The National Creditors Bar Association Law Practice Management Blog

Timekeeping on paper was certainly the worst.     Timekeeping using manual software  timers,   isn’t  much better.     The fact is: no one likes  keeping  time .   Even the act of stopping and writing down your time impede s  the flow of work.   Effectively, work product is improved  – if  lawyers are able to  get into a flow state.   That’s  why  passive timekeeping tools are so appealing to attorneys .   The standard  version  of these products  are  device agnostic, and keep track of your time, on various platforms – live, and in the background – while you work .    Products like  Chrometa  and  Toggl  have been around for a  while;   but,  now – artificial intelligence is beginning to infiltrate these tools, which makes them even easier to use, and more effective.     New tools or revised programs, li...

It’s   almost always  hard to find good attorneys.   That’s  especially true in certain practice areas – family law, for example.  Some firms try to hire, and fail –  or,  they never bring on a candidate in the first place, because  they  never come across a good fit.   It’s  rough out there.     But,  hiring  isn’t  the only way to add staff.   While very few attorneys  actually  engage  this strategy, growth by acquisition is a possibility, as well, for  even  solo and small firms.   Because,  yes – one way to  acquire   staff,  is to  acquire  a business  (that could include  both  lawyers  and  administrative staff) .   There are plenty of solo and small firm lawyers out there with a waning desire to manage  a business –  they’d  rather take a paycheck, potentially with some u...