Practice Management Assessment

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Practice Management Assessment and Action Plan
To become more efficient, organized and profitable, start by completing a focused Practice Management Assessment. You identify the areas where you will benefits most from improvements in how you use your practice management software. Next, create a concise Action Plan with follow dates. Do it on your own or by working with us over the phone. Then implement your Action Plan on your own or with our assistance.
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Software Police and Software Thieves

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The clash between software companies wanting to protect their intellectual property (IP) revenue streams and software users continues in full force and has begun to pull in a wider cast of characters. The "software police," the most well-known of which is the Business Software Alliance (BSA), have moved from large enterprise targets to schools and small businesses. This article reviews the requirements of software licenses, consequences of violating them, and steps you can take to protect yourself and your firm.
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Marketing Yourself with Webinars

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You can attract new clients and professionals who refer business to you by presenting periodic Webinars. But wait a second, maybe the very idea of being a Webinar presenter makes you think, "Me? No way!" Before you dismiss the idea of being a presenter, let's take a look at what assumptions could be holding you back from doing Webinars.
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Effective Client Communication

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Choosing the Right Medium for Your Message
Let’s say you are working on a legal matter and you need your client to answer a question for you. You don’t need an answer immediately, but you are under some time pressure and are busy with other matters as well. You call the client and get a voice mail greeting. Now what do you do: Leave a voice mail? Send an e-mail? Instant message? Call later? Or perhaps you are drafting an agreement involving several parties. You could e-mail attachments to everyone and work it out through volleys of e-mails, but are there better alternatives?
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Start a Blog to Grow Your Practice

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How can writing a blog really grow your practice? Would it be ignored, lost in the morass of the Internet? Would it take more time than it is worth? In this interview, Kevin O’Keefe, president of LexBlog (www.lexblog.com), answers these questions and more about the value of blogs for growing your client base and about what makes blogs work.
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Twelve Tech Tips for Legal Writers

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All lawyers need help speeding up and improving their writing. The written word dominates the practice of law. Lawyers and legal assistants are called on to write a wide variety of materials: omnipresent e-mail, letters, agreements, pleadings, articles, and PowerPoint slides, to name a few. From the large selection of software features and utilities available to help you, here are twelve of the best.
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Practice Management Face-Off: Time Matters vs. Amicus Attorney

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The following excerpt from the materials for this session includes a step-by-step explanation of how to handle one of four common law offices tasks using two of the leading practice management software products. The ABA TECHSHOW presentation and materials cover four tasks with this detailed, practical approach to understanding what practice management software can do.
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Time Record Entry with Time Matters

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Are you interested in tracking billable hours more effectively? Use Time Matters to enter time records that transfer to the leading time and billing programs or to invoices that Time Matters produces. This white paper explains time entry and gets you started with illustrations and short-cuts.
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