Cyber-Liability – What’s my exposure? Will my insurance respond?

Posted 11.06.2007 in Practice Management

Law firms of every size and discipline face growing exposures with respect to breaches in their computer security and information systems, with increasingly sophisticated attacks occurring more frequently. Due to rapidly changing policy coverages and premium in this area, it is important that you frequently review your firm’s exposures and options for handling them. And [...]

Managing Information Overload: What to do When the Information Age Has You Overwhelmed

Posted 09.22.2007 in Practice Management, Time Management

Several weeks ago a friend, the executive director of an organization, confessed that his office is a disaster. Professional journals pile up, phone messages are unanswered. Projects remain half completed. The in-box has become a storage box. Every meeting ends with additional paper and tasks to complete. E-mails arrive fast and furious begging for immediate [...]

Law Firm Marketing: Success is in the Details

Posted 09.22.2007 in Marketing, Practice Management

There is a common misconception in a large segment of the legal profession that marketing equates to advertising and spending a lot of money. That couldn’t be more wrong. Marketing in law firms is all about sweating the details. The details cost you a little extra time and attention, but can deliver [...]

Trying to Balance Work and Family

Posted 05.01.2005 in Time Management

In a recent issue of the ABA Journal e-Report, lawyers provided their children’s comments on their parents’ jobs. One lawyer described a day when her child care person was sick and she took her young daughter to court, leaving her with a bailiff while she had a hearing in the judge’s chambers. When the lawyer [...]

Coaching For Lawyers

Posted 07.01.2004 in Marketing, Time Management

Executive coaching, a professional development tool that combines strategic consulting and problem-solving counseling to help professionals set and reach their business and/or personal goals, has in the past decade found much support in the business community. Managers in corporations, including blue chip companies such as IBM, AT&T and Kodak, are realizing its benefits. Lawyers on [...]

Marketing Professionally & Ethically

Posted 10.01.2003 in Marketing

Proposed changes to the Minnesota Rules of Professional Conduct regarding marketing and professional communications call for modest adjustments in existing rules while encouraging effective client relations.
by Roy S. Ginsburg and Kenneth F. Kirwin
Business development. You keep reading about its importance to your career. You keep hearing about it from other lawyers in your firm and [...]