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How Staffing Agencies Help with Legal Process Outsourcing
Legal process outsourcing, or “LPOs,” is a hot term in the legal industry and has been for years. Learn how staffing agencies help with LPO.
3 Best Hiring Practices for Law Firms
What are the best hiring practices for law firms? Many law firms struggle with the hiring process. Lateral, associate, partner, even clerical staff -- hiring often takes unexpected turns and is overshadowed by other work commitments. This process should not be rushed,...
Pros and Cons of “Virtual Workers”
The Pros and Cons of Virtual Workers A virtual employee sounds like a great compromise, doesn’t it? You hire a temporary contractor and offer them the opportunity to work from home. After, you meet once or twice a week to reconcile assignments and catch each other up,...
Get the Upper Hand With Business Analytics
Business Analytics and the Modern Law Firm It’s necessary -- imperative, even -- to collect data regarding law firm performance. Parsing out how many clients you had last year, how much they spent, whether they returned for more work -- these numbers are valuable and...
How To Improve Your Document Review
Everyone Needs Document Review - Do It Better Nobody likes document review. It’s tedious, it’s expensive, and it’s labor-intensive. Document review is the most mentally-taxing part of the legal discovery process. Each side of a legal case is required to turn over...
6 Ingredients for Stellar Compensation Planning
6 Ingredients for Stellar Compensation Planning It seems like a given, but if you want people to work for your company, then you’ve got to pay them what they’re worth. It was recently determined that the Great Recession was among the worst times to go to law school;...
4 Shocking Trends About Importance of Legal Staff
Clio's 2017 Legal Trends Show How Little Attorneys Get Done in a Day Clio’s Legal Trends Report just came out, and the results are pretty stark. According to their 2017 trend report, here are what 60,000 attorneys spend most of their days doing: Lawyers spend only 2.3...
The Odd Couple: Technology and Legal Secretaries
Technology is Now in the Hands of Legal Secretaries Many people worry that technology is going to make their role obsolete. And maybe they should! Grocery store clerks are skipping away into the night. Fast-food cashiers are going the way of the Dodo. Car technicians...
The Secret to Saving Money on Document Review
Document Review: Paying Per Hour or Per Document? There are many document review companies shuffling for prominence in today’s crowded market. Many of them employ fully-fledged attorneys, while others employ JDs (those who hold a juris doctorate degree rather than...
Business Analytics: A Beginner’s Guide
Why Do Law Firms Need Business Analytics? Nobody would make an important decision without looking at all of the facts first. This applies to anything you do in life, really. Would you invest in a company without looking at financials? Heck, no. Would you partner with...