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Should You Rethink Your Areas of Practice?

Martindale-Avvo

Estate planning lawyers have seen an uptick in clients who want to update or create their trusts and wills. Businesses of all sizes are renegotiating contracts and looking for legal advice about whether the pandemic voids certain contractual obligations for canceled events and services due to mandated social distancing.

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Ethical Considerations for Flat Fee Billing

Attorney at Work

While most of my billing comes from traditional hourly rates for matters, I have always used flat fees for certain client demands such as residential real estate transactions and basic estate planning. The fee could be paid and earned in installments triggered by the specified events or tasks. Are Fees Refundable?

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How to Run a Law Firm | Who to Hire: Marketing Manager

Martindale-Avvo

Blogs : Blogs focus on legal topics, news, and other key events. To help accomplish this, a marketing manager will: Plan and Manage Events: Law firms and attorneys host, attend, or speak at events. These events help draw attention to your firm and business.

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Changing Legal Practice Areas? Here is Everything You Need to Know

Clio

Attend practice-area-specific bar events. Or, plan an event yourself! Attending networking events for these groups, building relationships with people in these roles, and making it known you practice in a relevant area of law will help earn you referrals in the future. For family law, this could be therapists.

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Takeaways from ABA TECHSHOW 2023

Legal Tech Monitor

Tulsa attorney Trevor Riddle was a co-presenter on two TECHSHOW sessions on optimizing your law firm efficiency through automation, discussing the tools he uses in his estate planning practice. Edwards has been practicing family law in Georgia since 2001 and just added an estate planning division to her practice.