It is vital to the sustainability of your law practice that you are paid, and paid timely, for your legal services. Yet invoicing clients and collecting legal fees are constant challenges to many lawyers. Handling cases without being paid is simply bad business: you incur unnecessary malpractice and ethical complaint exposure and suffer the loss of money and staff time spent on … [Read more...] about Three Tips to Improve Collection of Your Legal Fees
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Two Simple Legal Marketing Tips
The American Bar Association held its annual meeting in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago. I was asked to serve on a panel of coaches, recruiters and career consultants in a program called "Career Advice Live." It was directed to attorneys with one to six years of experience. My topic was Legal Marketing. The program called for each panelist to deliver two practical tips to … [Read more...] about Two Simple Legal Marketing Tips
Your Decisions Will Determine the Success of Your Legal Career
It seems obvious, doesn't it? The decisions attorneys make will have a huge impact on their success as lawyers. Decisions such as choosing between government and private practice, in-house vs. law firm, the legal practice area(s) to pursue, the law firm to work for and the structure of their law practice. Yet I cannot tell you how many times I have talked to attorneys about the … [Read more...] about Your Decisions Will Determine the Success of Your Legal Career