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
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.
Click here for The Profitable Law Office Handbook Table of Contents.
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!
Click here for the Secrets of Business Law Table of Contents.
Attorney & Law Firm Guide to The Business of Law
Do you want to:
- Be more successful by design than by accident?
- Be more profitable?
- Attract more clients?
- Have your clients pay on time?
- Have greater control of your practice?
- Have greater peace of mind?
If your answer is yes to any one of these questions, you must read this book. Ed Poll had simplified the mystical process of operating a law practice so anyone can be more effective with his/her clients and become more profitable.
This expanded edition adds 27 new chapters on marketing, personnel issues, technology, time management, clients' trust accounting, opening a new office, and changing from one practice to another. As the author says in his Preface to the Second Edition, "when we lawyers act in a more business-like manner, we tend to be more effective in the delivery of our services." The many ready-to-use forms and charts are available on a disk in Word Perfect, Excel and Quattro Pro formats.
Take the first step in achieving a more successful practice - order today to get your own copy of the expanded Second Edition of Attorney and Law Firm Guide to the Business of Law today!
- Click here for the Business of Law Table of Contents.
- Read the review from ABA's Law Practice Management magazine.
- Read the review in July, 2002 issue of Update, the magazine of the Los Angeles chapter of the Association of Legal Administrators.
"The Business of Law (2nd. ed., 2003) might be the most practical and informative book I have read in 10 years, honestly."
-- Atty, Dallas, TX
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."
The book offers lots of good advice on engagement letters, detailed bills, fee agreements and intake forms. Plus it's loaded with useful forms.
CD contains forms for intake, engagement letters, status report, budget, sample bills and collection letters, accounts receivable aging reports and more.
If you read this book, you'll have a lot less trouble getting paid for your work."
-- Larry Bodine, Web and Marketing Consultant
