Practical Skills Book List: Office Management

Pressure has mounted on all attorneys to do some level of business generation. This book offers insightful tips to guide you through the maze of business development.

The ABA Guide to Establishing a Motor Vehicle Law Practice is designed to help lawyers implement and immediately profit from an MVA practice without having previous experience in this area.

This product provides a well-rounded summary of the relevant accounting areas from basic financial statements to complex earnings-per-share ratios and corporate finance and valuation. Learn how to recognize revenue, expenses, assets, and liabilities. It reviews accounting principles for many different areas, including acquisitions, investments, long-term debt, leases, stocks, and partnerships. It also discusses recent developments such as adoption of new requirements to place most operating leases on the lessee's balance sheet, a new principles based approach to accounting for revenue, and refinements in the accounting for stock options.

This book will help you understand how clients perceive value, effectively price legal services in business matters, successfully communicate with clients, and understand the ethics concerns of alternative fees.

Written by a trial lawyer with over 30 years of experience, this essential guide offers lessons, insights, and practical tips that the author has learned during his firm's long-term experiment with alternative fee arrangements.

American Law Firms: Trends, Threats and Strategies takes a sweeping, incisive view of law firms' uneven progress after the Great Recession and analyzes the five elements that will determine their success or failure in the next decade: culture, character, practices, systems and leaders.

Shows lawyers how to manage their practices in a more business-like manner. It explains how to determine both personal and law firm goals.

This title helps individuals take control of their cybersecurity. Every day in the news, we see cybercrime -- a multi-billion-dollar-a-year criminal industry whose actors have little fear of law enforcement. Incidents of cybercrime and cybercrime-related identity theft continue to grow exponentially. As a result, governments, regulators, and professional bodies increasingly require that lawyers and other professionals take reasonable cybersecurity measures. Beyond protecting workplaces from cybertheft or intrusion, there's also a need to protect ourselves and our families from these threats. Cybersecurity for the Home and Office: The Lawyer's Guide to Taking Charge of Your Own Information Security will make it easier to understand cyber risks so a decision can be made as to where to set the "cybersecurity dial" in home and office.

This is an essential resource for anyone who has ever felt alone and marginalized or for anyone who seeks to become an ally in the quest for inclusive workplace cultures.

"The purpose of this book is to help you manage and run a successful law practice"--

"How to build and sustain and inclusive workplace"--

Law firms can mitigate the risk of a data breach through a variety of means, including: investing in cybersecurity tools, hiring internal and external cyber resources to augment the firm's current information security practices, and arguably most importantly changing the firm's culture to be more security conscious. No one size fits all solution exists for dealing with cyber threats, but with proper focus and resources, a firm can consider its unique factors and develop an information security posture that addresses its most compelling concerns.

The first serious treatment of the subject, Lawyers as Leaders will be essential to law school instructors who teach leadership courses (a growing field) and any attorney who finds him or herself in a management position.

Lawyers as Managers gives you everything you want and need to know about managing people. It is not just a book to help you deal with the challenging people in your law firm--it is a primer and road map on how to empower, motivate, inspire, and bring out the best of everyone in your law firm . . . including you This book will accelerate your growth as a manager of lawyers and legal professionals. It is a handbook you can turn to if you're in a position of authority or as you gradually assume greater managerial responsibilities. It's a comprehensive and practical guide that includes the checklists, charts, and resources attorneys and managers need to lead thriving and resilient firms.

The purpose of this book is to uncover the essential nature of leadership as it is lived by today's law firm leaders. The authors interviewed thirty-one highly effective law firm leaders to reach to get as broad a view as possible.

All too often, the difference between a successful and unsuccessful law firm is the quality of its leadership. Exemplary leaders have the power to motivate attorneys and staff to serve clients, collaborate, and innovate to the best of their ability. In times of trouble, ineffective leadership can drive a firm to ruin. Lessons in Leadership: Essential Skills for Lawyers will be required reading for any attorney--from newly hired associates to seasoned managing partners--seeking to develop their leadership skills. Through a series of practical lessons, veteran law firm leader Tom Grella draws from his own experiences and applies time-tested leadership principles to lawyers and law firms.

The Millennial Lawyer is a dual guidebook-meant for both senior lawyers on effectively using this next generation, and for the young lawyer on adjusting to law practice and life in a firm.

Personal branding expert and experienced attorney Katy Goshtasbi explains how attorneys can highlight their unique talents and abilities, manage their perceptions, and achieve greater success as a lawyer in the process.

Positive Professionals is a practical handbook of science-backed strategies to foster full engagement by enhancing people's experience of meaningful work, of feeling valued and valuable, and of growing and developing. Skeptical of a new approach? That's natural. But it has science on its side. The book's well-researched business case convincingly shows that greater engagement boosts not only individual well-being but also profitability, productivity, performance, retention of talent, and client satisfaction.

Paints a picture of what small-town practice is like in its rich diversity, examines how local practitioners got to where they are, and details what an aspiring small-town lawyer needs to know and do in order to locate in a small community.

This is a friendly and helpful companion for clinical students and new lawyers as they venture forth.

This accessible, practical, and comprehensive guide teaches how to properly create tables and graphs for effective and efficient communication.

This is the first book of its kind to provide a comprehensive, structured, and clear approach to addressing the increasingly complex pricing and delivery challenges faced within legal services.

The study presents data about hours worked on weekends, holidays and vacations from a survey of 260 American lawyers at 120 law firms.

This valuable book will provide you with strategies that will help you gain control over your professional life so that you can still have a fulfilling personal life outside the office.

A short, funny, insightful, and occasionally philosophical guide to what you'll need to know, planning and conducting trials, interviewing and counseling clients, negotiating cases and drafting deals, writing briefs and making oral arguments, solving problems and telling stories and using your computer to make you a better lawyer. And some good poems and bad jokes.

Trust Accounting in One Hour for Lawyers is a practical how-to book that will guide you quickly from opening your lawyer trust account to properly using it and providing accurate, timely accountings to your clients.

Satisfying client demands and meeting client expectations is essential for a law firm to succeed in today's ever-changing legal climate. Corporate clients are demanding higher-value legal service because they have seen their legal fees continue to escalate without a demonstration of increased, proportionate business value. The key to long-term success in the legal profession revolves around "client centricity." To help lawyers understand the importance of what the client values, The Value-Able Law Firm provides a new approach to analyzing and discussing, both internally and with clients and potential clients, the issues related to defining, measuring, and implementing higher-value legal service.

This ground-breaking book is an indispensable resource to help Millennials, Gen Xers and Baby Boomers create a more effective work environment.