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Results-Oriented Financial Management: A Step by Step Guide to Law Firm Profitability 2nd Edition
John G. Iezzi CPA, published 2003, 272 pages with CD-ROM This hands-on, how-to book will provide managing partners, law firm managers, and law firm accountants with the budgeting and financial knowledge needed to make critical decisions. The newly revised and expanded second edition describes the entire financial management process, from gathering a firm’s historical data… Read More »
Categories: Book, FinancesLawyer’s Guide to Increasing Revenue: Unlocking the Profit Potential in Your Firm (2nd Edition)
Arthur G. Greene, published 2012, 194 pages with CD-ROM Are you ready to look beyond cost-cutting and toward new revenue opportunities? Learn how you can achieve growth using the resources you already have at your firm. Discover the factors that affect your law firm’s revenue production, how to evaluate them, and how to take specific… Read More »
Categories: Book, FinancesHow to Draft Bills Clients Rush to Pay, 3rd Edition
Mark Robertson and J. Harris Morgan, 2018 Since the publication of the second edition of How to Draft Bills Clients Rush to Pay, new technologies have emerged in timekeeping and billing to help you more easily prepare bills that are clear and informative to your client. This new edition and expanded edition of a practice-proven… Read More »
Categories: Book, Finances, Solo and Small FirmHow Good Lawyers Survive Bad Times
Sharon D. Nelson, James A. Calloway & Ross L. Kodner, published 2009, 230 pages Worried about the economy? Are you a lawyer out of work? Are you afraid you will be laid off? Are you struggling to manage your firm through a down economy? In a single volume, How Good Lawyers Survive Bad Times, will… Read More »
Categories: Book, Finances, Legal Careers, Marketing, Solo and Small FirmCompensation Plans for Law Firms, 6th Edition
Edited by James D. Cotterman, Altman Weil, Inc., published 2015, 186 pages The revised Sixth Edition of Compensation Plans for Law Firms, provides complete and systematic guidance on how to establish a fair and competitive compensation program for your firm. The book includes workable approaches for compensating partners and associates, as well as other contributors… Read More »
Categories: Book, Finances, Firm ManagementCollecting Your Fee: Getting Paid from Intake to Invoice
Edward Poll, Published 2002, 166 pages with CD-ROM This practical and user-friendly guide provides you with proven strategies and sound advice that will make the process of collecting your fees simpler, easier, and more effective! This handy resource provides you with the framework around which to structure your collection efforts. You’ll learn how you can… Read More »
Categories: Book, FinancesUsing Title Insurance Safely Checklist
Title insurance plays an important role in real estate transactions. each transaction presents a different set of circumstances and risks. The Using Title Insurance Safely checklist (English) (Francais) keeps you on top of the variety of issues to consider when your are obtaining a title insurance policy for your client. The checklist provides further details… Read More »
Categories: Checklist, Title insuranceAre individuals acting as general counsel to their law firms required to have LAWPRO insurance?
While general counsel have been commonplace in corporate settings for years, it is now becoming more common for law firms to have someone working in a “general counsel” capacity. There is a wide variety in the types of work done by law firm general counsel. Among other things, it can involve advice on human resources… Read More »
Categories: 2017 May - 2016 Annual Review, Articles, FAQs, LAWPRO policyWellness
Lawyers are exposed to high levels of stress on a daily basis. In the long term, stress can drive people to use, misuse or even become addicted to alcohol or legal/illegal drugs, or to experience challenges to physical or mental health. Stress and the problems it creates are contributing factors in many LAWPRO claims. LAWPRO… Read More »
Categories: WellnessContact
Contact the practicePRO Program We’d like to hear your comments, suggestions and questions at [email protected] or 1-800-410-1013. Please note that if you need advice on a claim or potential claim you must provide notice of a claim so one of our claims counsel can advise you) Additional LAWPRO contact information is available on the LAWPRO… Read More »
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