Category: Books

Disaster Preparedness & Recovery Planning for Law Firms

It isn’t a question of if your firm will face a disaster but when it will. How will you and your people respond? Disaster planning is one of the most specialized, most overlooked, and most vital business planning endeavors. The goal is to develop a recovery strategy to get your firm up and running again and thus ensure its survival. This volume gives you the critical steps, including:

  • The essentials of a comprehensive recovery plan
  • How to create a team to plan the firm’s response
  • Where legal ethics and disaster planning intersect
  • Must-dos to safeguard and support your people

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The Profitable Law Office Handbook Attorney’s Guide to Successful Business Planning

A best-selling, practical guide that enables attorneys to finally take control of their financial futures.

The Profitable Law Office Handbook is loaded with charts and forms, and it presents a clear outline for: understanding the business planning process, identifying personal and law firm goals, creating a marketing plan, and creating a cash flow statement. An optional Windows95-compatible disk with forms and schedules in Excel, QuattroPro, and WordPerfect 5.1 formats.

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Secrets of the Business of Law: Successful Practices for Increasing Your Profits!

Secrets of the Business of Law: Successful Practices for Increasing Your Profits! Provides attorneys and law firms specific and practical suggestions for being more effective and making more money in the process. This new book is organized in five parts (Planning for success, Client Relations, Financial Management, Law Office Technology, and Office & Management Issues) to help lawyers learn how to:

  • Improve client relations
  • Keep clients
  • Raise revenue and lower overhead
  • Prepare for success by using a business plan
  • And much, much more!

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Collecting Your Fee

Getting Paid, From Intake to Invoice

“Ed Poll has done it again. He’s created a down-to-earth guide for lawyer to collect their unpaid bills. The book is full of practical advice such as, “if you don’t create a collection policy, your clients will create one for you.” (more…)


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