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Slack for Lawyers: Save Time and Stay Organized
You’ve likely heard of Slack—the instant messaging behemoth that has redefined workplace communication, saving employees worldwide from navigating their cluttered email inboxes. So, how exactly does Slack for lawyers work? Businesses sign up for a plan before asking employees to download the Slack app and create an account.
Business Card Designs for Attorneys-Here’s What You Should Include
Business cards are essential for law firm marketing. The most effective business card designs for attorneys aren’t just about color palettes and card stock. In addition to featuring great design and layout, law firm business cards also need to recognize an attorney’s ethical responsibilities. However, when done and used right, a business card can be a powerful way to strengthen your networking efforts—and to connect with future clients.
Clio Cloud Conference 2021: Highlights From Jack Newton’s Keynote
The Clio Cloud Conference 2021 marks the second fully virtual (but equally exciting) conference Clio is hosting. With 4,700+ attendees from over 40 countries joining remotely, the Clio Cloud Conference remains the most widely-attended event in legal. It’s where legal professionals from all over the world come to meet new like-minded people, make lasting new connections, and listen to the biggest and brightest in the industry share their insights and expertise.
How to Become a Virtual Lawyer
In recent years, lawyers are increasingly benefiting from the flexibility of remote work. As mindsets towards traditional brick-and-mortar legal offices evolve, being a virtual lawyer is becoming more common. Being a virtual lawyer comes with its perks. Because lawyers are not tethered to a traditional office, lawyers can save time, lower overhead costs, and work more efficiently. At the same time, lawyers can travel between client offices, notaries, and court offices.
3 Steps to Planning a Stress-free Summer Vacation as a Lawyer
There’s no denying it—lawyers work long hours in high-stress, competitive environments with demanding workloads. If you run your own law firm, it may be even more challenging for you to carve out time for a vacation. The truth is vacations can benefit lawyers in many ways, including improving overall mental health and stress levels. The big question is: How can lawyers like yourself plan a stress-free vacation while taking care of clients and making sure their law firms continue to run?
How to Announce Your New Law Firm
You’ve put in the work, you’ve made plans, and you’ve started a law firm. Now, it’s time to let the world (and your new firm’s future clients) know you’re ready to open for business. You need a new law firm announcement. If you’re preparing to launch a new law firm, you need a plan to announce it, build buzz, and attract clients—the following guide can help. Read on to learn how to announce a new law firm, and how your announcement can align with your existing law firm marketing plan.
How to Design Human-friendly Contracts
Every business runs on contracts, even law firms. Contracts don’t just lay out the details of an agreement; they’re a key touchpoint that governs and strengthens relationships. Unfortunately, the language used in contracts doesn’t reflect the excitement the company feels when welcoming a new employee or securing a new partnership. The joy of closing a deal or establishing a new relationship is seldom reflected in the document. This seems to compound when more and more lawyers are working remotely.
Lawyer Directories: Best Legal Directories in 2021
Why are lawyer directories essential for law firms? If acquiring new business is top of mind for your law firm, listing your law firm on legal directories can help you stand out among your competitors. Attorney directories can help make your firm easier for potential clients to find. That’s because legal directories offer more than just an online phone-book-style listing.
Lawyer Referral Marketing: A How-to Guide
Law firms rely on referrals for new business, but getting referrals isn’t always easy. Lawyer referral marketing is becoming increasingly difficult, especially with the obstacles and rapid legal industry changes brought about by the pandemic. Connecting with clients, building relationships, and asking for law firm referrals is more challenging than ever—but it’s not impossible. In the following guide, we’ll review what you need to know to help your law firm get more referrals.
How to Work With a Virtual Legal Assistant
If your law firm has not hired a virtual legal assistant before, you may be wondering why you should work with one. But if you’ve ever been overwhelmed with the sheer amount of work involved with running a legal practice, delegating work to legal virtual assistants can significantly free up your time.
Live Chat for Law Firms: 10 Best Apps
What is live chat for law firms and should lawyers like you pay attention to it? These days, a firm’s website is the new storefront. Instead of being greeted by a receptionist upon arrival, a firm can extend a virtual handshake to a potential new client via live chat through their website. This can provide potential new clients with immediate responses to commonly asked questions, support with their cases, and internal or external resources.
Top Tech Tools for Lawyers in 2021
What are the top tools for lawyers in 2021, to help them set their firms up for success this year? After the global pandemic sparked a year of change and challenges for the legal profession, many lawyers are now operating in a virtual reality—whether they’re working remotely part of the time or they’ve embraced a fully virtual law firm. Many firms have rapidly adopted more technology throughout the past year, and consumers have also done the same.
Best Law Firm Logo Designs [with Tips and Examples]
What makes law firm logos exceptional? From choosing the best law firm logo colors and fonts to hiring the right designer, creating a great legal logo design involves thorough research, thought, and understanding how to make it unique—and an accurate reflection of your brand. Not only does a great law firm logo speak volumes for your brand, but you will also be proud of using it everywhere—from your website to advertising and social media.
Lawyer Advertising Rules You Need to Know
New business is key to any law firm’s success. That’s why finding ways to reach potential new clients is essential—but you need to follow the rules when it comes to advertising as a lawyer. Following the lawyer advertising rules for your area isn’t just a good idea: It’s mandatory if you want to avoid unethical attorney advertising and the potential consequences. Knowing the lawyer advertising rules that apply to you is also critical in today’s digital age.
How to Set Lawyer Goals for Success in 2021
If you think back to this time last year, chances are that much of what you envisioned for your firm and career in 2020 has turned out different from what you expected. But that’s all the more reason to start setting your lawyer goals for 2021 now. 2020’s events have created countless problems for legal professionals—specifically, the outbreak of the global pandemic. Although some challenges driven by the pandemic are new, many are simply magnified by our new normal.
Clio This Month: Bill Message Templates + Google My Business
The feeling of community and collaboration that was shared at last month’s virtual Clio Cloud Conference was incredible, and there’s a lot still coming to help law firms succeed amidst a continually challenging year. From smart Bill Message Templates to a new way to help your firm stand out online with Google My Business and much more, this month we’re sharing the latest ways to help your law firm enhance productivity and grow your client base, and prepare for success in 2021.
Highlights from the 2020 Legal Trends Report
Since 2016, the legal professionals have relied on Clio’s annual Legal Trends Report for unbiased information and comprehensive, in-depth analyses of legal industry trends. As “one of the legal industry’s most important benchmarking tools,” as stated by Above the Law’s Joe Patrice, the 2020 Legal Trends Report is proving to be more useful than ever—especially in a year filled with sobering economic, political, and human rights challenges.
A Guide to Selecting a Lawyer Training Program
In today’s ultra-competitive legal market, continually developing your skills as a lawyer is key to success. As this year has shown us, the industry can change quickly—and lawyers that aren’t able to keep up with the latest tools and trends may be left behind. Training for lawyers is also essential for furthering your professional development.
Highlights from the 2020 Clio Cloud Conference
The 2020 Clio Cloud Conference was without a doubt our biggest and most unique event yet. As lawyer, writer, and media consultant Bob Ambrogi wrote, “The 2020 Clio Cloud Conference [moved] to a venue apropos of its name—the cloud.” With 4,500+ attendees from over 45 countries joining remotely, the eighth annual Clio Cloud Conference—and the first virtual one—was as immersive, eye-opening, and thought-provoking as ever.
Clio Cloud Conference 2020: Highlights From Jack Newton’s Keynote
With 4,500+ attendees from over 45 countries joining remotely, the eighth annual Clio Cloud Conference—and the first virtual one—is looking different this year. Acknowledging 2020’s sobering economic, political, and humanitarian challenges, Clio CEO and Co-Founder Jack Newton delivered an inspiring keynote that covered Clio’s vision for the future of legal services, recent additions to Clio’s product offering, and findings from the newly released 2020 Legal Trends Report.
A Guide to Document Automation for Lawyers
Legal professionals know that lawyering often involves tedious paperwork. That’s when document automation (also known as document assembly) and management come in. Document automation allows lawyers like you to save time—in particular, time spent on creating documents—by using information already collected about your client’s case to populate letters and forms. This can include information such as the name and address of your client, details about the opposing party, and key dates.
Law Firm Strategic Planning: A Guide
Law firm strategic planning may not be your top priority right now—especially with the current global pandemic and recession in mind. With pressing issues at hand, it can be challenging to step back and think about what the future will look like for your law firm. However, whether you’re a solo lawyer or have some partners at your small firm, law firm strategic planning is more critical than ever now.
Why You Need Microsoft Office 365 and Clio for Your Law Firm
As a legal professional, you probably know why Microsoft Office 365 for law firms is essential to a firm’s daily operations. With apps like Outlook, OneDrive, Office 365 Calendar, and Microsoft Teams, Microsoft’s suite of business tools is a great way to move away from cumbersome paper files and inefficient processes. But how do you make your tools matter-centric and specific to your legal workflows? That’s where Clio comes in.
Organization for Lawyers: How to Get Your Practice Organized
Organization for lawyers can be tough—especially in such high-stress, high-performing environments. If your desk has disappeared under a chaotic pile of papers, or if you often find yourself spending too much time searching for client files, read this post for some valuable suggestions on how to get organized as a legal professional. And if you find yourself inadvertently missing billable hours on invoices because you’re not regularly tracking time, fret not.
What to Expect at Your First Virtual Legal Conference
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most legal conferences taking place in the foreseeable future have gone virtual. This brings a different experience than one might normally see. For example, hugs and in-person chats will be replaced with smiles over video calls and clever virtual backgrounds. If you’re a lawyer or legal professional attending a virtual conference for the first time, you might not know what to expect. What will hours of virtual presentations be like?
Why the Time Is Now to Become a Freelance Attorney
The legal industry is evolving, and so is the paradigm of what it means to be a successful lawyer. For many attorneys, looking beyond the traditional law firm model makes sense at this moment. This is sparking a new rise in the prevalence of freelance attorneys. Becoming a freelance lawyer lets you leverage your experience and law degree to your advantage.
Lead Generation for Lawyers: A Guide
Lead generation for lawyers can be a challenging concept and process. Lead generation may even seem like a foreign concept that’s just for “people in sales.” But it’s absolutely critical for your law firm to create a reliable lead generation pipeline, as lead generation is essential to your law firm’s business development strategy, and contributes to its cash flow, financial health, and business growth.
How to Write a Cover Letter for Law Firms That Gets You Noticed
Whether you’re just starting out or you’re an experienced legal professional seeking a new role, there’s no way around it: If you’re looking for a job at a law firm in our current economic climate, you’re in for a challenge. But with the right technique and tools, that challenge is not insurmountable.
Best Legal Podcasts for Lawyers in 2020
With so many legal podcasts available, searching for the best ones to listen to can be time-consuming. If you’re already a fan of law podcasts—and if you’re someone who spends up to 17 hours listening to podcasts each week—you’d probably rather be spending your time listening to the best legal podcasts, instead of having to shop around. It’s no wonder why legal podcasts are getting increasingly popular with lawyers.
How to Improve Law Firm Cash Flow During a Crisis
Welcome to 2020, where cash may not always rule, especially when practicing social distancing. But law firm cash flow is absolutely critical, especially as we enter what very much looks like a recession triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. As a law firm business owner during a crisis, you’re most likely focused on protecting your firm and staff and understanding the financial implications of the recession on your business.
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