We are still talking about “tips” that create “fail-safe” administration systems for your office. We have already talked about four of these “fail-safe tips,” they are as follows: 1. Phone message systems; 2. Prospective New Matter Reports; 3. Non-engagement letters; ...
Read More »Keeping Your New Matter Reports 'Fail-Safe'
We began talking several articles ago about “tips” that create “fail-safe” systems in your office. There were eighteen fail-safe systems I suggested you put in place in order to be sure that all of the client matters in your office ...
Read More »Suspected Vaccine Price Gouging Contradicts Holiday Spirit
Probably one of the saddest things to see is a child being sick during the holidays. All the traditions of family, goodwill and giving seem lost when a youngster is unable to enjoy the physical and emotional sensations of the ...
Read More »By Constance L. Ward
Buying or selling a company is an exciting event regardless of which side of the table your client sits, buyer or seller. How the deal is structured can significantly affect the amount of cash that finally ends up in your ...
Read More »Making Your Non-Engagement Letters 'Fail-Safe'
We are continuing to talk about “tips” that create “fail-safe” systems in your office in order to facilitate the administration of the daily activities you perform in your law firm “Fail-safe” systems are an integral part of “administration” which is ...
Read More »Conducting Due Diligence May Help Get The Best Deal
Due diligence is an investigation to determine the full implications of a proposed transaction to buy/sell a business. For the buyer it will provide added assurance that s/he knows what s/he is getting into. For the seller, it means the ...
Read More »Juror Number 6, Robert Barton…
When Judge Ortrie Smith’s courtroom deputy clerk Eva Will-Fees called my name, I can’t repeat what I mumbled under my breath, but the panel member next to me said, “I can’t believe they picked you.” I concurred. But my service ...
Read More »Continuing The Use Of "Fail-Safe" Methods
This week we will continue to talk about “tips” that create “fail-safe” methods that ensure all of the important day-to-day work in your law firm is done. Setting up “fail-safe” systems ensures that the things that keep your law firm ...
Read More »Steel Industry Positioned To Build On Strength Of Its Mettle
Bowing to economic terrorists, is how Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-1st District of Missouri, described President Bush’s lifting of nearly all tariffs that had been placed on foreign steel imports 21-months ago. “This is a terrible decision and a betrayal ...
Read More »Selling A Business: Grooming The Business For Sale
As attorneys, many of you assist clients who own businesses with legal issues throughout their ownership, from acquisition through disposition. This week, I’ll continue with a topic of interest for those assisting clients contemplating the sale of their business. My ...
Read More »Using "Fail-Safe" Concepts To Keep Your Systems Running
This week’s tip deals with “fail-safe” concepts to practice in your law firm to be sure that things are done at certain times so that the systems you implement become relatively “automatic.” We have talked about some of these ideas ...
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