Article Index
33 Results: Office Management
01 June 2008
Keywords: Accounts, "blank cheques", Checklists, Dishonesty, "Employee Embezzlement", "Firm Management", Fraud, "Improvement and Processes", "Office Management"
The list of questions below are non-exhaustive, they are basic safeguards that all firms should implement, if they have not already.
DO YOU:
Request for status reports periodically from your accounts staff?
Status...
01 September 2007
, by Mary LC Daniel
Keywords: "Client Handling", "Engagement Management", "Firm Management", "Office Management", "Stress Management"
“Fire Your Clients. Or Your Staff. Or Yourself” by Mary L.C. Daniel published in GPSOLO, Volume 23, No. 5, July/August 2007. Copyright © 2007 by the American Bar Association. Reprinted with permission.
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08 June 2007
Keywords: "Business Continuity", "Firm Management", "Office Management"
Does your office have a working fire alarm or smoke detectors or water sprinklers?
Does your office have working fire extinguishers?
Do you have in mind an alternative site from which your law firm can operate from in the e...
01 June 2007
Keywords: "Business Continuity", "File Management", "Firm Management", "Office Management", Technology
The key to your successful navigation of a crisis will be your people and your main goal is to get them the instructions, training and tools to be able to do the job when that unfortunate time comes.[1]
To Dos
Focus on keeping y...
01 June 2007
Keywords: "Business Continuity", "Client Handling", Communication, "File Management", "Firm Management", "Office Management"
Central to any disaster recovery is communication with the firm’s staff, clients, vendors, courts, and others who make your practice work[1].
Do you have a list of staff and their after hour contact numbers stored at your home?
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01 June 2007
Keywords: "Business Continuity", "Firm Management", "Office Management"
You have come into work and
You find that your accounts clerk of 10 years has left his set of office keys, ID tag and letter of resignation on your table. Application for Practising Certificate is due in a month and your auditors are...
01 March 2007
Keywords: "Business Continuity", Communication, "Engagement Management", "Firm Management", "Limitation Period", "Office Management", "Practice Management", "Retainer Letters"
Archives
Make sure you know how long all completed files should be kept for (expiry of limitation periods), and that they are easily obtainable if necessary. Create inventories of all completed files where possible.
Business Con...
01 September 2006
Keywords: "Business Continuity", "File Management", "Firm Management", "Office Management", Technology
This article was prepared by AFP Consulting’s risk management team and first appeared in the Law Society Gazette, the weekly journal of the Law Society of England and Wales. It was then reprinted in “The Alexander Forbes Guide to Ri...
01 June 2006
, by Bizibody Technology Pte Ltd
Keywords: Communication, "Firm Management", "Office Management", "Practice Management"
Bizibody Technology is a specialist practice management and technology solution provider to the legal industry in Singapore and Malaysia. As consultants to the Law Society of Singapore in the PRIMELAW Standards and an Approved Trai...
01 March 2006
, by Linda J Ravdin
Keywords: "Business Continuity", "Firm Management", "Office Management", "Practice Management", "Succession Planning"
Linda J. Ravdin is a shareholder in a 13-lawyer firm, Pasternak & Fidis, P.C., in Bethesda, Maryland. She joined the firm after 28 years of practicing as a solo or in small firms of two to five lawyers. She concentrates in domestic re...
01 January 2006
Keywords: "File Management", "Firm Management", "Office Management", "Practice Management"
DID YOU KNOW?
Documentation can save you and your clients time, money and exasperation.
Little Known Fact:
As your practice grows, files could become your biggest headache! Over the years, they can become costly and sometimes cum...
01 November 2005
, by Alistair Sim
Keywords: "Case Study", "Client Handling", "File Management", "Firm Management", "Improvement and Processes", Litigation, "Office Management", "Time Management"
Alistair Sim is Associate Director in the Professional and Financial Risk Division at Marsh UK Limited. This article first appeared in ‘The Journal’ (The Online Journal of the Law Society of Scotland, December 2002, page 46) and is reprod...
21 November 2003
, by Ronwyn North
Keywords: "File Management", "Firm Management", "Office Management", Technology, "Time Management"
Risk Manager’s Note: Whilst this article provides examples of the Australian experience, universal similarities are abundant in practice management for the legal profession around the world. We hope that you will use such example...