Lawyer Wellness The New World of Remote Work: The Impact on Wellness Brooke Moore A healthy workforce is a productive one, and law firm leadership can play a key role in supporting lawyers with well-being both in the office and working remotely.
Legal Delivery Playing in the Regulatory Sandbox: A Survey of Developments Daniel J. Siegel Only time will tell if the regulatory sandbox is the correct way to improve delivery of legal services.
Practice Technology Evolving Law Firm Models With Innovation: Using Lessons Learned From the Pandemic Mary E. Vandenack The COVID-19 pandemic has been an opportunity for law firms to move forward at a much greater speed than in the past.
Litigation & Trials Moving Courts Online Michael L. Spekter The advantages have been proven, and online court proceedings that were adopted during COVID-19 are here to stay.
Practice Management Can Lawyers Pass Consumer Hiring Tests? Carol Schiro Greenwald Your potential clients have come to expect a consumer-friendly experience when finding, vetting and hiring lawyers.
Practice Management Editor's Note: The Big Ideas Issue: Your Road Map to the Future Lance G. Johnson I like to think of the Big Ideas Issue as a type of long-range planning session for the practice of law and its possible societal impact.
Practice Management Perspectives: What's the Big Idea? Traci Ray What are the press¬ing issues we need to address? How can we improve the things we rely on daily for both our families and profession to thrive? What tools do we have to invest in these improvements or novel notions?
Lawyer Wellness The Thriving Lawyer: Why Resonant Listening Is Essential to Thoughtful Leadership Anne E. Collier To listen resonantly is to listen for the deeper meaning and to think based on that deeper meaning. Stated another way, unless you are listening resonantly you are missing information critical to your thinking.
Practice Technology Simple Steps: Video as a Marketing Tool Allison C. Shields Johs A recent study by Wyzowl revealed that 86 percent of businesses use video as a marketing tool. According to the ABA’s 2020 Legal Technology Survey Report, only 24 percent of lawyers surveyed say their firms use video as part of their marketing.
Ethics Ethics: Ethically Extending a Practice With Contract or Temporary Help Lucian T. Pera One change in how lawyers practice is clear: More and more lawyers, law firms and corporate law departments are dis¬covering the usefulness of contract or temporary lawyers.
Professional Development News & Events: Big Ideas During Uncertainty Zachary Bambacht The Law Practice Division has made some major pivots over the last 15-plus months to better serve the needs of our members and to make more meaningful contributions to the American Bar Association for the membership we all serve.
Practice Technology Product Watch: Documate: Beyond Document Assembly Heidi S. Alexander I think there is little doubt by most that the lawyer’s relationship with documents can be improved with technology.
Practice Technology Hot Buttons: Retaining the Best of Our COVID Technology-Focused Existence Will Be a Challenge Daniel J. Siegel Is the solution tearing down the wall between the IT staff and the rest of the firm? For many law offices, that wall remained until COVID-19.
Practice Technology Tech From the Trenches: Alternatives to All-or-Nothing Technology Adoption Laura L. Keeler Too often, lawyers believe that integrating technology into their practices involves all-or-nothing investments.
Lawyer Wellness Managing: Is Back to Normal the New Normal? Thomas C. Grella Before we just reacquire our old 2019 norms, I wonder if a little introspection might be in order in an effort to not blindly morph back into our past existence.
Lawyer Wellness Future Proofing: Necessity Is the Mother of Legal Innovation Dan Pinnington & Reid Trautz Necessity was the catalyst that foisted many pandemic-related changes upon us—a great many of which members of the profession resisted in the past. As we leave the pandemic behind, there are lessons to be learned from these changes.
Practice Marketing Marketing: Getting to In-House Without Ending Up in the Outhouse Micah Buchdahl Opportunities for your firm are the opposite of shooting fish in a barrel; it is finding a needle in a haystack. But all is not lost. There are still effective ways to shine a light on your law firm.
General Practice Finance: Performance Indicator Dashboard Design: Pick a Metric, Any Metric? Frederick J. Esposito Jr. Law firms need to identify what data needs to be collected, and the metrics must be carefully and methodically analyzed for accuracy.
Practice Management Practice Management Advice: Planning for Client Transitions Is Not Just for Solos John D. Bowers No matter how necessary or mission-critical a client succession project may seem, well-meaning practice leaders do an excellent job of mucking up client relationships.
Practice Management Taking the Lead: Identifying Challenges With the Return to the Office Linda Klein & John Hinton IV With the COVID vaccine rollout reaching critical mass, many laws firms are beginning the transition back to a regular office schedule.
