worth to your law firm?
- When is the best time to prepare for a disaster?
Hybrid Workplace and COVID Response
Insurance and Liability
Marketing and Client Relations
- Law firm branding: Is it time to consider modernizing your firm’s brand?
- Public relations and law firms: Does a media mention hold the same weight it once did?
- Improve your intake: Ten steps to seal the deal
- Selecting and working with forensic consultants: Optimizing benefits and minimizing problems
- Limited scope representation: The importance of drafting detailed retainer agreements
- Your real brand may not be what you think
- How to differentiate your firm from your competitors
Solo and Small Firm Strategies
- Small law firm innovations come from the most unlikely places
- Making online reviews work for your firm
- Accelerating the drive to work smarter
- You’ve decided to go out on your own. Now what?
- Former ABA President discusses burdens of running a law firm
- From here to there: Elements of an effective screen when onboarding a lateral hire
Technology and IT
- Tips to prevent skyrocketing costs related to social engineering fraud
- The advantage of better technology in a small law firm
- Fortifying the firm: How to confront digital threats to the modern law firm
- A.I.-assisted legal research is here (and it’s probably cheaper than what you’re paying now)
- Microsoft Teams – How to smartly use a powerful collaboration tool
- How website chat helps lawyers win more clients with fewer interruptions
- Profitability Measurement Tool
- Can an engagement letter protect you from cyber-related liability?
- How to prepare for a Skype interview
- Remote online notarization in Pa. during COVID-19
- Working remotely: Three tips for law firm success
- Will COVID-19 change data visualization adoption in complex disputes?
- Understanding data analytics can improve your efficiency
Time Management and Efficiency
- You missed a deadline? How to avoid that nightmare
- You’ve decided to go out on your own. Now what?
- How Attorneys Get More Done in Less Time
- The three tools law firms need to survive and thrive
- Time management challenge solo practices must overcome
- Formula 168: How lawyers create the life they want
- Practical planning lessons from 2020
- Simpler ways to improve partner on-time meeting attendance and time entry
- Short tips and tools in arbitration
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