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33 Results: Office Management

Employee Embezzlement - Is Your Firm at Risk?

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...

Risk Management: Fire Your Clients. Or Your Staff. Or Yourself

“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.    ...

20 Questions to Ask Yourself: How Ready Are You for Business Interruption(s)

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...

Business Continuity Plan: To Dos

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...

Business Continuity Plans: Communications 101

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? ...

When Disaster Strikes - Fight or Flight

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...

A-Z of Risk Management

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...

Contingency Planning

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...

Managing Practice Risks

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...

Looking For Mr (or Ms) Right: How To Choose A Law Partner

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...

File Management: Little Known Facts

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...

Risk Management: No Excuses for Missing Critical Dates

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...

Practice Support Staff: Their Role In Risk 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...

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