The December issue of GPSOLO Magazine featured articles about how attorneys can automate their offices. All articles were useful, but the one I found most intriguing was “Effective Software Training for Law Offices.” The author made a great point right off the bat by saying, “You need both good software and good software training to [...]
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As lawyers, our success is determined by the happiness and satisfaction of our clients. Do your clients generally express their dissatisfaction? Most don’t. This is a problem because dissatisfied clients are often the undoing of a healthy practice as repeat business declines, receivables go down, negative word-of-mouth swells, referrals fall and most dangerously, ethics complaints [...]
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Running a law practice is a combination of providing service to your clients and managing your own business. Firms that focus too little on successfully running and growing their practices have a higher probability of failure. Successful companies have a known brand that they market through effective advertising. Not preparing and executing an effective marketing [...]
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Did you know that for every associate that is lost, the average firm loses between $100,000 and $600,000? Firms with high turnover rates are far more likely to dissolve than firms with a stable, happy workforce. The third reason practices fail, ineffective guidance of staff, goes hand-in-hand with reason #2, lack of effective leadership. If [...]
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For law firms, flawed leadership greatly increases the likelihood of failure. Poor leadership practices include alienating associates and staff members with an autocratic style, not establishing a clear and powerful direction for staff, not keeping staff well informed and not reconciling incompatible goals among partners. When employees don’t know the long term goals of the [...]
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There are things you can do to help ensure the success of your law firm, even in a failing economy. I have come up with 5 key reasons why law practices fail. Over the next couple of weeks I will outline these reasons for you and give you tips on how to avoid struggling. Successful firms [...]
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Every practice needs clients. And every practice hopes their clients will refer their services to their friends. The best way to ensure that your clients refer you is to provide them with a satisfactory experience by being helpful, courteous, and going above and beyond your client’s expectations of you, starting with their first impression of [...] |
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That's really true!! Lawyers do need to have certain technical qualifications when it comes to making a career in this ...
Keep posting stuff like this I really like it.