Hate tracking time?  It’s completely understandable. Attorneys have much better things to do with their time, like defending and protecting their clients. Here’s the problem.  Tracking time is a necessary evil.  It’s how attorneys, law firms and support teams get paid. The surprising part about all of this, if you

KaroshiLegal Practice management demands automationUnpleasant Downsides for the unpreparedDownside #1Downside #2 What’s your billable goal?  Is it 1,950 billable hours per year? 2,500 billable hours? 3,000? Attorneys are driven to produce more billable work in less time. Thanks to industry disruption and pressure from the competition, firms are demanding more

It’s no secret, everyone hates timekeeping.  No two attorneys track their time the same way. They use a wide variety of formats, billing increments and details in their time entries. It’s a nightmare for managing partners and administrators to sort through.  You didn’t sign up for this.  Managing partners aren’t

By Andrew McDermott When it comes to legal software, most firms are hampered by mistakes that threaten their firm’s future earnings. Here’s the caveat with these problems. They’re not obvious.  What’s worse, these mistakes aren’t mentioned upfront at all. If you’re not aware of these mistakes, you won’t know to

Why are lawyers so expensive?  This was a question posed to the pundits at Law Crossing. It’s a question floating in the back of your client’s mind.  It’s a question that’s often brushed off.  But it shouldn’t be. That question rears its ugly head again at a very unfortunate time

“It’s foolish to follow trends.” After all, you have a law firm to run. You have client matters to attend to, employees you’ll need to manage and the logistics of successful practice management. Trends are the absolute last thing on your mind. But trends management is one of the first