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Strategy and Tactics: Plan Your Work and Work Your Plan
By Jim Calloway Adopting a strategic plan for your law practice probably doesn’t sound like an exciting proposition to many lawyers. This is particularly true if some eager beaver wants to schedule a mandatory weekend retreat for the entire law firm to work on a strategic plan. No one would dispute the need for a…
How is Your Law Practice Going to Change?
By Jim Calloway Ideas about the delivery of legal services are certainly changing. Some of the changes are not going to be good for lawyers. Many of the changes will be challenging for lawyers. But some of the changes will assist lawyers who are paying attention to the changing landscape. And, of course, there will…
‘Paperless’ Office Doesn’t Really Mean Paperless, It Does Mean New Processes and Procedures
By Jim Calloway “Let’s just go paperless. We can free up all that space in the file room and quit paying so much for outside file storage.” “What a great idea! We’ve already got those big, expensive printer-scanner-document senders in the hallways on every floor. So, let’s send out a memo! Effective Monday, we’re going…
The Smoke Clears…After the Practice Management Shootout at the OK Bar
By Jim Calloway A great, enthusiastic crowd attended our Practice Management Shootout at the OK Bar at the 2015 OBA Solo & Small Firm Conference. Read on to learn how we are sharing this information with the other OBA members. First of all, thanks to the representatives for our six participants: MyCase, Firm Manager, Firm…
Care and Feeding of the Law Firm Client
By Jim Calloway A lawyer isn’t a practicing lawyer without clients — at least that is the case for lawyers in private practice. The purpose of law firms is to advise clients, attempt to solve clients’ legal problems and represent the clients’ interests. At our recent Opening Your Law Practice program, I spent a great…
Those Timesheets, Those Hated Timesheets: Are You Still Using Them?
By Jim Calloway A common complaint among lawyers is the painful necessity of filling out timesheets so that the clients can be accurately billed. On its face, this is a simple exercise that should be a part of the daily routine and should be happily done for the direct rewards it provides. (You don’t bill,…
2015 OBA Solo & Small Firm Conference and YLD Midyear Meeting
By Jim Calloway This year’s OBA Solo & Small Firm Conference is not to be missed! This year’s conference contains critical information gathered for you all in one place. Even if you may not consider your firm a “small firm,” this year’s conference is for you. Because this year we are featuring a program called…
Uniformity vs. Creativity
By Jim Calloway COMES NOW the writer, and for his February Law Practice Tips column in the Oklahoma Bar Journal alleges and states as follows. That is lawyer-speak for “Greetings.” I recall during law school when I was working for a law firm, I asked an experienced lawyer why we started all pleadings with “COMES…
New Client Inquiry on Line One
By Jim Calloway It’s the beginning of a new year and most lawyers want to have new clients and new matters to start a new year. And the beginning of a new year is a good time to take stock and make business plans. We hear and read a lot about lawyer marketing these days….
A Little of This, A Little of That, Things Lawyers and Law Firms Should Do Soon
By Jim Calloway Last month in this space I wrote a Law Practice Tips column titled “Thinking about Tomorrow” which encouraged, among other things, Oklahoma lawyers to attend our annual meeting and hear famed futurist Richard Susskind discuss his view of the future of law. This month’s column will cover a wide variety of topics…