The Actualized Workplace
Much is written about the need for effective leadership and management. Overwhelmingly, people focus on the importance of leaders establishing culture.
Volume 49, Issue 3
Much is written about the need for effective leadership and management. Overwhelmingly, people focus on the importance of leaders establishing culture.
Many traditional aspects of a succession plan persist in importance as a firm grows. A succession plan needs to address emergencies, death, and disability, which can cause disruptions to a practice.
Research has shown that employees start thinking about leaving before they actually decide and act on it. This is hardly a surprise to anyone.
In many professions, including law, succeeding independently is viewed as a sign of real success or strength, and people are often reluctant to acknowledge the need for mentoring.
Whether you have a virtual office, have remote or hybrid employees on the team, contract with an outside attorney for overflow, or outsource administrative functions, the way you manage the remote te…
Legal managers, administrators and leaders have a vested interest in remaking systems to improve legal professionals’ well-being. Managers should note that taking actionable measures matters; promoti…
Managing a law firm is no easy task, made only more difficult by the multitude of changes in the legal profession. Our feature authors in this issue focus on many different aspects of law firm manage…
What practice management processes should I implement? What specific practice management tools should I use? That’s a difficult question to answer in the abstract since every law firm and business wi…
The law in pretty much every jurisdiction is that we can become someone’s lawyer essentially by implication if we deal with someone seeking legal advice or services and if we let them reasonably beli…
A person’s path is typically not straight forward or straightforward. There are good times and hard times. At times, the vagaries of life may appear as grave misfortune.
The skills required to be a good manager, to communicate with and inspire others, to help to train them and foster their growth, are often different from the skills required to be a good lawyer.
The Law Practice Division (LP) is committed to delivering resources and support to lawyers, law firms and other legal professionals.
There are so many products on the market, it is necessary to understand the different terms and uses of these devices. Headphones have one or two earpieces that are connected to a band that goes over…
It is time that lawyers and law firms recognize that, despite the convenience of technology, including email, at times there is no substitute for a phone call—the type of personal authentication that…
Lawyers often get stuck trying to navigate the sea of choices of methods for communicating with clients.
The Pandemic forced many of us to implement several technologies that we had never considered before. Maybe for the first time, law firms made mission-critical decisions about evolving their technolo…
Given the types of information entrusted to lawyers, it is no surprise that hackers and bad actors target law firms of all sizes to steal and misuse data.
Law firms are experiencing analogous frustrations figuring out the fix to unexpected post-COVID professional staffing issues that have recently arisen.
Office design is a tool law firm leaders can use to reinforce cultural changes that incorporate new priorities. Whether it be rows of desks, cubicles or office size as an indicator of status, office…
The benefits of marketing the fact that we are a women-owned business didn’t really register with me until my friend, the marketing maven Carol Schiro Greenwald, asked me why we hadn’t gone through t…
Key performance indicators (KPIs) and dashboards are key to monitoring day-to-day productivity and firm performance. Most law firms understand the role these metrics play in ascertaining how the firm…