Useful to legal practitioners of all specialties and sizes, this second volume of The Essential Formbook includes more than 100 forms, checklists, and sample documents, and focuses on Human Resources and Fees, Billing, and Collection. These sections will be periodically updated to ensure that you always have the most current information available.

The Essential Formbook: Comprehensive Management Tools for Lawyers, Volume II

Part I: Human Resources five chapters containing:

• Numerous job descriptions
• Traits for successful managers
• Over 27 recruitment and hiring forms
• 18 training and development forms
• 21 evaluation, compensation and benefit forms
• 6 training checklists
• A full chapter examining complaints, sanctions, financial penalties, sexual harassment, whistle-blowers, and more. Forms contained here include termination, resignation, warning, and reprimand forms
• and more!

• Measuring the effectiveness of your billing practices
• The problems of hourly billing
• Pricing legal services
• Using cost analysis
• Alternative fee arrangements
• A self-assessment checklist for selecting a billing method
• Engagement letters
• Managing and improving the billing process
• Managing the collection process, a checklist for improving collections
• and more!

This publication is made possible through the generous support of the following Lawyers Professional Liability Insurance companies: Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's, London, England; Grosvenor Brokers, London, England and Herbert L. Jamison & Co., West Orange, New Jersey.