Stages of growth are important for every business, including law firms. Identifying and understanding law firm growth stages are crucial to your current and future success. It helps you better interpret the success of your current objectives, determine future objectives, and also determine…
So again, because we’re just going to be informal about this. I would like to take the next 30 minutes or so, and just talk about Mean Pug and a little bit about how you guys got started. What was the impetus for that, and then what you guys do and how that’s different from other firms out…
Even though law firms are all about risk management and protecting their clients’ rights, no one, including managing partners of law firms, can plan for a pandemic. While everyone hoped COVID-19 would no longer be such a threat to health and public safety and everything would…
As the leading law firm consultants, we know the importance of often looking beyond the resume when choosing the right candidate for law firm job openings. In our decades of experience of small law firm coaching, we’ve learned that most law firms, regardless of size, fall into two..
How the Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security Act (CARES) Affects Your Business RJH Consulting is invested in the success of our clients and small business in general. We will be doing our best to communicate new legislation and help as it becomes available. The relief package…
Client intake software hasn’t fully gained traction in most U.S. law firms. But legal tech observers say the path toward greater adoption will likely require dismantling common misconceptions that client intake software creates a tech-only process, and finding easy-to-deploy…
How to Meet, Greet, And Win Respect From A New Managing Partner There’s a new sheriff in town. Well, new managing partner anyway. And in most firms, the managing partner ascends to the position with scarcely any experience in management, says Robert J. Henderson of RJH Cons…
The Ins, Outs, and Terms Of The Engagement Letter Who, What, And How Much It tells who’s representing whom for what and for how much. The purpose of engagement letter is to see that the firm gets paid and stays out of arguments, whether about the representation or…
Why Go Paperless? With a paperless office, attorneys and support staff can find documents without having to leave their desks or rummage through file cabinets or boxes. Also, when it comes time to close files, it is a simple matter to drag them from an active work directory to an archive directory, thus…
Question: Our office is small, and we have never had a law firm administrator. Now the attorneys have asked me to become the administrator. What duties should be assigned to the position? How should the announcement be made to staff? And what should I do to ensure success in the…