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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 2019 Annual Conference Recordings

Featuring the following sessions from ALA's 2019 Annual Conference:
FM20: The Basics of Life in the Law Firm Accounting Lane
FM23: You Know the Numbers: So What?
FM24: Rethinking Profitability in a Changing Marketplace: Profitability, Partner Comp, Pricing
FM30: Rethinking Partner Compensation in a Changing Marketplace: Profitability, Partner Comp, Pricing
FM31: Rethinking Pricing in a Changing Marketplace; Profitability, Partner Comp, Pricing
FM32: The Performance Metrics Dashboard: A Powerful Management Tool!
Click here to purchase the conference recording bundle of FM sessions. If you attended the 2019 Annual Conference, the bundles are free to you. Log in to the ALA site to get the free package.
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Did you miss ALA's 2018 Annual Conference & Expo? You can purchase conference video recordings from the event. Click here to review the recorded sessions and purchase the 2018 conference recording bundle for FM sessions. If you attended the 2018 Annual Conference, the bundles are free to you. Log in to the ALA site to get the free package.
New LFME Course on Financial Management
Want to feel more confident looking at your balance sheet? Wondering if there a limit to the number of shareholders you can have? Revisiting how much to charge your clients? ALA has a new e-learning course about financial management that can help you address all these questions and more.
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
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
7 Ways to Refine Your Billing Practices
Keeping on Track with Key Performance Indicators
The Risk of Idolizing False Profits (Get CE Credit by taking the quiz with this article)
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 |