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Building Trust With New Managing Partner THE NEWSLETTER FOR LEGAL OFFICE MANAGERS LAW OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR Volume XVI / Number 11 NOVEMBER 2007 (Reprinted with permission of Ardmore Publishing Company)   How to Meet, Greet, And Win Respect From A New Managing Partner There’s a new sheriff in town. Well, new managing partner anyway. And in most firms, the managing part­ner ascends to the position with scarcely any experi&...

Law Firm Profitability: Leveraging Associates & Paralegals THE NEWSLETTER FOR LEGAL OFFICE MANAGERS LAW OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR Volume XVII / Number 5 MAY 2008 (Reprinted with permission of Ardmore Publishing Company)   Leverage The Work For More Income And More Profit But It May Take Some Partner Prodding Want to improve the profits? Get the partners to stop hogging the work. There’s more money to be had by funnelling w...

How To Get Attorneys To Submit Billing Hours On Time THE NEWSLETTER FOR LEGAL OFFICE MANAGERS LAW OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR Volume XVIII / Number 6 JUNE 2009 (Reprinted with permission of Ardmore Publishing Company)   Some Pokes And Prods To Get The Billers To Turn In Time On Time Late bills spell lost revenue. Time needs to come in and bills need to go out no less frequently than weekly. Let it go beyond that, “and the losses...

Performance Evaluation for Members of Law Firm Staff Performance evaluation should go way beyond the tried and the old principles to be truly effective. One should treat this process as an opportunity rather than as a perfunctory exercise. First, to value the person being evaluated; and second, to share and engage the employee in the firm’s vision and goals. People are valuable. A reputation for competent and timely work can also make r...