Here are some recent articles of interest that I found this week related to law practice management, law technology, and legal marketing. Enjoy!
Working Remotely: Managing Solitude
Working remotely has many benefits as we’ve discussed in this series. It can also be lonely. If you’re working from home, it’s you, the computer and the four walls.
Contrast that with being surrounded by people on your commute to and from work, drop-bys and lunch with co-workers, and meetings with clients and visitors. But, it doesn’t have to be lonely. Here are a few tips to stay engaged and keep loneliness at bay while maintaining the kind of productivity that makes working away from the office appealing. Read more here…
Worst Times To Post To Your Law Firm Social Networks
When is the best time to post to your social networks? When is the worst time to post? If you’re going to take the time to post to social media networks such as LinkedIn, Google+, Twitter and Facebook, you want to certainly want to see some action – people reading your post, clicking through to your blog to read more or checking out a link that you referred/recommended. Read more here…
3 Ways To Get More Out Of Every Single Hour
Time is a key resource that we simply cannot replenish. The 24 hours of each day are all we are given—once spent, these hours are lost forever. This means that if you’re struggling to fit all of your priorities and “to-dos” into your day, it’s time to look for methods to use those hours and minutes more effectively. Here are a few research-backed suggestions that can help you make the most of the time you have. Read more here…
Will 2014 Be One of the Worst Years for Law Firms?
As part of our first quarter Legal Analytics activities, we’ve been analyzing invoice data for 2013 and the early part of 2014. While there were some expected trends, I’ve been genuinely startled by some of what we’ve learned. Our data shows that demand for legal services, as measured by billed fees, was fairly flat across the industry from 2012 to 2013. And it confirms one of the things we in the industry have observed anecdotally for some time: work for outside counsel is moving from the largest Am Law 100 firms, whose fees were up less than a third of a percent, to smaller ones, with Am Law 101-200 firms showing a 4.9% increase and Unranked firms seeing a 2.5% rise. Read more here…
Thank you for reading (and sharing). Stay tuned for next week’s weekly review for Law Practice Tips!
