Part of practicing from anywhere is being reachable anywhere. This is certainly true of e-mail, but what about phone calls? If you aren’t at your office desk to pick up the ringing handset, what do you do? You could set up call forwarding to send all calls to your cell phone, but what about outgoing […]
Coming up with ideas for content can be tough, but it doesn’t have to be. If you are just starting out with your web site, then there is most likely a plethora of topics you can talk about. But after a while, after you have written about all of the obvious stuff, you can be […]
If you are thinking about getting your first web site for your law practice (or even looking to redesign it), you may be asking yourself this question: Why pay big bucks for a website management system when a viable, free alternative exists? Why not use WordPress? Where do I begin in saying, No! WordPress is […]
I have a question for you: When was the last time you took a vacation? When was the last time a vacation was more than just a long weekend? Yeah, that’s what I thought! You’re so busy trying to take care of your clients and make a living that you don’t have any time to […]
Having a paperless office can be liberating! It can save you money and make it much easier to be virtual and work from anywhere. But no matter what, the practice of law produces paper (many times in abundance). So how do you deal with that paper? Well, the easiest way to explain this is to […]
When people think about “moving to the cloud” and “going virtual,” they are most often just thinking about cloud storage. They are moving their documents to an Internet storage facility, so that they can access them from anywhere. Although this is an important part of being virtual, it is not the only one, and should […]
For years we’ve heard about how businesses need to “move to the cloud.” Virtual businesses are more nimble and able to serve their customers better. If you’ve been thinking about making this move, then good for you! Being able to work from anywhere can be very liberating! Those Pesky Ethics Rules But as lawyers, unfortunately, […]
How much stress and anxiety do you have in your life that is caused by bad clients? You know, the unreasonable ones, the demanding ones, the ones that are never satisfied and are always complaining? Are you tired of talking to tire kickers and people who aren’t ready to hire you? How often have you heard […]
When it comes to the finances of your law firm, most attorneys concentrate on two numbers: revenue and profit. Is enough money coming in, and is that money covering expenses to the point where it is putting money into your pocket every month? If so, great! But in the long run, all you are doing […]
E-mails can take over your day if you let them. They keep coming in, demanding your attention. There are ways to wrangle that Inbox, but you still have to answer them. Those constant responses can take up quite a bit of your precious time. If you find yourself writing essentially the same thing in these […]