FEATURES: SUCCESSION PLANNING

The Dollars and Sense of Successful Succession Planning

By Edward Poll

Whether they want to sell their practice or groom a successor partner to take it over, lawyers need to know how the value of their practice will support their retirement years.

Building an Effective Retirement Path for Firm Partners

By Ed Flitton

A former managing partner explains the keys to making succession planning happen with the senior lawyer's well-being in mind.

Estate Planning for Your Digital Assets

By Dennis Kennedy

Given the wealth of information we have housed on our computers and the Internet today, smart estate and succession planning includes addressing how to handle digital assets.

Keys to the Succession Process: A Success Story

By Linda R. Walker

The best approach involves properly choosing and grooming your successor and working diligently together to effect a smooth outcome.

Exit, Stage Left! A Succession Planning Checklist for Lawyers

By James S. Bolan

To prepare the practice for a purposeful transition, study up with this abbreviated list of action items and other points for consideration.

management

Your Practice Management Advisor

Why Succession Planning Is Important: Specific Goals to Consider

By Deborah E. Gillis

Follow these tips to avoid the chaos, added expense and stress that results when no plan is in place.

Simple Steps: Know Your Priorities

By Laura Calloway

Easy, practical advice on untangling your to-do lists. Special from Law Practice magazine's March/April 2010 issue.

marketing

Why Client Feedback Interviews? Because You Really Do Need to Know

By Martha E. Candiello

The client's perspective on your relationship is the best foundation for your business development plan.

Chair's Column

U.S. News Law Firm Rankings Are Poised to Change the Ratings Game

By Micah Buchdahl

This is part one of a two-part column on the hotly contested topic of law firm and lawyer ratings and rankings services. Part two will detail the results of the program and accompanying attendee survey from November's ABA Law Firm Marketing Strategies Conference .

TECHNOLOGY

Tech Tool Reviews

Credenza: A Practice Management System That Functions as an Outlook Add-On

By Jared D. Correia

This new program offers immediate familiarity, in grafting itself onto and in extending Microsoft Outlook.

Best of ABA TECHSHOW: The Greatest Hidden Windows and Office Tricks for Lawyers

By Dan Pinnington

Wanna be better, stronger, faster? No, on your computer, silly. This presentation helps you find out how to tap the potential of the most common desktop applications and operating systems. Learn to control Windows and Office applications, instead of the other way around."

Annual Tech Tips Issue of Law Practice Magazine

Find top tips from ABA TECHSHOW veterans, dozens of apps for your smartphone and more in the March/April Law Practice magazine, including our "At-A-Glance Guide" to this year's exhibitors .

FINANCE

Managing the Risks of Engaging, or Not, in Legal Process Outsourcing

By Ganesh Natarajan and Danny Ertel

A look at the potential pitfalls in approaches when considering whether to reject or embrace LPO options.