Center For Practice Management
Resources for Growing Your Practice
Are you considering growing your practice or just making sure that you are aligning with best practices? From hiring to policies to business continuity, the following are resources to help your firm grow successfully.
Hiring and Firm Structure
Hiring and Retention
- Why Gen Z Preferences Should Matter to Law Firms – Law Technology Today
- Generation Z Law Students Want Remote Work Option, Survey Says (bloomberglaw.com)
- Gen Z Recruitment: How to Ensure New Hires Will Stick Around (attorneyatlawmagazine.com)
- What We Know About Gen Z So Far | Pew Research Center
- 10 Defining Characteristics of Generation Z (ttisi.com)
- Generations and Hiring – Materials from ABA TECHSHOW
Posting Jobs
In addition to going directly through the law schools consider posting jobs on LinkedIn Talent Solutions and the NCBA Career Board Legal Jobs – NCBA Career Center (ncbar.org). Write your job post to “sell” the job as an experience and include information about why someone would want to work for you, not just what is expected of them.
Salaries
- Bureau of Labor and Statistics:
- Tools from Robert Half Legal
- NALP Research: Private Sector Salaries
Sample Associate Employment Agreements
- ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT (gabar.org)
- Sample Associate Agreement – practicePRO
- Checklist for Creating Associate Agreement.pdf (osbplf.org)
Partnership Agreements
- How to Start a Partnership (LP/LLP/LLLP) in North Carolina | NC Secretary of State
- Practice Aids and Forms – Oregon State Bar PLF (osbplf.org)
- How to Partner Like a Pro (Calloway, Mitchell)
Operations
Sample Law Firm Policies
- Office Procedure Manual (Lawyers Mutual)
- Law Office Policy & Procedures Manual, 6th edition (American Bar Association)
- Law Office Policies, Procedures, and Operations Manual, Seventh Edition (American Bar Association)
- Growing a Law Firm: Creating an Employee Handbook (Findlaw)
- Cyber Security Policy Template for Law Firms and Legal Professionals (Legal Computer Consultants)
- Security Policy Templates (SANS)
- Remote Access Policy Template (Focal Point)
Sample Business Continuity and Succession plans
- Planning Ahead: Protecting Your Clients’ Interests in the Event of Your Disability or Death (Michigan Bar)
- Contingency Planning for Lawyers (Practice Pro)
- Managing Practice Interruptions (Includes a Business Continuity worksheet in Excel Format) (Practice Pro)
- Business Continuity Worksheet.docx (NCBA ST&MP conference 2019)
- Disaster Planning and Recovery (NC Lawyers Mutual)
- Does Your Law Firm Disaster Plan Include a Pandemic? (NCBA Small Firm Technology Section)
- Expecting the Unexpected – North Carolina Bar Association
- Good Backup Is Good Business Continuity – North Carolina Bar Association
- I Quit: Checklists for Departing Attorneys/Staff – North Carolina Bar Association
Security
- How to Identify a Phishing Attempt and Thwart It – North Carolina Bar Association
- The Tale of the Stolen Briefcase – North Carolina Bar Association
- Make Email Less Dangerous – North Carolina Bar Association
- Simple Steps to Protect Mobile Devices – North Carolina Bar Association
- Basic Security Best Practices for Law Firms – North Carolina Bar Association
- Is a Password Enough to Keep Your Sensitive Information Safe? – North Carolina Bar Association
SOP (Standard Operating Procedures)
- Your Firm Cookbook: Why and How – North Carolina Bar Association (ncbar.org)
- Unseen Risks and The Great Reshuffling – North Carolina Bar Association
- Your Law Firm Cookbook: How and Why – Legal Talk Network
Choosing Practice Management Software
Marketing
Online Reviews and Reputation Management
- Be Proactive: Online Reviews and Reputation Management – North Carolina Bar Association (ncbar.org)
- Responding to Negative Online Reviews – North Carolina Bar Association (ncbar.org)
Newsletters
- Trying Out LinkedIn Newsletters – North Carolina Bar Association
- Tools for Email Marketing – North Carolina Bar Association
Website and General Marketing
- Do You Own Your Firm’s Web Presence? – North Carolina Bar Association
- Six Marketing Tips You Can Do Today – North Carolina Bar Association
- Checklist: Essential Elements of Law Firm Websites – North Carolina Bar Association
- Publish or Perish: How to Get Published – North Carolina Bar Association
- Measure Twice, Cut Once – North Carolina Bar Association