LOMAP Lending Library
Titles by Alphabetical Order, with description
(replacement fees in parentheses)
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ABA Guide to Lawyer Trust Accounts ($90)
This book teaches lawyers how to manage client trust accounts to comply with ethical and statutory requirements. Contains sample form letters and reports that can be modified and used by a law firm.
Accounting & Finance for Lawyers ($55)
This text is designed around the accounting and finance necessary to manage a legal practice. A wide range of topics is covered, from procedures that can be used to protect your business assets, to whether you should lease or buy your office space or equipment.
America's Greatest Places to Work with a Law Degree and how to make the most of any job, no matter where it is! ($25.00)
Discover hundreds of extraordinary places to work- law firms, corporations, government agencies, advocacy groups, and much more. To track down America's greatest places to work with a law degree, author Kimm Alayne Walton talked to hundreds of law school administrators and lawyer employees all over the country. Even if you aren't sure what your dream job really is, reading about what makes other people happy might help you decide what you'd enjoy doing.
Amicus Attorney in One Hour for Lawyers ($45)
Here is the clear, concise information you need to maximize Amicus's powerful file manager, contact manager, calendar, time sheets, and call center features. Author Dave Bilinsky includes more than 100 screen shots that support the book's easy explanations, as well as a variety of real-world examples. This book also provides helpful guidance for integrating Amicus Attorney into Word and WordPerfect, as well as dozens of keyboard shortcuts!
Anatomy of a Law Firm Merger — How to Make or Break the Deal — Third Edition ($95)
This revised and updated Third Edition of Anatomy of a Law Firm Merger by Hildebrandt International provides you and your firm — no matter what size or type of practice — with the expert advice on what you need to consider when contemplating a merger, and how to successfully make it happen. The Third Edition now features a completely updated financial perspective for today's changing financial picture, plus a revised discussion of the economic balance sheet - to help quantify the value each firm brings to the merger. In addition, there is all new material on integrating hard assets into the merger, and newly updated technology information.
Applying Total Quality Management to the Law Office ($89)
Many lawyers have heard of Total Quality Management (TQM) and are aware that manufacturing companies and some service organizations have adopted TQM programs. These same lawyers, however, often have difficulty grasping how the Total Quality principles can apply to the practice of law. This book is designed to show how and why the Total Quality Service (TQP) programs can differentiate law firms from their competitors by providing better total services to their clients.
Attorney and Law Firm Guide to the Business of Law: Planning and Operating for Survival and Growth ($75)
A comprehensive guide to developing, implementing and evaluating a business plan. Describes the components of marketing and financial plans and outlines the steps to take to implement them. Includes forms.
The Attorney's Guide to the Microsoft Office System ($20)
The Microsoft® Office System is the most popular desktop suite of personal productivity tools and technologies. Because the Microsoft Office suite of tools is so comprehensive, it can be challenging for people in certain professions to understand how to use Office to perform tasks specific to their job. This book focuses on the tasks an Attorney performs every day — rather than the all too common software-centric approach that many other technology books habitually adopt. Other Microsoft Office books on the market for the legal profession are often difficult to understand because they largely address an Information Technology (IT) audience, cover too many professions in a single book, or are so large (more than 800 pages) as to be overwhelming. This book was written with attorneys in mind. In fact, this book was developed by consulting and interviewing industry experts, legal trainers, technology experts, paralegals, and of course, attorneys. The authors learned exactly which topics were most troublesome for attorneys, and made sure to explain them thoroughly.
This book covers the use of these Microsoft Office System products for Attorneys:
-Microsoft® Word 2003
-Microsoft® Excel 2003
-Microsoft® Outlook 2003
-Microsoft® PowerPoint 2003
-Microsoft® OneNote 2003
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Becoming Computer Literate ($50)
Practical information and guidance that will take a great deal of the mystery and confusion out of computer use. You'll get tips on getting the most from your PC dollar, publications to check out before you buy, automating a substantive area of your practice, low-end networking, and getting used to handling electronic information.
Beyond the Billable Hour: An Anthology of Alternative Billing Methods ($35)
This classic book from the ABA Law Practice Management Section is soon to be out of print. If you are interested at all in alternative billing methods this book is a must read! Edited by Richard C. Reed, former senior lawyer in the Reed McClure Law Firm in Seattle, Washington, this book gives you ideas of how to set fees for legal services that are fair to the clients and to the lawyer.
Billing Innovations: New Win-Win Ways to End Hourly ($120)
The author, Richard Reed, reports on the new value billing and pricing methods currently in use among solo, small, medium and large firms. In addition, he shows how to implement innovative billing procedures in a firm, how to overcome resistance to change, and how to integrate strategic planning, quality control, compensation, and technology systems to produce an environment where value billing methods can succeed.
BizPlan Builder: tools to write a winning business plan ($41)
Background information, instructions and worksheets for preparing each section of your business plan. The worksheets lead you through the thought process and writing process for each section.
Breaking Traditions: Work Alternatives for Lawyers ($85)
This book will help lawyers negotiate a nontraditional work situation that is financially viable to the employer, personally satisfying, and also fair to other co-workers and clients. Includes 47 chapters that examine the broad issues, economics, and options to create a more flexible legal workplace.
Business Competency for Lawyers ($35)
You don't need an M.B.A. degree to run a law-firm — but to be profitable, you do need to know the basic business principles in this book. You will discover:
* Planning for your success
* Turning billable hours into collected cash
* Building a more profitable firm
* Thinking more creatively about The Business of Law
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Careers in Law (3rd edition) ($16.00)
Expert guidance on exploring and choosing the perfect job for you!
From politicians such as Honest Abe to fictitious pitbulls such as Perry Mason to high-profile defense attorneys ready for their close-up on Court-TV, lawyers have been and continue to be American icons. But the American legal profession is much more complex than these stereotypes would suggest, having evolved into a specialized field with diverse opportunities for dedicated individuals.
Before you invest your time, money, and effort pursuing a legal career, let Careers in Law provide you with an accurate portrayal of what various specialties entail as well as tips for finding and keeping the job that's right for you. Whether your interest lies in a solo practice, corporate team, or nonprofit agency, this updated edition will help you:
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of the legal profession throughout history
- Match your skills and personality to the law specialty that's right for you--environmental, labor, entertainment, and much more
- Assess your qualifications and create a professional game plan for success
- Prioritize your law school options and determine how to finance your education
- Familiarize yourself with current salaries, benefits, and the best job prospects
With its detailed descriptions of all facets of the field, Careers in Law will prepare you for what to expect and what to project in order to succeed in the legal profession, no matter which path you choose.
Changing Jobs: A Handbook for Lawyers in the New Millennium ($55)
Benefit from the expertise of nearly 50 recognized experts in the field of career planning and placement. Included are such topics as the warning signs of a layoff and how to prepare for it, what to put in a cover letter, sample resumes, where and how to find a job, the top 10 things to do when forming your own firm, and much more.
Collecting Your Fee: Getting Paid from Intake to Invoice ($80)
It is possible to change from hourly based billing to a system that fairly and accurately charges for legal services. This book explains which alternative billing methods are right for your practice, and how your firm can implement the appropriate changes. Written for any size firm. Comes with diskette containing sample forms, templates and other examples.
Compensation Plans for Law Firms (Fourth Edition) ($95)
In this revised fourth ediction, you'll find complete and systematic guidance on how to establish workable plans for compensating partners and associates as well as other contributors to the firm, including paralegals, clerical staff, and other professional staff members. You'll learn how to align your firm's compensation plans with your culture, business objectives, and market realities. The book also explores the long-term shift away from single-employer careers and workers mobility, and how your firm can take advantage of this trend. Other key concepts such as value billing, tiered ownership, and deferred compensation are also considered.
Complete Guide to Contract Lawyering ($30)
What every lawyer and law firm needs to know about temporary legal services. The legal profession, like the general business environment, is shifting to a new practice model, one in which permanent associations of lawyers (firms) will be more flexible, and temporary associations with other lawyers more common. This deep restructuring has already begun, and affects tens of thousands of lawyers, law firms, and in-house legal department. In this fast-moving environment, The Complete Guide to Contract Lawyering describes how and why lawyering temping has gone mainstream, and how you (or your organization) can take advantage of it.
The Complete Guide to Designing Your Law Office ($130)
Your office space is part of your firm's image, but it must also be functional. Whether you're planning a new office or remodeling your current office (with or without the assistance of a design consultant), you'll learn how to create or change your space while avoiding needless disruption, chaos, and cost overruns. The authors set out the best approaches for designing every area in the law office, including offices and work stations, conference rooms and reception areas, and more. You'll be guided through every step of the process, from determining your optimal square footage, to selecting the right security systems and technology, to hiring and working with movers.
In addition, helpful checklists, schedules, and other documents are included on an accompanying CD-ROM to make your renovation or relocation as easy as possible.
Complete Guide to Marketing Your Law Practice ($65)
Edited by Hollis Hatfield Weishar and James A. Durham, this book shares the secrets of the country's best legal marketers. Included are practical ideas, outlines, strategies, sample worksheets, marketing plans and much more. If you want to establish a successful, profit-enhancing marketing program in your office, then this is the book for you!
Complete Internet Handbook for Lawyers by Jerry Lawson ($45)
This book helps lawyers make the most of the Internet by providing a general orientation to the Internet, a source of nuts-and-bolts advice on how the Internet works and a reference manual of technical information.
Computerized Case Management Systems ($60)
Choosing and implementing the right software for you. Gives an overview of what case management systems can do, evaluates a large number of case management applications and charts the major features of each program in an easy to reference format.
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The Digital Practice of Law ($50)
This book takes a comprehensive approach to using technology in the law office. The goal of this book is to approach the technology implementation from a "total" approach. All aspects of a case - case management, billing, interrogatories, documents, transcripts, graphics, Internet applications, in-court presentation and so on are discussed in this book to provide an understanding of how the pieces fit together. This total approach is intended to place you in the center of your case with instant computer access to the law and facts for your analysis.
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Easy Self-Audits for the Busy Law Office ($65)
An easy-to-use, comprehensive book to help lawyers help themselves through the use of self-audits. This book helps to pinpoint precisely the source of office management problems and to devise meaningful solutions to fix the problem identified through the audit process.
Effective Yellow Pages Advertising for Lawyers ($65)
Yellow Pages advertising is very competitive, highly regulated, and sometimes complicated. Many lawyers advertise in the same arena for the same business. An effective ad can be the engine that drives your client development programs forward. Learn how to write ads that will enable you to attract new business to your practice by creating advertising that gets attention, holds attention, and most importantly, gets potential clients to call.
Electronic Records Retention ($45)
Written for records managers as an introduction to computerized records retention. This book will help to develop and implement strategies for purging useless electronic documents and data from computer systems and for assuring their long-term preservation if required.
The E Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About it ($16.00)
Gerber walks you through the steps in the life of a business—from entrepreneurial infancy through adolescent growing pains to the mature entrepreneurial perspective; the guiding light of all businesses that succeed—and shows how to apply the lessons of franchising to any business, whether or not it is a franchise. Most importantly, Gerber draws the vital, often overlooked distinction between working on your business and working in your business.
The E-Myth Revisited will help you grow your business in a productive, assured way.
Essential Formbook Vol 1: Partnership & Fee Agreements, Client Intake ($200)This book gathers into one, easy-to-use resource all the essential forms that every law practitioner uses on a daily basis. All the forms are also available on diskette, so its easy to modify them to match your office's needs. Specifically, this volume addresses client intake procedures and partnership agreements, providing valuable checklists and forms such as: Hourly Fee Agreements, Partial Fixed Fee Agreement, Standard Contingent Agreement, Non-Engagement Letters and many more! With dozens of time-saving forms, this books has what you need to ensure your practice runs at maximum efficiency.
Essential Formbook Vol 2: Human Resources, Fees, Billing and Collection ($200)
This book gathers into one, easy-to-use resource all the essential forms that every law practitioner uses on a daily basis. All the forms are also available on diskette, so its easy to modify them to match your office's needs. Specifically, this volume addresses Human Resources, and covers the hiring process, training and development, compensation, and discipline and termination. Part 2 of Volume II covers Fees, Billing, and Collection and includes measuring billing practices, hourly billing, pricing legal services, alternative fee agreements, engagement letters, and managing the billing process.
Essential Formbook Vol 3: Calendar, Docket and File Management. Law Firm Financial Analysis ($200) This work addresses the following fundamental problems: many lawyers are not familiar with the options for docket, calendar, file, and document controls, nor are they cognizant of basic financial management tools, despite the fact that they deal with these matters every day. This book is designed to help lawyers and firms meet the dual goals of helping lawyers serve their clients better and making law practice more profitable, while at the same time reducing the risk of professional error.
Essential Formbook Vol 4: Disaster Planning and Recovery, Risk Management and Professional Liability Insurance ($200) Part I, Disaster Planning and Recovery, covers the nature of disaster, planning for disaster, and the recovery afterward. If disaster strikes, having a disaster plan in place can make or break a law firm as it struggles to survive. To the extent that it is possible, firms need to plan for disaster, protecting themselves and their clients against both natural and manmade disaster. Firms must consider how they will deal with loss of life, property damage, interruptions in communications and other vital services, and lapses in their ability to serve clients during and after a disaster. The disaster plan should anticipate worst-case scenarios that can affect a firm's ability to function, to generate work, and to provide legal support for clients who might also be affected by the disaster. In addition to the text over 50 valuable checklists, worksheets, lists, and other forms are provided—including a Disaster Recovery Plan outline—ready to implement. Also supplied on the accompanying CD-ROM, the forms are easy to customize to meet the specifications of any firm.
Part II, Risk Management and Professional Liability Insurance, addresses professional liability insurance for lawyers in the context of planning for the risk of professional error inherent in every legal representation. The explanatory text is designed to help lawyers and law firms de-mystify the often unfamiliar world of malpractice insurance. It will help lawyers to better understand what lawyers professional liability (LPL) coverage policies contain, how they work to provide risk protection, and what to expect in purchasing LPL coverage. In addition, it will help lawyers evaluate their existing coverage and present themselves most effectively to insurers when seeking renewal or new coverage. Lawyers professional liability coverage has become a practical necessity, and viewed with the proper perspective, can provide substantial peace of mind in a troublesome climate. Forms in this part include sample Lawyers Professional Liability Policies and applications.
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Financial Planning for You & Your Clients: What Every Lawyer Should Know About Insurance, Investments, Estate Planning & Taxes ($90)
Designed to help you and your clients make decisions and reach financial goals. This book guides you through financial planning, money management, insurance, investments, income taxation, retirement planning and estate planning. Includes survey forms, sample letters, charts, illustrations and formulas.
F1rst Among Equals; How to Manage a Group of Professionals ($25.00)
Competently managing a group of peers is unquestionably among the most difficult of workplace tasks, but key steps that produce success are laid out so clearly by consultants Patrick J. McKenna and David H. Maister in First Among Equals that even those who completely lack experience should find the process feasible and effective. McKenna and Maister focus on leading teams of professionals--often composed of people who don't feel like they are part of a team or in need of leadership--by transforming the way managers assume responsibility and direct members. "Success in helping your group succeed is mostly about you. Not them," they write. Their book starts by explaining how to prepare for the job ahead, for example, by meeting informally with participants and displaying sincere interest in things that matter to them. It then explores coaching the individuals involved (offering methods for gaining acceptance, building rapport, assisting underperformers and dealing with prima donnas) and guiding the collective group (by developing rules, building trust, invigorating meetings, and resolving conflicts). Finally, it proposes measures for continued success, such as integrating new hires and gauging performance.
Flying Solo, A Survival Guide for the Solo and Small Firm Lawyer – Fourth Edition ($100)
Newly revised and completely updated, the fourth edition of this comprehensive guide includes practical information gathered from a wide range of contributors, including successful solo practitioners, law firm consultants, state and local bar practice management advisors, and law school professors. All the contributors share tips and advice that can be easily implemented in your solo or small-firm practice.
This classic ABA book first walks you through a step-by-step analysis of the decision to start a solo practice, including choosing a practice focus. It then provides tools to help you with financial issues including banking and billing; operations issues such as staffing and office location and design decisions; technology for the small law office; and marketing and client relations. What's more, the final section on quality of life issues puts it all into perspective. Whether you're thinking of going solo, new to the solo life, or a seasoned practitioner, Flying Solo provides time-tested answers to real-life questions.
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Guide to Setting Up and Running Your Law Office ($45)
Practical guide to avoiding malpractice through efficient office systems.
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Handling Personnel Issues in the Law Office ($55)
Summarizes the key federal employment laws applicable to lawyers and laws firms as employers. Provides tips for hiring and firing and assists in developing productive and effective communication techniques to improve morale and lessen employee turnover.
HotDocs in One Hour for Lawyers ($45)
Author, Bruce Miller, walks you through the "how to's" of using the HotDocs program with your word processing software. This easy-to-read guide will enable you to turn documents into templates that can be used as automated forms.
How to Build and Manage an Employment Law Practice ($65)
How to Build and Manage an Employment Law Practice provides you with practical, real-world advice from an employment law expert, covering situations ranging from the initial client consultation to the pros and cons of solo versus group practice. Plus, you'll get samples of the most common letters and agreements used in employment law as well as general practice, including demand letters, the EEOC charging document, and much more.
How to Build and Manage an Estates Practice -Second Edition ($65)
Specifically tailored to the unique needs of estates and trusts lawyers, this completely updated and revised second edition of How to Build and Manage an Estates Practice focuses on making your firm better. Written as a "book of ideas," you'll find guidance on marketing, effective client communications, fee agreements, and ethics, including the updates to the American Bar Association's Model Rules of Professional Conduct and a complete analysis of the Department of Treasury Circular 230 issued in 2005.
How To Draft Bills Clients Rush to Pay ($60)
Learn the right combination of words to persuade a client that a fee is reasonable and learn some very interesting reasons why some clients don't return bills!
How To Get and Keep Good Clients by Jay G. Foonberg ($94)
This book contains practical, time-proven tips and techniques which a professional must use for both long range and immediate practice development success.
How to Set Up and Implement a Records Management System ($33)
Records management is a powerful, yet underused tool for making an organization leaner and more competitive. Now you can learn how to create a highly effective, cost-efficient records management system by following the practical guidelines outline in this book. Designed especially for the novice, this groundbreaking guide is the first to describe every step of the process, including how to: conduct a records management evaluation, analyze the data and prepare recommendations, inventory records and handle disposal, set up a records center off-site, prepare a companywide filing system, evaluate various image-reduction options.
How to Start and Build a Law Practice by Jay G. Foonberg ($48)
This book tells you what you need to know to start a practice and make it grow. Major topic areas include getting started, selecting the best location, selecting the best equipment-everything from stationery and furniture to computers, updates on technology, getting and keeping clients, the dos and don'ts of billing, and the basics of managing the office. Includes many stock forms and templates.
How to Write a BUSINESS PLAN (Includes Fill-In-The Blank Financial Forms & Sample Business Plan) ($32)
Designed to help you write a first-rate business plan and loan application. Contains detailed forms and step-by-step instructions designed to help you prepare a well thought-out, well organized plan. It shows you how to apply proven financial and business techniques used by traditional lenders and investors to your benefit.
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An Introduction to Law ($20)
For lawyers and nonlawyers, a unified version of Common Law and Continental European Law, Public and Private Law, and National, Supranational, and International Law. Written by Augustin Gordillo and preface by Spyridon Flogaitis, the director of the European Public Law Center.
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Law Office Policy and Procedures Manual ($110)
Updated and expanded! With this new Fourth Edition, you'll find everything you need to create a complete, customized staff manual that can serve as a reference guide for current staff and a training tool for new employees, associates, and temp workers. The book includes a diskette of all of the text — simply edit and revise to create and update your own manual.
Law Office Procedures Manual for Solos and Small Firms-Third Edition ($80)
This newly revised edition provides everything you need to develop and compile a succinct, comprehensive procedures manual, geared toward the unique management issues of a solo or small firm. This step-by-step guide offers direction on setting policy and procedures for your firm, and provides sample language and documents, both in the text and on the accompanying CD-ROM, to allow for easy customization. Proper implementation of sound policies and procedures will help ensure your firm operates efficiently, resulting in optimal delivery of legal services to your clients.
Law Office Staff Manual For Solos and Small Firms ($70)
A working document to help solo and small firm practitioners set up their law office staff manuals. This book can be modified for a particular practice environment. Includes a diskette containing the text of the manual in WordPerfect 5.1 and ASCII formats.
LAW PARTNERSHIP: Its Rights and Responsibilities, Second Edition ($150)
Whether you're aspiring to partnership or have been a partner for many years, this new and expanded edition of Law Partnership is a practical, readable guide that will help you anticipate and avoid problems you may encounter as a partner. It provides in-depth analysis of the law governing relations among partners and between partners and their firms and employees.
Lawyer's Desk Guide to Legal Malpractice ($85)
This is an easy-to-use malpractice prevention and insurance guide to help lawyers identify their malpractice exposure, maximize the efficiency of their practice and minimize the risk of malpractice claims.
Lawyer's Guide to Adobe Acrobat ($60)
As more and more court systems move to permit electronic filings, Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) is fast becoming the standard for their file systems. This book is your guide to maximizing Adobe Acrobat for the law office and presenting dynamic documents that allow you to communication your facts and arguments like never before. Author David Masters takes readers step by step through the processes of creating PDF documents and then working with these documents. In subsequent chapters, Masters covers adding document navigation aids, commenting tools, using digital signatures, extracting content from PDF documents, searching and indexing, document security, saving Web pages to PDF, plug-ins, display mode, e-briefs, using Acrobat in the paperless office, and more.
The Lawyer's Guide to Balancing Life & Work ($25)
The Lawyer's Guide to Balancing Life and Work, Second Edition is about how the law fits inside you, not how you fit inside the law. Making space for creativity and passion within your current workplace and at home can yield enormous emotional rewards. But, you must first make a conscious decision to shift your perceptions. To accept that, while you can't have it all, you can create a life that reflects your creativity and values.
Inside this essential guide, you'll find dozens of exercises and tools designed to bring the balance — and passion — back into your life, including how to:
—Craft a life-affirming vision statement and incorporate it into your daily activities
—Develop an action plan for making effective change
—Define the values in your life
Interactive exercises are provided throughout the text and on the accompanying CD-ROM, to help you discover how to reclaim your life. New lawyers, seasoned veterans, and those who have personal relationships to lawyers will all benefit from this insightful book.
The Lawyer's Guide to Buying, Selling, Merging, and Closing a Law Practice ($100)
If you are considering buying, selling, closing, or merging a law practice, this book is a valuable resource for information on things to consider before and during the process.
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The guide provides advice and tips on:
The advantages of buying and selling a law practice
The ethical aspects of acquiring a law practice
Valuation of a law firm
Tax consequences of "retiring" a partner's interest in a law firm taxed as a partnership
Merging law firms
Selling a niche practice
Business responsibilities in closing a law practice
The ethical aspects of winding down a law practice
File preservation
Ending client and employee relationships
The guide includes handy checklists, forms, sample agreements, and sample letters as well as a material from the ABA's Model Rules of Professional Conduct.
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The Lawyer's Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies (Smart Ways to Work Together) ($90)
This first-of-its-kind guide for the legal profession shows you how to use standard technology you already have and the latest "Web 2.0" resources and other tech tools, like Google Docs, Microsoft Office and SharePoint, and Adobe Acrobat, to work more effectively on projects with colleagues, clients, co-counsel and even opposing counsel. In The Lawyer's Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies: Smart Ways to Work Together, well-known legal technology authorities Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell provides a wealth of information useful to lawyers who are just beginning to try these tools, as well as tips and techniques for those lawyers with intermediate and advanced collaboration experience.
Collaboration technologies and tools are the most important current developments in legal technology and are likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. Explained with minimal technical jargon, the book focuses on highly practical and usable ideas that you can put to work straight away.
With practical advice on how to use specific tools and concrete action steps to take, lawyers and law firms at all levels will benefit from working together better.
You'll learn:
· The basics of collaboration and collaboration tools
· How to select and implement tools and strategies
· The best ways to collaborate on documents, cases, transactions, and projects
· How to collaborate inside and outside the office
· How to collaborate using tools you already have or own
Technology now makes it easier than ever to work with others -- this is the first guide dedicated to the special requirements of the legal world with the practical steps it takes to do it right.
The Lawyer's Guide to Creating Persuasive Computer Presentations ($80)
Discover the advantages of computer presentation resources, how to use them, what they can do, and the legal issues involved in their use. Learn how to use computer presentations in the courtroom, during opening statements, direct examination, cross examination, closing arguments, appellate arguments, and more. Brenden and Goodhue also offer advice on using computer presentations outside the courtroom, during meetings, pretrial, and seminars.
This revised second edition has been updated to include new chapters on hardware and software that is currently being used for digital displays, and all new sections that walk the reader through beginning skills, and some advanced techniques, in using Microsoft® PowerPoint®. Also included is a CD-ROM containing on-screen tutorials illustrating techniques such as animating text, creating zoomed call-out images, insertion and configuration of text and images, and much more. In addition, the CD-ROM contains a full sample PowerPoint final argument complete with audio, checklists, and help files for using trial presentation software, as well as several sample PowerPoint presentations, including one entitled "Top Five Mistakes Using PowerPoint."
The Lawyer's Guide to Effective Yellow Pages Advertising, Second Edition ($60)
This book by Kerry Randall, "the world's foremost expert on Yellow Pages advertising," shows you how to create more powerful Yellow Pages advertising. Remember, the best lawyers do not get the most calls; the best ads get the most calls. This book will give you the important tools needed to attract new business to your practice by creating advertising that gets attention, holds attention, and most importantly, gets potential clients to call.
This updated second edition shows you how to create more powerful Yellow Pages advertising and drive your client development programs forward vigorously. In this book you'll:
• Learn the six key ingredients that all successful Yellow Pages ads contain.
• Learn how to write copy that speaks powerfully to your readers' wants and needs.
• Learn to create a slogan that establishes you as the hands-down market leader.
• Learn to use photos and illustrations that guarantee your ad won't be skipped over.
• Pick up buying strategies that get you the biggest return on your yellow pages investment.
• And much more!
In addition, this book will guide you through the process of
• Identifying your unique place in the market
• Defining and then targeting an audience that will be influenced by your message.
• Creating content that produces results, and
• Instilling confidence in your potential client that you are the best possible choice of whom to call.
Stop trying to have the best ad in the Yellow Pages — buy this book and make it happen! You'll save money and attract new business to your practice.
Lawyer's Guide to Extranets ($80)
Extranets are simply a way of linking two parties together securely, generally over the Internet. An extranet can be a powerful tool that allows law firms to exchange information and build relationships with clients. This new book shows you why extranets are the next step in client interaction and communications, and how you can effectively implement an extranet in any type of firm. Well-run extranets can result in significant expansion in clientele and profitability for a law firm. This book can help your firm get ahead of the emerging technologies curve and discover the benefits of adopting this new information tool. By reading this book, and implementing an extranet at your firm, you can realize: Better, faster and cheaper communication.
Lawyer's Guide to Fact Finding on the Internet ($90)
Learn the differences between legal research and fact-finding. Discover the distinction between the "visible" and "invisible" Web and how to find information in each. Learn the nuances of search engines in order to formulate strategies for locating the information you need. And read real-world war stories of how Internet data has benefited other legal professionals.
The Lawyer's Guide to Increasing Revenue ($80)
Are you ready to look beyond cost-cutting and toward new revenue opportunities? Learn how you can achieve growth using the resources you already have at your firm. Discover the factors that affect your law firm's revenue production, how to evaluate them, and how to take specific action steps designed to increase your returns. You'll learn how to best improve performance and profitability in each of the key aspects of your law firm. The enclosed CD-ROM features sample policies, worksheets, plans, and documents designed to aid implementation of the ideas presented in the book. Let this resource guide you toward a profitable and sustainable future!
Lawyer's Guide to Marketing on the Internet ($90)
How to get started by selecting an "inside" team and hiring a professional Web designer. How to link your Web page in as many places as possible to obtain the widest possible audience. Techniques for marketing offline, including utilizing Webinars, extranets, wireless devices, Weblogs, and more. Tips for marketing your site via e-mail and newsgroups, plus what you should avoid in e-mail marketing. How you can decipher your hit reports so you can assess the success of all your marketing efforts and much more!
Lawyer's Guide to Marketing Your Practice ($80)
Discover creative marketing solutions that deliver breakthrough results! This definitive marketing resource features strategies and insights from the country's top legal marketers on every facet of marketing — from strategic planning and public relations to Internet marketing and market research. Inside, you'll find the practical ideas, innovative advice, and clear explanation of traditional and cutting-edge marketing tools you need to establish and implement a successful, multifaceted, and profit-driven marketing plan for your firm. The accompanying CD-ROM contains a wealth of checklists, plans, and other sample reports, questionnaires, and templates you can customize to make implementation of your marketing efforts even easier!
The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007
($70) New to Lending Library! Outlook is the most used application in Microsoft Office, but are you using it to your greatest advantage? The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007 is the only guide written specifically for lawyers to help you be more productive, more efficient and more successful. More than just email, Outlook is also a powerful task, contact, and scheduling manager that will improve your practice. From helping you log and tract phone calls, meetings, and correspondence to archiving closed case material in one easy-to-store location, this book unlocks the secrets of "underappreciated" features that you will use every day. Written in plain language by a twenty-year veteran of law office technology and ABA member, you'll find:
· Tips and tricks to effectively transfer information between all components of the software
· The eight new features in Outlook 2007 that lawyers will love
· A tour of major product features and how lawyers can best use them
· Mistakes lawyers should avoid when using Outlook
· What to do when you're away from the office
The Lawyer's Guide to Palm Powered Handhelds ($65)
The Palm-operated handheld is now an essential part of everyday life for an increasing number of lawyers. Whether you are a beginner, an advanced user, or simply deciding whether a Palm PDA is right for you, this book will show you how a Palm Powered handheld can make you more efficient and effective at what you do. Written just for lawyers, this guidebook provides helpful tips and tricks for getting the most out of Palm applications. If you're looking for a book to get you up and running on the Palm platform and become a Palm power-user, look no further!
The Lawyer's Guide to Records Management and Retention ($100) NEW Most lawyers know intuitively how important timely access to the right information is to their work. On the other hand, most lawyers have little or no knowledge or interest in filing systems and methods, indexing, database architecture and other mundane issues that enable records management as a practice tool.
This book is intended to address the issues arising from the need to manage records and information in a law office and use records management as a tool for:
*improving risk management
*managing e-mail as part of the client file
*implementing records retention schedules
*managing records during investigations, audits, claims, and litigation
*serving the techno-centric and techno-phobic practitioner
*and using records management as a pipeline to knowledge management
*and much more!
Among the issues discussed are:
--The Philosophy and Ethics of Records Management -- Why it is important and why a good records program is far more than just a filing system.
--Taxonomy and Filing Systems -- How to group information so you can find it later, whether its hardcopy, word processing documents or e-mail, so daily maintenance is less onerous.
--Records Retention -- How to determine what records a lawyer should keep and how long they should be kept, including resources for identifying legal requirements (for Administrative Records Retention Schedules) and Ethics Opinions (for Case File Retention Schedules.)
--Technology -- The selection and appropriate use of software and electronic records management tools.
--Procedures -- The processes that hold everything together, including the standards for performance.
The book is suitable for the large office as well as the small office, and is written to be of use to both the techno-centric lawyer as well as the techno-phobic practitioner. An accompanying CD-ROM contains sample letters, memos, procedures, and more, useful in implementing an effective file management system.
The Lawyer's Guide to Strategic Planning: Defining, Setting, and Achieving Your Firm's Goals ($80)
This new resource is your guide to planning dynamic strategic plans and implementing them at your firm. The authors writing style emphasizes practical application of sound planning concepts rather than focusing on a more theoretical approach. You'll find specific suggestions on strategic planning for any size firm, in any practice area. You'll learn about the actual planning process and how to establish goals in key areas such as law firm governance, competition, financial management, technology, marketing and competitive intelligence, client development and retention, and much more. The book provides practical advice on how to implement your strategic plan at the tactical level, as well as how to monitor your progress so the firm remains on track with your vision.
This book will help you . . .
• Develop an understanding of how strategic thinking can impact your firm
• Identify the benefits — and pitfalls — of strategic planning
• Learn key analytical and conceptual approaches that can expand your understanding of your business
• Learn the different ways in which vision can be used in the firm
• Understand how to integrate strategy, tactics, mission statements, and performance
• Learn to incorporate the vision of all of your "stakeholders" and to develop ideas for their application in your firm
• Discover how to evaluate your implemented strategy
In addition to this valuable direction on designing and implementing a meaningful strategy process, each chapter ends with questions designed to test your understanding of the subject matter discussed. Helpful icons placed throughout the book highlight the important points you need to remember. And the accompanying CD-ROM contains numerous policies, statements, and other sample documents you'll find indispensable in formulating your own process and plan
The Lawyer's Guide to Summation ($35)
The fact of the matter is litigation is complex. Summation is a software program that covers a broad spectrum of critical litigation functions for a wide variety of the litigation marketplace. The Lawyer's Guide to Summation explains the program's system of storing and recalling disparate types of evidence, and walks you through the functions contained in its entire integrated litigation support product line. It's the quickest way to get up and running with Summation, or simply an economical way to evaluate the software to see if it's right for you.
Legal Career Guide: From Law Student to Lawyer ($45)
Step-by-step guide for planning a law career, preparing and executing a job search, and moving into the market. Whether you're considering a solo career, examining government or corporate work, joining a medium or large firm, or focusing on an academic career, this book is filled with practical advice that will help you find your personal niche in the legal profession
The Legal Writer — Third Edition ($30)
"Cases are about people. Shouldn't they be able to read what is happening to them?" Judge Painter asks in his seminars. In The Legal Writer, he expands on that theme, and offers 40 rules for lawyers to follow in changing their writing style.
Since 1998, Judge Painter has given 33 legal writing seminars, instructing lawyers and judges on how to make their words understandable — not only to other lawyers, but to the public. He also writes a monthly column on writing for Ohio Lawyers Weekly. That column is being reprinted by the bar associations of Columbus, Cincinnati, and Cuyahoga County, and nationwide in Lawyers Weekly USA.
Letters for Lawyers: Essential Communications for Clients, Prospects, and Others ($75)
This guide helps you ease the task of communicating with your clients, prospective clients, colleagues, media, and employees by means of effective written communications. Contains numerous ready-to-use forms that allow you to project a polished, professional image.
Living with the Law: Strategies to Avoid Burnout and Create Balance ($80)
A to Z guide on the many aspects of stress and stress management. This book contains expert advice written by a group of professionals who work specifically with members of the legal profession. Whether you re in a large firm or a solo practitioner, this is a must-read
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The Macintosh Software Guide for the Law Office ($35)
More than 180 software applications are available for the law firm Macintosh systems, and this valuable guide shares information on the programs that can improve productivity and efficiency in your firm. Written by practicing lawyer and Macintosh expert Randy Singer, The Macintosh Software Guide for the Law Office, includes a thorough listing of common law office Mac applications, links to useful Internet resources and the MacAttorney newsletter, a listing of Macintosh user group meetings, and more.
Making Partner ($50)
Many factors come into play in achieving the goal of making partner: the quality of your work; how you relate to your superiors, fellow associates, and staff; how you entertain your clients; your choice of outside activities; even publications you read. It may take six to nine years, or more, to make partner from associate. Do you know what you should and should not be doing? Do you really know what your chances are at your firm? This concise, straightforward book looks at all these factors and provides detailed advice on how to create your own strategic plan for success.
John R. Sapp, the Managing Partner of a large Midwest law firm, has written this book with input from three newly minted partners who added their broader perspective on marketing, technology, and life/work balance issues, and more. Whatever your partnership goal, Making Partner: A Guide for Law Firm Associates, Second edition will show you how to manage your opportunities and tip the scales to your advantage.
Managing the Professional Service Firm ($35)
Drawing on over 10 years of research and consulting experience, author David Maister explores issues ranging from marketing and business development to multinational strategies, human resources policies to profit improvement, strategic planning to effective leadership.
Marketing Success Stories, Second Edition ($75)
This practice-building resource is an insightful collection of anecdotes on successful and creative marketing techniques used by lawyers and marketing professionals in a variety of practice settings. Whether you work in a solo, mid-sized, or mega-firm, these stories of marketing strategies that paid off will inspire you to greater heights. You'll gain an inside look at how successful lawyers market themselves, their practice specialties, and their firms. In addition to dozens of firsthand accounts of success stories from practitioners, you'll find advice from in-house counsel and others who give candid feedback on how strategic marketing influences their decision to hire a specific firm. Learn how to make new contacts, gain more repeat business, increase your visibility within the community, and learn many other action steps with this worthwhile addition to your law firm's marketing library.
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Nonlegal Careers for Lawyers — 4th Edition ($35)
Great opportunities exist for law students and practicing lawyers outside the traditional practice of law. This user-friendly guidebook explains when and how to choose a nonlegal career; the specialized skills legal training provides; and how to plan and conduct a job search. You'll find information on careers in business and industry, government and public service, associations and institutions, and entrepreneurial ventures. A resource section provides surveys and listings of nonlegal careers in several categories, and a listing of publishers and suggested readings on nonlegal careers.
Nonlegal Careers for Lawyers — 5th Edition ($35)
Perhaps you are a law student who realizes that practicing law is not what you want to do. Or maybe you are a practicing lawyer who no longer feels satisfied with your work. If you feel it's time for a change, this newly revised guidebook will show you what you can do with your law degree, besides practice law. More importantly, this book will illustrate how to use your legal skills to rise above the competition.
Learn in detail what opportunities exist in these fields:
Business and Industry — jobs in corporations; accounting firms; media companies; health care and pharmaceutical companies; engineering firms; real estate sales; high-tech companies; and more.
Government and Public Service — positions in the executive, judicial and legislative branch.
Associations and Institutions — careers in professional associations; PACS, lobbying, and campaigns; national and international service organizations, publishing companies; educational institutions; unions; and more.
Entrepreneurial Ventures — opportunities for consultants, agents, writers, counselors, investigators, informational technology specialists, and more.
In this guide, the authors lead you step by step through the process of assessing the special skills that legal training provides, choosing a nonlegal career, and conducting a nonlegal job search. In addition, they provide you with essential information about a variety of careers in business and industry, government and public service, associations and institutions, and entrepreneurial ventures.
To help you with the task of locating additional useful information on nonlegal careers, the book also contains a valuable resource section featuring surveys, descriptions of nonlegal careers, and a listing of publishers and publications, as well as suggested readings on nonlegal careers.
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Of Counsel Agreement ($75)
Helps you clarify the duties and responsibilities of an Of Counsel, be apprised of recent case law on Of Counsel and to formalize the arrangement through a written agreement. With sample forms on diskette.
Outlook 2007 Inside Out ($45)
You're beyond the basis, so dive right in and take control of your communications and workday! This supremely organized reference is packed with hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds. It's all muscle and no fluff. Discover how the experts tackle Outlook 2007--and challenge yourself to new levels of mastery!
· Configure and customize Outlook 2007 with advanced setup options.
· Learn expert techniques for managing e-mail and new RSS features.
· Optimize efficiency - organize and share your calendar, tasks, and notes.
· Use Business Contact Manager to keep track of clients' information and other critical data. Implement virus protection, encryption, spam filters and other security features.
· Set up a VPN, remote LAN, HTTP over RPC, and Outlook Web Access Support expanded client, and server -based collaboration capabilities.
· Configure Outlook 2007 as a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 client.
· Create macros and custom forms with Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications.
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The Paralegal's Guide to the Microsoft Office System ($18)
The Microsoft® Office System is the most popular desktop suite of personal productivity tools and technologies. Because the Microsoft Office suite of tools is so comprehensive, it can be challenging for people in certain professions to understand how to use Office to perform tasks specific to their job. This book focuses on the tasks a Paralegal performs every day—rather than the all too common software-centric approach that many other technology books habitually adopt. Other Microsoft Office books on the market for the legal profession are often difficult to understand because they largely address an Information Technology (IT) audience, cover too many professions in a single book, or are so large (more than 800 pages) as to be overwhelming. This book was written with Paralegals in mind. In fact, this book was developed by consulting and interviewing industry experts, legal trainers, technology experts, attorneys, and of course, Paralegals. The authors learned exactly which topics were most troublesome for Paralegals, and made sure to explain them thoroughly. This book covers the use of these Microsoft Office System products for Paralegals:
-Microsoft® Word 2003
-Microsoft® Excel 2003
-Microsoft® Outlook 2003
-Microsoft® PowerPoint 2003
-Microsoft® OneNote 2003
Paralegals, Profitability, and the Future of Your Law Practice ($80) Advice on how to best use your paralegal staff. Offers models for a firm paralegal program, recruiting the best paralegals, ethical issues to be aware of when working with paralegals and more. Forms and sample job descriptions are on accompanying CD Rom.
Planning Ahead: A Guide to Protecting Your Clients' Interests in the Event of Your Disability or Death. ($35)
This handbook was created to help lawyers fulfill their ethical obligations to protect client's interests in the event of death, disability, impairment or incapacity. The book suggests ways to simplify the closure of your office and to help protect your client's interests.
Practical Planning: A How-To-Guide for Solos and Small Law Firms ($40)
Workbook with graphs, charts and questionnaires to introduce the long-range planning process of practicing solos or small firms.
Professional's Guide to Value Pricing ($200)
This guide shows you how to price your professional services for greater profit. It's designed to provide CPAs, attorneys, and other professionals with the information they need to evaluate the economics and ethics of alternative billing methods. Discover what your clients are really looking for, how to make the shift from hourly billing to value pricing, how to stop undermining your services, and more.
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Quicken In One Hour for Lawyers ($40)
Four easy lessons acquaint you with this rich financial management program from original entry of transactions to the creation of reports summarizing the transactions for an accounting period. Learn how Quicken can help you detect and analyze financial problems.
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Results-Oriented Financial Management: A Guide to Successful Law Firm Financial Performance ($60)
How to manage "the numbers" in your practice, from setting rates and computing billable hours to calculating net income and preparing the budget. Over 30 charts and statements to help you prepare reports.
Running a Law Practice on a Shoestring ($60)
Learn relatively painless and easy ways you can save money on routine law office expenses! Thea C. Snyder, the author and a successful solo practitioner, identifies some of the most wasteful office practices and shows you how to stop them forever to make your law practice more profitable.
Running from the Law — Why Good Lawyers Are Getting out of the Legal Profession ($17)
The secret is out: many lawyers are professionally unhappy . . . Tired of the bruising hours, the stress and burnout, the paper-pushing, and the adversarial nastiness. And even as law school enrollments rise, more and more practitioners are running from the law. This book — the first to break the code of silence about the legal profession — features lively interviews with successful practitioners who left the law for greater personal and financial rewards. You'll find a unique and candid examination of the legal field with career tips, support options and the latest online career resources just for lawyers.
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Step by Step Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 ($25) NEW
The smart way to learn Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 – one step at a time!
Experience learning made easy – and quickly teach yourself how to manage your e-mail and personal information using Outlook 2003. With Step by Step, you can take just the lessons you need, or work from cover to cover. Either way, you drive the instruction—building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them!
· Master the tools for managing your e-mail, instant messaging, calendar, contacts and tasks
· Organize your inbox and folders, use search folders, and set up flags and alerts
· Help block unwanted e-mail and use other security features
· Make scheduling meetings easy with shared team calendars
· Customize Outlook to work the way you want
· Prepare for the Microsoft Office Specialist Exam
Strengthing Your Firm: Strategies for Success ($75)
Here's an "owner's manual" for the successful management of today's law firm. Editor Arthur Greene and a team of experts share valuable insights and practical advice on important topics such as adapting to change, meeting partnership challenges, dealing with financial problems and governance, protecting and nurturing the institution, improving leadership and communication, and more.
The Successful Lawyer — Powerful Strategies for Transforming Your Practice ($85)
Global management consultant and trusted advisor to many of the worlds' largest law firms, Gerald Riskin authors this comprehensive and inspirational book conveying practical and helpful solutions to make your practice not only more profitable, but far more satisfying. Large firm or small, regardless of position, The Successful Lawyer provides you with valuable road-tested advice that is immediately helpful and rewarding. This comprehensive book explains how to transform the lawyer you are right now into a more exciting, fulfilling, and profitable one. You'll learn how to re-plan your future and build skills in a wide arena, including areas such as active listening, client rapport, effective delegation, dealing with complaints, effective meetings and business development. Dare to dream! If you're looking for ways to enhance your personal practice, allowing you both added income and increased satisfaction, then look no further.
Survival Guide for Road Warriors ($40) This new book will help you master the tools and techniques of the virtual office. Learn how to use different combinations of equipment and technology so you can be accessible, responsive and effective to your clients — whether you are in your office, on the road, in the courtroom, or at home. Plenty of practical tips and stories on topics including: choosing a notebook computer and peripherals, dealing with practical problems when flying or in hotels. buying a cellular phone, comparing and selecting an online service — and much much more.
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Take Back Your Life! Using Microsoft Outlook to Get Organized and Stay Organized ($25) New to Lending Library!
Unrelenting email. Conflicting commitments. Endless interruptions. In Take Back Your Life! Productivity expert Sally McGhee shows you how to take control and reclaim something you thought you'd lost forever—your work-life balance. Now you can benefit from Sally's popular and highly regarded corporate education programs, learning simple but powerful techniques for rebalancing your personal and professional commitments using the productivity features in Microsoft Outlook.
Learn the proven methods that will empower you to:
® Clear away distractions and loose ends and focus on what's really important to you and your business.
® Take charge of your productivity using techniques and processes designed by McGhee Productivity Solutions (MPS) and implemented in numerous Fortune 500 companies.
® Customize and exploit the productivity features in Microsoft Outlook to help you create balance at home and on the job.
When you change your approach, you can change your results. So learn what thousands of Sally's clients worldwide have discovered about taking control of their everyday productivity—and start transforming your own life today!
Covers Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, Outlook Version 2003, and Outlook 2000.
Through the Client's Eyes: New Approaches to Get Clients to Hire You Again and Again ($85)Learn how to involve the client early on; how to avoid knock-down, drag-out fights over fees; how to use a good client in-take form; and how to use your bills to effectively communicate with your client. Included are sample letters, surveys, and self-assessment questions to gauge your client relations acumen.
Time Matters in One Hour for Lawyers
