Law Practice Management
praticePRO resource: Generic law firm privacy policy
As a supplement to the LAWPRO Magazine articles Privacy and Your Clients: An Agenda For Every Firm (Summer 2003) and Personal Information and Privacy (Winter 2007), LAWPRO has created a Sample Firm Privacy Policy. It can be used as a precedent and checklist to guide you as you examine your own firm’s procedures for dealing… Read More »
Categories: Law Practice ManagementpracticePRO Resource: Vulnerabilities assessment chart
Accidents or disasters that have the potential to interrupt or destroy a law practice can come in many forms. They can be natural, technology related, or man-made (both intentional and accidental). They may affect just a single person, everyone at a firm, or even a whole city or region. practicePRO has created a spreadsheet chart… Read More »
Categories: Law Practice ManagementpracticePRO Resource: A post-matter client survey precedent
A post-matter client survey is one of the best ways to collect information about what clients thought about the services you provided to them. Make sure your survey is structured to help you identify specific areas for improvement. Ideally, it should include some open-ended questions. You might also want to compare client feedback to your… Read More »
Categories: Law Practice ManagementListening to your law clerks and legal assistants can help you avoid claims
I’ve been gossiping with your staff lately. Here at LAWPRO, we have a push on to subscribe law clerks and legal assistants to our magazine and electronic newsletters. We’re doing this because we realize that legal assistants are the “front line” responsible for many of the tasks essential to claims avoidance. In many of your… Read More »
Categories: Law Practice ManagementOne New Year’s resolution you must follow through on: I will make a back-up of my data
No doubt you have all made – or at least thought about making – a few New Year’s resolutions. Hopefully one of them is to make a backup of your data. You do have a backup – don’t you??? Now I won’t ask for a show of hands, but I know at least a few… Read More »
Categories: Technology, Law Practice ManagementLAWPRO’s top articles on Twitter in 2012
2012 saw @LAWPRO and @practicePRO getting more active in tweeting the content we offer lawyers. Here are the 10 most popular articles and resources based on clicks and retweets in the past 12 months. Common mistakes we see real estate #lawyers make and how to avoid them Essential LinkedIn dos and donts for law students… Read More »
Categories: Law Practice ManagementSeven New Year’s resolutions for a better practice
I will fire my worst client: This client is the one that calls you almost every day, sends you hourly emails, never has enough for a retainer and bickers about paying your fees. When ending the retainer, make sure you comply with the Rules of Professional Conduct. I will book my vacation: Your body and… Read More »
Categories: Law Practice ManagementLinkedIn password breach reported – change your LinkedIn password immediately [Updated]
A post on the TheNextWeb site indicates that a Norweigan IT webite, Dagens IT reported the breach. That site indicates that 6.5 million encrypted LinkedIn passwords have been posted to a Russian hacker site. LinkedIn has responded that they are looking into the breach. To be safe, LinkedIn users should change their passwords immediately. For… Read More »
Categories: Fraud Prevention, Technology