At a seminar last week, a group of lay people were asked if anyone had acted as an executor before. About ¾ of the group proudly raised their hands. The next question- would any of you do it again?- resulted in many fewer raised hands.

A summary of all cloud-based options available to the public.

Not long ago I participated in a fascinating exchange with a group of sole practitioners, regarding quality of life.

Ask anyone who has ever appeared in family court as a litigant – even if they had a lawyer – and they are almost certain to describe their experience as unsatisfactory.

You grind away on files, day after day, counting each hour in six-minute increments. Keeping track of the time you spend can be tiresome and sometimes distracting as you switch gears from file to file. Ah, the billable hour. It’s been the most common method of billing by lawyers for decades but, despite its longevity, many believe there are better ways to bill clients.

There is no sharp line between a disability policy and a healthy workplace policy—a fact that law firms would do well to remember when they are considering accessibility issues for lawyers with disabilities. Accessibility benefits entire firms, their members and their clients.

Networking and referrals are the key to building and maintaining a small law practice’s client base.

While we can’t expect disaster plans to protect our firms from every possible risk, we should all expand our planning perspective to include more catastrophic scenarios.

Computers will never replace lawyers; they have, in fact, made our jobs much easier. The timesavings, efficiency and commoditization of routine tasks and services afforded by computers and other electronic technology have freed the great majority of lawyers to focus on the creative, problem-solving aspects of their law practice.

In today’s professional services world, it’s a buyer’s market. There is always someone else who can do the job for less. But in reality, the fee is almost never the issue. If a client goes to another lawyer because of the money, the reason is that you have not shown that client the value of what you do. Legal clients are looking for value, not price. They want communication and dedication more than they want cheap fees.