Above The Law

MAY 5, 2025

Chaos is a ladder if you’re plotting to conquer a dragon-themed fantasy world or practicing law at the highest level. But the Q1 2025 Law Firm Financi a l Index suggests the good times may not last, with the market delivering some of the same warning signs that preceded the last time the bottom fell out of the industry.

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CARET Legal

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Specialized bankruptcy software is transforming the way attorneys manage these cases, making the process more efficient and accurate. Fortunately, specialized bankruptcy software is transforming the way attorneys manage these cases, making the process more efficient and accurate.

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CARET Legal

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

What if there was a way to streamline your practice, boost productivity, and enhance client satisfaction – all while reducing stress and improving work-life balance? Picture this: It’s Monday morning, and you’re walking into your law office. Enter modern law firm case management software.

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Rocket Matter

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Learn how big tech has changed the legal industry Free Guide The Small Firm’s Guide to Big Tech While any change in how you operate your law office can feel overwhelming, there’s never been a better time to start migrating your office structures online. That's the only way to succeed today!

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Above The Law

MARCH 27, 2025

As with most things tech-related, a typical law firm has historically trailed a typical corporation in tracking important business metrics and utilizing them in decision-making. Thats because advances in legal technology are eliminating challenges that have traditionally bedeviled law firms looking to make decisions with their data.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In our forthcoming Spring 2025 publication, Fighting the Hypothetical: Why Law Firms Should Rethink the Billable Hour in the Generative AI Era, [1] we hypothesize that Generative AI (GenAI) technology will change forever how legal services are delivered and will force law firms to re-engineer their legacy economic model.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 7, 2021

Lawcus Review: Lawcus has aggressively cross-pollinated lead and client management features across a single platform for law firms. . Even at this late date, the market is inundated with productivity (client management) options, while few marketing (lead management) tools built for law firms are available.

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CARET Legal

JANUARY 17, 2025

Firms can leverage mediation tools to reduce costs, improve client outcomes, and enhance efficiency. Rising expenses, including legal fees, court costs, and lost productivity, create challenges for firms aiming to manage disputes efficiently.

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CARET Legal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The goal isnt just to minimize disruptionits to set each firm up for long-term success while maintaining client trust and operational continuity. Navigating a law firm split requires careful planning, clear communication, and the right tools to ensure a smooth transition.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 27, 2022

When discussing legal tech as an industry, we often focus on horizontal solutions — research, document management, case management, practice management — that apply to law firms regardless of practice area. To be clear, I’m not endorsing the following products. Field of law: Personal injury.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

No matter the size of your law firm, maintaining a positive cash flow is essential. If you aren’t keeping a proper eye on your firm’s bottom line, it simply cannot survive. The most successful law firms use a variety of best practices to manage their finances effectively, many of which can be implemented relatively quickly.

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The Estrin Report

MARCH 2, 2023

by Blake Lively with Comments From Chere Estrin Blake Lively nailed this concept about the value of your team in her article, “Your Law Firm’s Employees Cost Too Much to Lose. If you are in law firm management, you simply MUST read this article Chere Estrin What does it cost to replace an attorney in your law firm?

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Attorney at Work

JULY 22, 2022

Save time in your work day with Rocket Matter legal practice management integrations. Managing legal matters can make you feel like you’re running around like a chicken with its head cut off. One easy change you can make today is to integrate the software you use every day with your legal practice management software.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Project management tools can help lawyers with ongoing, chaotic, unpredictable workflows. McElroy at Procter & Gamble circulated a memo that envisioned an employee who would be responsible for every facet of brand development — everything from tracking sales to advertising, promotion and product development. In 1931, Neil H.

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Above The Law

APRIL 2, 2025

They say time is moneyfor law firms, every billable minute counts toward profitability. Yet many firms struggle to capture the full value of their work. In this post, well explore how passive time tracking is helping law firms maximize revenue, increase operational efficiency, and reduce administrative burdens.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Instead, it lies in fostering a change management culture that prioritizes efficiency, transparency, and alignment between legal departments and their partners. VBP flips this dynamic, creating partnerships by aligning incentives between the client and the firm. How Do You Determine the Value-Based Fee?

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Attorney at Work

JULY 7, 2022

The practice of law is not a profession known for its transparency. Once upon a time, aspiring law school grads would join firms, follow whatever protocols had been set for workflow, caseload and billable requirements, and look forward to the subjective and somewhat mysterious process of becoming a partner. Those days are over.

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Above The Law

MARCH 7, 2025

Many partners at law firms do everything they can to increase the number of hours billed by associates since this has a substantial impact on the financial health of a firm.Unless law firms have explicit incentive systems in place, partners do not have many tools at their disposal that they can use to convince associates to bill more hours.At

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 3, 2022

I’ve been thinking about what it means to lead a company through crises and how each crisis affects law firm leaders. And we have invested endless energy in our firms and in support of our clients. Helpful Resources for Law Firm Leaders. How wrong I was. We have strengthened our resolve. Harvard Business Review.

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CosmoLex

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Integrated accounting software is a vital tool for modern law practices. This software understands how law firms work and can make daily accounting workflows and overall client and financial management more efficient. This gives your firm a clear picture of its accounts, billing, budgets, client payments, etc.

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CARET Legal

JANUARY 10, 2025

By enabling faster transactions, reducing errors, enhancing client satisfaction, and ensuring greater compliance, automated document management optimizes real estate law practices for success in a fast-paced market. Real estate law involves a variety of document types, each with its own requirements.

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The Estrin Report

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The end of the year is typically when firms address compensation issues, including adjusting base pay and bonuses. More firms need to go beyond changing the terms of a lawyers compensation to adjusting the structure of partner compensation itself. If you don’t, some other firm will. Why Change Your Partner Comp Structure?

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The Estrin Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

By Lawrence Pascoe Compared to other businesses, lawyers have not evolved in how they serve their clients Let’s be honest; the way lawyers serve their clients has not changed much , not just from the late 1970s when I started practicing law but probably since the 1200s when England passed laws regulating the conduct of the legal profession.

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Attorney at Work

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Servant leadership is a management style in which you lead by placing the needs of your team first. Given the fear and uncertainty surrounding managing hybrid work and holding onto talent through “the great resignation,” it’s no wonder that law firm owners are rethinking their leadership style.

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Rocket Matter

MARCH 28, 2025

The post Law Firm Management: Key Insights and Strategies for Success appeared first on Rocket Matter. Get free e-book Legal brilliance alone doesn't guarantee the success of a law firm. Running a thriving practice requires a strong foundation in law firm management. Financial Oversight.

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Above The Law

MARCH 3, 2025

Usually, those frustrations amount to the standard learning curve from law school graduate to actual practitioner and after a few months everyone forgets about them until aging partners invent a whole new tier of partnership to cut the next generation out of a slice of their profit pie. Which earned an edit, but… were they really wrong?

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Table of contents Defining Leadership The Five Pillars of Lawyer Leadership Skills Pillar 1: Leader Identity Pillar 2: Leadership Impact Pillar 3: Strategic Thinking Pillar 4: People Management Pillar 5: Personal Productivity and Peak Performance Pointers for Planning a Lawyer Leadership Skills Program Invest in People.

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LawSites

MARCH 11, 2025

AffiniPay, the parent company of a group of technology products for managing law practices and accepting online payments, includingLawPayandMyCase, today released its 2025 Legal Industry Report, based on a survey of over 2,800 legal professionals, primarily in solo and small firms, and it reveals a profession at a critical technological crossroads, (..)

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 17, 2022

A successful cyber attack can expose the contents of your computer systems — things like confidential client data, work product, financial records, account passwords, and everything else you have a consequential professional and legal obligation to safeguard. So what are the biggest law firm cyber risks?

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LawSites

JUNE 6, 2021

based Intapp , a major provider of cloud-based business applications for larger law firms and financial services firms, filed papers Friday with the U.S. In 2015, AppFolio, which then owned practice management platform MyCase, went through an IPO , but its primary products were not in legal, but in property management.

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Rocket Matter

DECEMBER 16, 2024

For most lawyers, financial management is the area of practicing law that causes the most stress. That stress can quickly get in the way of your firms financial healthbut theres no time like the end of the year to evaluate your billing and start making improvements. We completely get it.

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CosmoLex

JANUARY 29, 2025

When it comes to keeping accurate records of your law firms accounts, its essential to use tools that give you a clear picture of your firms performance and meet your legal, regulatory, and ethical requirements. What is law firm accounting ? What is general accounting?

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Attorney at Work

APRIL 27, 2021

My plan backfired when my workaholic brain sabotaged me by setting the highest financial goal I’ve ever had for a single month. Eventually, though, a lawyer who self-identified as a former workaholic contacted me — a law firm owner and plaintiff’s attorney specializing in Social Security disability insurance and veterans’ benefits cases.

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Rocket Matter

MAY 26, 2025

The post Maximize Your Law Firm Finances: Fix These 9 Mistakes to Boost Profitability appeared first on Rocket Matter. Get free e-book Law firm finances should be straightforward: your revenue should surpass your costs, earning your profits. Yet, many firms struggle to stay lucrative over the long term.

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Above The Law

MAY 9, 2025

I attended a fascinating presentation at this years CLOC Global Institute which focused on the results from the most recent CLOC in-house survey, which for the first time was conducted in collaboration with Harbor , a provider of legal services supporting law firms and corporate legal departments.

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CARET Legal

MAY 12, 2025

In many law firms, the senior partners who built the business are now approaching retirement. Theyve brought in clients, developed relationships, and set the tone for how the firm operates. Law firm succession planning is often overlooked until it becomes urgent. It loses critical insight.

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CARET Legal

APRIL 22, 2024

Understanding billing format standards is key for professionals in corporate law, insurance defense, or those looking to join fields heavily reliant on e-billing. Selecting the right legal practice management software can be a game-changer. It revolutionizes your firm’s operations, and optimizes resource allocation.

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