Your Legal Management Resource Hub to FM
ALA Today Recording Bundles
ALA has gathered session recordings from ALA Today: The Virtual Conference, webinars, CE courses from Legal Management and e-learning courses together to ensure that legal management professionals have comprehensive education at their fingertips. Check out the package below.
Financial
Management Package
| Platform | Title | Speaker |
| ALA Today: The Virtual Conference Recording | FM01: Accounts Receivable: Persistent, Ethical and Careful Collection of Law Firm AR in the COVID-19 Era | Jeffrey Nicolet |
| Legal Management CE Course | Building a Better Budget | Travis Armstrong, CLM, CPA |
| Webinar | Defining and Calculating Law Firm Profits | Ronald Seigneur, ASA CPA/ABV, CFF, CGMA |
ALA Annual Conference Recordings
Looking for great content from ALA's past events? We now have it all here for you on one easy-to-find page. Discover education from our virtual event in 2021, as well as recordings from virtual and Annual Conferences from the last few years. Browse your options and learn at your pace, on your own time. If you have any questions, please email [email protected].
LFME Course on Financial Management
This course will give you a strong foundation in the essentials of law firm financial management, whether you want to expand your repertoire or you’re new to financial responsibilities. View the course and its seven modules on our easy-to-use learning management system. There, you’ll see that its content is delivered in a dynamic, self-directed fashion — complete with animation, videos, games, quizzes and traditional text and graphics — with help from ALA member and finance extraordinaire, Lisa A. Waligorski, CLM.
Preview the course by clicking on this video:
Continuing Education Courses
Building a Better Budget, by Travis C. Armstrong, CPA, CLM
The Risk of Idolizing False Profits, by Timothy B. Corcoran
How to Ethically Oversee Trust Accounts, by Richard Dippel, JD, MBA, CPA
Legal Management Articles
A Blueprint to Brace for a Recession
Leasing and Financing Can Work to Your Advantage in an Inflationary Economy
Cash Flow Can Help Your Firm Grow
3 Insights We’ve Learned After a Decade of Alternative Fee Arrangements
Solving the Law Firm Succession Puzzle Through Compensation Systems
Why Poor Timekeeping Could Be Costing Your Firm (And How to Fix It)
Facing Your Firm's Biggest Financial Roadblocks
Financial Leadership in Uncertain Times
7 Things Law Firms Should Do Now
Seeing Is Believing When Managing Accounts Receivable the Right Way
Strategies to Successfully Close the Books on 2020
Forecast 2021: Return to Normalcy
Improve Your Cash Position During Uncertainty Through a Cash Reimbursement
Succession Planning: Protecting Your Firm’s Financial Future
Podcasts
Payment Processing with Kevin Gallagher
Compensation and Benefits Trends with Phillip Perry
Cost Recovery for E-Discovery and Litigation with Rob Mattern and Nathan Curtis
Partner Compensation with Tim Corcoran
Building and Sustaining Financial Success for Your Firm with Felix Oberholzer
Overcoming Top Compensation Issues in Law Firms with Edward Rataj, CCP, CECP
FM Reference Library
These finance articles are also available in the Online Community Reference Library.
- ALA Presentation on Component Profitability — Excel Worksheets
- Review of Law Firm Economics 101
- Raise Your Firm Billing Structure ROI
- The Client Alternative: Tailoring Alternative Fee Arrangements to Clients' Needs
- Budgeting Basics: How to Get Staff Buy-In — and Participation in — the Budgeting Process
- Many Happy Returns: Evaluate Your Pension Plan's Performance
- Pondering Profitability: Law Firms Get Innovative to Stay Ahead
Additional Resources
Get the tools you need through the Resource Hub.
| Job Description Toolkit | CLM Study Guide |
| Peer Networking Directory | ALA's Online Community |
| On-Demand Education | Career Resources |
| Solutions Series Webcasts | Ahead of the Curve |