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The E-Myth Attorney: Why Most Legal Practices Don't Work and What to Do About It
Author: Michael E. Gerber
ISBN-10: 0470503653
ISBN-13: 9780470503652
Published: 2010-06-01
Publisher: Wiley
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Book Description:
The complete guide to the business of running a successful legal practiceMany attorneys in small and mid-size practices are experts on the law, but may not have considered their practice as much from a business perspective.Michael Gerber’s The E-Myth Attorney fills this void, giving you powerful advice on everything you need to run your practice as a successful business, allowing you to achieve your goals and grow your practice. Featuring Gerber's signature easy-to-understand, easy-to-implement style, The E-Myth Attorney features:A complete start-up guide you can use to get your practice off the ground quickly, as well as comprehensive action steps for maximizing the performance of an existing practiceIndustry specific advice from two recognized legal experts that have developed a highly successful legal practice using Gerber’s principlesGerber’s universal appeal as a recognized expert on small businesses who has coached, taught, and trained over 60,000 small businessesThe E-Myth Attorney is the last guide you'll ever need to make the difference in building or developing your successful legal practice.
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CLA/CP Study Guide and Mock Examination
Author: NALA
ISBN-10: 1435400267
ISBN-13: 9781435400269
Published: 2008-07-17
Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning
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Book Description:
Designed as a self-study tool, NALA's CLA/CP STUDY GUIDE AND MOCK EXAMINATION, fourth edition will help sharpen test-taking skills. This study guide offers details and tips for taking the CLA Exam, as well as a series of self-tests for each exam category. The end of the book contains a CLA mock exam with an answer key.
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Practical Law Office Management (West Legal Studies)
Author: Brent Roper
ISBN-10: 141802970X
ISBN-13: 9781418029708
Published: 2006-07-24
Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning
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Book Description:
Practical Law Office Management, third edition focuses on law office management from a practical standpoint. Designed for the paralegal student interested in day-to-day law office management topics, this text focuses on client relations and communication skills; legal fees, timekeeping, and billing, client trust funds and law office accounting; calendaring, docket control, and case management; legal marketing; and file and law library management. This revised edition offers an extended focus on technology, including a full demonstration of Thomson's ProLaw software and in-depth software tutorials. It includes up-to-date charts and graphs that present material in an easy-to-understand context. Each chapter now includes thought-provoking questions, and expanded and interesting case studies that deal with unique facts specific to practicing paralegals appear after most chapters. To expand the technology focus of the text, Excel exercises appear in the timekeeping and billing and trust account chapters. In addition, this revised text has a strong ethics focus throughout, with ethics-related cases included at the end of nearly every chapter.
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Fundamentals of Law Office Management (West Legal Studies Series)
Author: Pamela Everett-Nollkamper
ISBN-10: 142831928X
ISBN-13: 9781428319288
Published: 2008-05-28
Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning
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Book Description:
Fundamentals of Law Office Management: Systems Procedures and Ethics, fourth edition, was created to present knowledge of the industry, an understanding of how a law office functions, and to provide essential skills. The text is divided into three sections in order to best accomplish these goals. The first section, consisting of five chapters, provides an overview of the legal industry. These chapters explain the parameters and policies of the business of law and provide a strong foundation upon which to build a legal career. The information contained in these chapters is essential to understand why law firms, and other types of legal offices, conduct business differently from other industries. The second section, consisting of five chapters, introduces students to the functions and procedures common to a law office environment. The third section, consisting of four chapters, provides students with essential skills that will be utilized throughout their legal career. The text is enhanced with the inclusion of features such as key words, ethics alerts, side bars, and tech tips. New to this fourth edition is material on federal employment laws and law office marketing, along with revised tables and charts and updated web resources.
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Flying Solo: A Survival Guide for Solos and Small Firm Lawyers
Author:
ISBN-10: 1590314808
ISBN-13: 9781590314807
Published: 2005-07-26
Publisher: American Bar Association
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Book Description:
The contributors share time-tested advice on approaches, methods, systems, and perspectives that have resulted in thriving solo and small firm law practices in the real world. This book contains proven solutions for problems and issues that, sooner or later, every practitioner will have to face.
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Litigation and Trial Practice for the Legal Assistant
Author: Roderick D. Blanchard
ISBN-10: 0314569952
ISBN-13: 9780314569950
Published: 1989-11
Publisher: Thomson Learning
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Book Description:
This book is the most comprehensive text available and examines all facets of civil litigation. This is the only litigation text for the paralegal that makes an effort to explain legal theory and trial strategy. The focus is on judicial procedures and rules of law, not generic law office procedures. The authors' objective is to make paralegal full members of the litigation team so they know what is happening and what the next step should be. Paralegals should feel as though they are contributors, not merely assisting. Since civil litigation is directed and controlled by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, this book focuses on the rules, explains those rules, how they operate and how they apply to a paralegal's work. Paralegals who master the information in this book will be able to communicate effectively with lawyers about civil litigation matters.
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Technology in the Law Office
Author: Thomas F. Goldman
ISBN-10: 0136031323
ISBN-13: 9780136031321
Published: 2007-07-30
Publisher: Prentice Hall College Div
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Book Description:
Approriate for courses on Computers and the Law . Technology in the Law Office provides thorough coverage of the use and management of technology in the legal workplace. This text builds a foundation in technology concepts and applications needed by paralegals and attorneys as well as information technologists working in the legal environment. Students develop a hands-on understanding of real workplace software using the most popular commercially available legal programs including AbacusLaw, Tabs3, SmartDrawLegal, LexisNexis CaseMap and TimeMap, and Sanction II. Members of the legal team are introduced to the roles each plays in the use of technology and develop the technical vocabulary needed to collaborate effectively on-the-job. A continuing theme throughout the text is to empower student success by teaching students how to independently learn to use new software features and programs.
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CLA Review Manual: A Practical Guide to CLA Exam Preparation
Author: Virginia Koerselman Newman
ISBN-10: 0314206213
ISBN-13: 9780314206213
Published: 1997-10-22
Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning
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Book Description:
This manual is a comprehensive study tool for the Certified Legal Assistant (CLA) Examination administered by the National Association of Legal Assistants, Inc. The manual thoroughly covers each section of the exam with extensive outlines, examples, facts, and charts for review. Sample tests are included at the end of each chapter. Tips for studying and successful completion of the exam are also provided. The new edition has been completely updated to reflect the latest changes in the law and the CLA Examination.
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Using Computers in the Law Office (West Legal Studies Series)
Author: Brent Roper
ISBN-10: 141803312X
ISBN-13: 9781418033125
Published: 2007-09-24
Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning
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Book Description:
Using Computers in the Law Office, fifth edition provides up-to-date information regarding the use of technology by paralegals in all types of legal organizations. It includes basic computer concepts, including hardware and major software programs such as Word and Excel, and also addresses more complex skills and software programs available.
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NALA Manual for Paralegals and Legal Assistants
Author: National Association of Legal Assistants
ISBN-10: 1435400259
ISBN-13: 9781435400252
Published: 2009-03-10
Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning
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Book Description:
The revised NALA Manual is a valuable reference guide for professionals and students in the legal studies field. Working paralegals will not only find it helpful as an on-the-job reference, but also beneficial when preparing for the Certified Legal Assistant/Certified Paralegal examination. Paralegal programs can also use the manual as a reference for students or a textbook for capstone courses. The Manual is a collection of proven techniques and procedures used by paralegals nationwide. The techniques described are examples of successful solutions to actual assignments accomplished by working legal assistants. They may be used as starting points from which changes, adaptations, and modifications may be made by legal assistants in similar situations. More than 100 leading authorities with a wide range of experience in legal disciplines and management have contributed to this comprehensive manual since it was introduced in 1976. The expertise and commendable dedication of these individuals has consistently produced an authoritative and reliable reference for paralegals with each updated edition.
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