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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…
Thinking About Tomorrow
By Jim Calloway “Navigating the Changing Legal Profession” is the theme for this month’s edition of the Oklahoma Bar Journal and the OBA Annual Meeting. That’s a topic in which I have much interest. Every lawyer not actively engaged in finalizing their retirement plans should also pay attention to future trends. But it’s not that…
Client: ‘Can My Parents Pay for My Attorney Fees?’, Lawyer: ‘Yes, but…’
By Jim Calloway Some lawyers and I recently were discussing the problems of family law cases in which the parents are paying for a child’s attorney’s fees. It is a very common situation, given the finances of many young married couples. Parents are usually quite willing to pay for attorney’s fees in family law matters…
What Is Your Law Firm’s Social Media Strategy?
By Jim Calloway Everyone (including me) says your law firm has to have a website and almost everyone says that your law firm really needs to also have social media accounts, which are also, at least in part, websites. Most of you understand how that can be true as two of your big gateways for…
Recent Technology News and Developments for 2014
By Jim Calloway There’s been quite a lot of technology-related news over the last several months. Some of it is directly related to the legal profession. Much of it is at least indirectly related to the legal profession. There have also been some interesting court rulings related to technology. Rather than featuring just a few…