The Law Firm Associate's Guide to Personal Marketing and Selling Skills

The Law Firm Associate's Guide to Personal Marketing and Selling Skills
Author: Catherine Alman MacDonagh
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781590318300

This first volume in the Law Firm Associates Development Series focuses on personal marketing and sales skills, and will cover these topics: building a practice; how to create a personal marketing plan; how to find people within a target market; how to prepare for a prospective client meeting; strategies when meeting with clients; how to ask for business; how to use the end of a matter as a marketing opportunity; how to retain clients; and how to effectively network inside and outside the firm. Both authors currently work as Directors of Business Development in law firms where their responsibilities include extensive in-house coaching and training of attorneys at all levels. In this guidebook, they share their best advice and instruction compiled from their own experience as well as from that of many industry thought leaders.

The Law Firm Associate's Guide to Connecting with Your Colleagues

The Law Firm Associate's Guide to Connecting with Your Colleagues
Author: Barbara Black Miller
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2009
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781604424867

This second volume in the law firms associate's series will help lawyers learn how to effectively work together with their colleagues to achieve high levels of productivity and success in the law office. While work relationships can be challenging, this guide shows lawyers how to communicate and maintain positive work relationships.

Selling in Your Comfort Zone

Selling in Your Comfort Zone
Author: Robert N. Kohn
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781604426069

This book will help anyone overcome their discomfort with selling. It will help the reader achieve a fundamental shift in attitude and behavior. This guide proves that selling can be done effectively and comfortably, by motivating the reader to take action and identify strategies and tasks that they are comfortable doing.

Social Media for Lawyers

Social Media for Lawyers
Author: Carolyn Elefant
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2010
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781604429206

Many lawyers view social media as a passing fad, but lawyers who dismiss social media do so at their peril. This cutting-edge guide shows lawyers how to use a practical, goal-centric approach to social media. By enabling lawyers to identify the social media platforms and tools that fit their practice, lawyers can implement them easily, efficiently, and ethically. Written by two lawyers, this book is designed with both the novice and advanced user in mind.

The Lawyer's Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies

The Lawyer's Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies
Author: Dennis M. Kennedy
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781590319796

This first-of-its-kind legal guide showcases how to use the latest Web-based and software technologies, such as Web 2.0, Google tools, Microsoft Office, and Acrobat, to work collaboratively and more efficiently on projects with colleagues, clients, co-counsel and even opposing counsel. The book provides a wealth of information useful to lawyers who are just beginning to try collaboration tools, as well as tips and techniques for those lawyers with intermediate and advanced collaboration experience.

The 2010 Solo and Small Firm Legal Technology Guide

The 2010 Solo and Small Firm Legal Technology Guide
Author: Sharon D. Nelson
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2011-07-16
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781604428087

Computers -- Computer operating systems -- Monitors -- Computer peripherals -- Printers -- Scanners -- Servers -- Server operating systems -- Networking hardware -- Miscellaneous hardware -- Productivity software -- Security software -- Case management -- Billing software -- Litigation programs -- Document management -- Document assembly -- Collaboration -- Remote access -- Mobile security -- More about Macs -- Unified messaging and telecommunications -- Utilities -- The legal implications of social networking -- Paperless or paper LESS -- Tomorrow in legal tech.

The Lawyer's Guide to Practice Management Systems Software

The Lawyer's Guide to Practice Management Systems Software
Author: Andrew Zenas Adkins
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781604424669

What can practice management systems software do for a law practice? With the right system in place, a law firms and staff will have the ability to automatically route items, tasks, documents, and events to certain people based on their role in the case or matter, as well as manage deadlines, improve responsiveness to clients, reduce malpractice insurance rates, and boost overall productivity. The challenge is to find a program that best serves the needs of the firm.

The Lawyer's Guide to Working Smarter with Knowledge Tools

The Lawyer's Guide to Working Smarter with Knowledge Tools
Author: Marc Lauritsen
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2010
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781604428261

This ground-breaking guide introduces lawyers and other professionals to a powerful class of software that supports core aspects of legal work. The author discusses how technologies like practice systems, work product retrieval, document assembly, and interactive checklists help people work smarter. If you are looking to work more effectively, this book provides a clear roadmap, with many concrete examples and thought-provoking ideas.