All Entries Tagged With: "money"
April 2011 – Increasing the Bottom Line
Highlights from the “Money” issue of the Contra Costa Lawyer include articles on thriving in ‘interesting’ times (M. Sue Talia), maximizing profits (Andy Ross), starting your own business (Steve Gizzi), how technology can improve your bottom line (David Pearson), starting lawyer-client relationships (D. J. Hartsough), and elements of a successful website (Jessica Gore)
How Multitasking Burns Money and Ruins your Brain
As a busy family law attorney, I can tell you that many things consume my time. Here are my top ten time-burning, schedule busting activities:
10. Reading 12 emails from the same client anguishing …
Maximizing Profits: Practical Tips Concerning Your Written Fee Agreement and Interactions with the Client
The purpose of this article is to recommend practical tips concerning the decision to represent a client and after that decision is made, to recommend important provisions for your fee agreement. These provisions can help …
Anyone for Hanging out a Shingle?
The job market for attorneys is so challenging right now that the majority of recent articles in the ABA Journal have focused on law firm layoffs and unemployed law school graduates suing their law schools …
How Technology Can Improve Your Bottom Line
By now, there are hopefully few, if any, practitioners without at least a computer and printer in their office. The advent of office technology has been a blessing and a curse. Time cycles for preparing …
Starting Lawyer-Client Relationships
Nowhere is the phrase “Start with the end in mind” more profound than when entering into a lawyer-client relationship. This critical first phase has more to do with planning than the proper application of statutes …
What makes a website successful?
It’s all about first impressions…
It’s a given: in today’s Internet-driven culture, people turn to the web first to research their legal issues. When looking for an attorney, you can expect that most users will typically …
The Top 10 Ways the Court Can Save You Time and Money
Although these are very challenging times, the Court continues to look for ways we can streamline procedures or enhance our ability to process documents and payments for everyone’s benefit. Below are the top 10 ways …
Keeping it
In the world of tax, it is about keeping it, not making it. We share our revenues with Uncle Sam (and Uncle Jerry). Last December, Congress and the President made history with the Tax Relief, …
Five Ways Attorneys Can Increase Their Billable Time – While Actually Working Less
Attorneys know that effective time management is the key to maximizing personal productivity and firm profits.
The numbers tell the story and it all boils down to time management. If you bill for your time directly …
Toxic Client Syndrome
*This article, previously published in the March/ April 2008 issue of FORUM magazine, Consumer Attorneys of California, was provided to the Contra Costa Lawyer by Fishkin & Slatter LLP. Thank you!
Getting Out Alive
This article, previously published in the October/ November 1992 issue of San Francisco Attorney, the official publication of the Bar Association of San Francisco, was provided to the Contra Costa Lawyer …
Thinking About the Unthinkable: How to Guard Against Fraud and Embezzlement in Your Firm
From the American Bar Association’s Law Practice Magazine, our Guest Editor suggests the following article for further reading:
Thinking About the Unthinkable: How to Guard Against Fraud and Embezzlement in Your Firm
