Run Your Firm Like a Business: An Operational Guide for the Solo Practitioner and Small Law Firm

Use Run Your Firm Like a Business to address the challenge of practicing law while managing the administrative and business demands of your practice. Powerful systems developed and refined over years help resolve the tension between the tasks of the business, and actually doing the legal work for which you were trained. This book shifts the paradigm of avoiding the administrative part of the profession and allows you to plan your business strategy like you plan your case strategy. Revolutionary systems, how to design them, implement them, and stick to them are all outlined in this helpful guide. The book provides detailed advice on: * Effective information management system * Choosing good clients and employees * Marketing * Timekeeping, billing, and collection systems * Business operations including outside resources to consider, and more.