Author: Thomson Reuters
What separates very successful from unsuccessful law firms is merely 200 hours per year. Consider the findings of the Thomson Reuters State of U.S. Small Law Firms 2017 Study which reveals that to achieve 1,800 billable hours a year:
As the Small Business Administration recognizes, cash flow is the lifeblood of a business and critical to its growth. Yet ethics regulations requiring lawyers to deposit advance payments into trust accounts and subsequently release it in dribs and drabs as work is performed only serve to exacerbate cash flow issues for solos and smalls
For most companies in the business world, Take Your Child To Work Day comes but once a year. But at Freedom Law P.C., a small woman-owned law firm in Eastpointe, Michigan, employees can take their new babies to work until they’re six months old, reports Corp Magazine. The Infant-at-Work program — which is
Converting legal services into products like self-help books and videos, assessment tools, apps or chatbots invariably raises the same perennial issues for lawyers. Some lawyers obsess about the ethics of commoditization such as whether a product sold nationally might place a lawyer in violation of unauthorized practice of law (UPL) prohibitions or give rise to
Never eat lunch alone, say master networkers like Keith Ferrazi. But in today’s hectic world, getting together for lunch is easier said than done. Still, a lawyer’s got to eat, right?
Enter an elegant solution to this common problem: eatNgage.com , a platform that lets you set up a virtual meeting, demo or webinar
Let’s face it, marketing a solo or small law firm isn’t always candy canes and unicorns. Face to face meetings or calls can lead to rejection or apologetic sorry-I-don’t-have-any-cases-to-refer-right-now while digital marketing efforts like blogging or social media or a spendy SEO campaign often result in crickets rather than clients. Marketing studies show that it
Today marks the first day of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and a time for starting fresh. We don’t make resolutions as we do for the secular new year, but instead, do something more important as we free ourselves of the weight of our mistakes and imperfections from the past year so that we
My regular readers are well familiar with my obsession with farmers’ markets and the marketing lessons harvested therefrom. But this week’s marketing lesson from the Farmer’s Market about the value of giving a little away to draw more business later on – couldn’t be more timely in light of my upcoming FREE Webinar, Seven Figure
Roughly a year ago, I launched a program called Spotlight: an online course for creating a niche legal practice to effortlessly attract quality clients and enable lawyers to make profit and precedent and stand out and shine. Unfortunately, I underestimated the amount of time needed to complete the materials that I wanted to include
Imagine that you plan to get married. You race over to the bookstore and buy up a half-dozen bridal magazines to look at dresses or tuxedos or outfits for the wedding party. You peruse the wedding websites to identify a couple of cool venues in your area, then hop over to Pinterest or Instagram to