Remote Work Productivity Tips for Law Firm Employers
A significant portion of legal professionals transitioned to remote work as a matter of need during the pandemic. The industry seems torn on whether or not remote work needs to continue. Persuasive arguments can be made that it should, but rather than get into that debate again, let’s focus on what matters: productivity. How […]
How to Improve Worker & Employee Productivity At Your PI Firm
As a lawyer, your job is to help clients and win cases, but as a business manager, your job is to keep your firm operating as efficiently as possible. Providing excellent value to your clients is one of the best ways to remain competitive in the personal injury law marketplace. To do this, you need […]
Streamlining Workflows – How Law Firms Can Get More Done Faster
In every law office, there is a flow. How cases are handled from intake through disbursal in a PI firm, for example. There are workflows within that larger flow, like the steps paralegals take with evidence gathering, insurance inquiries, demands, and so on. How much of that work is about moving the case forward, and […]
4 Law Firm Management Strategies to Increase Employee Effectiveness
There are a few challenges that law firms of all sizes have in common. Most run at least a little on the lean side, making efficient and effective management vitally important. Getting all the work done, making clients happy, and generating profit means you need to maximize every employee’s potential. Here are a few strategies […]
How to Assess & Evaluate Employee Performance at Your Law Firm
Most law firms are creatures of habit. They go with what’s worked for a long time. That applies to everything from software to people. But what if it could be better? Evaluating performance is crucial to success – for both case results and your bottom line – and your law firm’s system of evaluation, if […]
The Top 5 Bad Work Habits in a Law Firm – and How to Kick Them
For a law firm trying to reach its revenue goals, time, processes, and people matter. But bad work habits can inconspicuously infiltrate your work environment and affect your staff’s productivity, your firm’s workplace culture, and your bottom line. All of the habits that your employees have right now — good and bad — are part […]
How Can You Tell the Difference Between a Good Performer Who Is Overwhelmed and a Poor Performer?
This may seem like a straightforward question, but it’s not. Why? Because the causes of poor performance are not always straightforward. It can be the result of someone who doesn’t have the skills or attitude to perform. Or it can be the result of someone who is being asked to do too much. Both types of employees […]
How Workplace Culture Impacts Productivity
Everybody is talking about workplace culture. As work environments shift, and law firms reconfigure office space and contemplate new balances between remote and in-office worker populations, there is a renewed focus on the importance of workplace culture and how to preserve it. Some feel that the trend towards remote work environments will inevitably hurt workplace […]
Measuring Employee Productivity: How Much Data Is Enough? And Other Important Questions
To grow your law firm’s profitability, you must rely on data – to monitor case movement and client satisfaction, to measure attorney and paralegal work progress, and to motivate outstanding performance. My firm is one of the largest PI firms in the Southeast, and our Founder, Jim Farrin, firmly believes that a law firm is […]
Make Sure Your Staff Is on Point, Even if They’re Not on Site
Today, law firms across the country are questioning whether they should continue to let their attorneys and paralegals work from home. Most firms were forced by the COVID pandemic to implement a remote work environment this past year, but not many embraced it. And they’re grappling with the wrong question. It’s less of a question […]
