The Management Issue

Frontlines

Practice Management

Law Firm Recruitment and Retention in the Age of COVID-19

Barbara Mendel Mayden

In a shifting COVID-19 landscape, law firms and candidates continuously assess what is most important.

Practice Management

Managing a Hybrid Workforce

Matthew Driggs & Amber Southern

Clarity and structure are keys to creating a positive experience for both remote and in-office groups.

Practice Management

Managing Relationships and Operations in the New Normal

Dave S. Christensen

Four attorneys offer their insights into how legal relationships and operations will proceed after the pandemic.

Practice Technology

Time to Manage Videoconferencing

Catherine Sanders Reach

With videoconferencing here to stay, there are some potential improvements to be made with how a law firm manages its use of videoconferencing now and in the future.

Practice Management

For the Times, They Are A-Changin'

Roberta Tepper

Once an inconceivable notion, lawyers and nonlawyers could own law firms together under regulatory changes.

Departments

General Practice

Editor's Note: Liberation is Imminent

Lance G. Johnson

As mass vaccination becomes a reality, I sense a refreshing optimism that normal is on the near horizon. But what will that look like?

Practice Management

Perspectives: Cultivating Management Skills

Traci Ray

If we develop confidence, skills and the tools necessary to manage well, then later, as we take on more life responsibilities, the complicated side of management can be fun.

Frontlines

Practice Management

The Thriving Lawyer: It’s Not You. It’s Not Me. It’s Our System.

Anne E. Collier

Note that the question is not “Who’s to blame?” When a project goes awry, it’s the system that isn’t working, not the people in the system. We need to eschew person-centric blame in favor of devising a better system.

Practice Management

Simple Steps: Applying Essentialism to Your Law Practice

Allison C. Shields Johs

What we thought was essential wasn’t necessarily essential, and what we didn’t give much thought to at all before might actually be the most essential of all.

Practice Management

Ethics: WFH UPL?

Lucian T. Pera

Do you really need that office in the state where you are licensed? As important, will practicing law from the lake cottage, where you are not licensed, violate some ethics rule or law?

Practice Management

News & Events: Managing in Crisis

Zachary Bambacht

How do we prepare for the unexpected when it is of such a size and scope that it has never been seen before or is so unique in that it changes the course of our world in a way that hasn’t been seen in modern history?

Technology

Practice Technology

Product Watch: Get More Out of Your Wi-Fi

William T. Ramsey & Phillip Hampton

When we were young, major family squabbles would erupt over telephone usage. The real battle in today’s households revolves around who is using up all the Wi-Fi bandwidth.

Practice Technology

Hot Buttons: Stop Emailing Attachments

Catherine Sanders Reach

Before you reflexively attach a document to an email, think about the intended use of the information and ask if there is a better way.

Practice Technology

Tech From the Trenches: Keep It Simple—Seriously!

Patrick M. Patino

2020 was difficult. Being an attorney was hard enough already. Wouldn’t it be nice if 2021 could bring some ease to your practice?

Business

Practice Management

Managing: Lessons From Our Deficit in National Leadership

Thomas C. Grella

Leadership is about influence—not power, position or forcing others to act. True leadership is about serving others, without manipulation.

Practice Management

Future Proofing: Practical Insights Into Innovation Leadership

Dan Pinnington & Reid Trautz

For insights on what makes an innovation leader successful, we asked Mark Beese, president of Leadership for Lawyers, LLC.

Practice Technology

Marketing: Harnessing AI Web Apps and Chat Bots for Content Marketing

Greg Siskind

These new tools are usually labeled expert systems because they replicate an attorney’s legal analysis. They can be used for all sorts of functions and operate in web browsers and in chat windows on mobile devices.

Practice Management

Finance: What Is a Performance Indicator Dashboard?

Frederick J. Esposito Jr.

This column will be the first in a series that will explore the design, development, common mistakes, critical success factors, implementation, strategic value and ROI of performance dashboards, and how law firms can use them for making good business

Practice Management

Practice Management Advice: Positioning Yourself to Be in the Forefront

Heidi A. Barcus

Now that lawyers and judges have found a way to navigate the new normal, we need to focus on how our clients have changed their business practices.

Practice Management

Taking the Lead: A Brief Word About Our Words

Linda Klein & John Hinton IV

What if we spoke to our colleagues with as much care as we speak to judges, juries and our own clients?

Lance G. Johnson

Chair

Fairfax, VA
Mary E. Vandenack

Vice Chair

Omaha, NE
John D. Bowers

Nashville, TN
Micah Buchdahl

Moorestown, NJ
James Calloway

Oklahoma City, OK
Dave Christensen

South Windsor, CT
Anne Collier

Chevy Chase, MD
Nicholas Gaffney

San Francisco, CA
Jason Long

Knoxville, TN
Andrea Malone

Philadelphia, PA
Jeanne Picht

Washington, DC
Daniel Pinnington

Toronto, ON
Mark Robertson

Oklahoma City, OK
Michael Spekter

Washington, D.C.
Roberta Tepper

Phoenix, AZ
Cynthia Thomas

Newbury Park, CA
Courtney Ward-Reichard

Minneapolis, MN
Marcia Wasserman

Northridge, CA
Patrick Wright

Dallas, TX

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The Management Issue

The Mental Health Factor: Accounting for the Emotional Toll of the Pandemic

Frontlines

Law Firm Recruitment and Retention in the Age of COVID-19

Managing a Hybrid Workforce

Managing Relationships and Operations in the New Normal

Time to Manage Videoconferencing

For the Times, They Are A-Changin'

Departments

Editor's Note: Liberation is Imminent

Perspectives: Cultivating Management Skills

Frontlines

The Thriving Lawyer: It’s Not You. It’s Not Me. It’s Our System.

Simple Steps: Applying Essentialism to Your Law Practice

Ethics: WFH UPL?

News & Events: Managing in Crisis

Technology

Product Watch: Get More Out of Your Wi-Fi

Hot Buttons: Stop Emailing Attachments

Tech From the Trenches: Keep It Simple—Seriously!

Business

Managing: Lessons From Our Deficit in National Leadership

Future Proofing: Practical Insights Into Innovation Leadership

Marketing: Harnessing AI Web Apps and Chat Bots for Content Marketing

Finance: What Is a Performance Indicator Dashboard?

Practice Management Advice: Positioning Yourself to Be in the Forefront

Taking the Lead: A Brief Word About Our Words

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2020-2021

Lance G. Johnson

Mary E. Vandenack

John D. Bowers

Micah Buchdahl

James Calloway

Dave Christensen

Anne Collier

Nicholas Gaffney

Jason Long

Andrea Malone

Jeanne Picht

Daniel Pinnington

Mark Robertson

Michael Spekter

Roberta Tepper

Cynthia Thomas

Courtney Ward-Reichard

Marcia Wasserman

Patrick Wright