Legal
The legal billing checklist law firms can use to increase realization rates
Category: Blog, Legal, Small Business I didn’t get the outcome I wanted, so I’m not going to pay you. Sound familiar? Law firm McCarter & English sued their client to collect $2 million in legal fees from a client who lost at trial. It’s a scenario that’s replayed daily throughout the country. When it comes to
Local Search for Lawyers: How Online Visibility Leads to Clients
Category: Blog, Legal, Running Your Business You have a big problem. Your clients can’t tell you and your competitors apart. If you’re reading this, you’re probably an experienced attorney. You know the law. You know how things work inside this complicated legal system of ours. Your clients on the other hand, don’t. Their expectations tend to be simple, naive
Anatomy of an Invoice: Best Practices for Client Billing in the Legal Industry
Category: Accounting, Blog, Legal Do your clients ignore your bill? Is it a hassle to get your invoices paid completely or on time? Maybe lost billables have been a problem for your firm? If so, your invoices may be to blame. Your invoice has a tremendous amount of power. In the right hands, it’s
Business development is a challenge for the vast majority of law firms. According to an Altman Weil survey, 83.4 percent of firms listed “weak business development skills/efforts” as the main reason for chronic underperformance in their law firms. But it’s an issue most attorneys are already aware of. An Intapp
How to protect your law firm from insider threats
Category: Blog, Legal, Small Business He stole from their clients. A law firm employee stole the identities of 20 clients. Working with several accomplices, this employee went on a “theft spree,” stealing $170,000 in cash, expensive clothing, jewelry and an additional $31,000 from a local Neiman Marcus. Think about that for a moment. A law
Law Firm Data Breach: What To Do When The Worst Happens
Category: Blog, Legal “I am convinced that there are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked and those that will be. And even they are converging into one category: companies that have been hacked and will be hacked again.” Then-FBI director Robert Mueller shared these sobering words at the 2012