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Paperless Office For Your Law Firm

Why Go Paperless? With a paperless office, attorneys and support staff can find documents without having to leave their desks or rummage through file cabinets or boxes. Also, when it comes time to close files, it is a simple matter to drag them from an active work directory to an archive directory, thus...
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Duties of a New Law Firm Administrator

Question: Our office is small, and we have never had a law firm administrator. Now the attorneys have asked me to become the administrator. What duties should be assigned to the position? How should the announcement be made to staff? And what should I do to ensure success in the...
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Managing Partner Retirement: Plan Long Term

Put Some Long-Term Planning Into Partner Retirement Planning for Retirement: How Not To Lose The Clients - Or The Firm Partner retirement is a watershed event, particularly when the partner has originated a large portion of the business or is dominant in the firm’s management or practice...
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How To Deal With An Alcoholic Partner In A Law Firm

The Alcoholic Partner: An Unpleasant Situation That Has To Be Addressed Ignore a partner’s alcohol problem at the firm’s peril, mainly the peril of lost clients and charges of malpractice. Both alcohol and drug abuse are high among attor­neys, says Robert J. Henderson of RJH Consulting, a law firm practice...
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How to Deal With Nonproductive Partners in a Law Firm

How To Deal With – And How To Avoid – Nonproductive Partners Not sure what to do with that underperforming part­ner? Many law firms are on the same sinking ship. In fact, the problem of nonproductive partners is “right up there with compensation systems as one of the thorniest issues...
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Some Pokes And Prods To Get The Attorneys To Submit Billing Hours On Time

Time needs to come in and bills need to go out no less frequently than weekly. Let it go beyond that, “and the losses can be signifi­cant,” says law firm management consultant ROBERT HENDERSON of Jackson Hole, WY. Nobody can remember every detail a week after the fact, so the...
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Leveraging a Law Firm’s Associates and Paralegals

Want to improve the profits? Get the partners to stop hogging the work. There’s more money to be had by funnelling work to the associates, says practice management consultant ROBERT HENDERSON of RJH Consulting in Jackson Hole, WY. It’s called leveraging. It means using the firm’s res...
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Avoid Waste of Money: 7 Ways to Cut Unnecessary Spending

And All Seven Are Easy To Get Rid Of  A tight economy doesn’t allow for the waste of money. Yet waste of money is there in just about all firms, and it lurks in places where no one thinks to look. Here are seven such areas. They are outlined by ROBERT J. HENDERSON, a Jackson Hole, Wyoming...
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Performance Evaluation

Performance evaluation should go way beyond the tried and the old principles to be truly effective. One should treat this process as an opportunity rather than as a perfunctory exercise. First, to value the person being evaluated; and second, to share and engage the employee in the...
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