Legal Management Bookstore

Adapted from Amazon: Everyday Public Relations for Lawyers, 2nd Edition (AttorneyatWork.com, 2019), is a no-nonsense, practical guide with hands-on advice on all the critical aspects of public relations, from the dos and don'ts of media relations to controlling your message to harnessing the power of the internet. Public relations and communications specialist Gina Rubel covers everything you need to know about promoting yourself, your firm and your practice.

As institutions, firms face different, and in some cases, more intense structural challenges than most-if-not-all others. They are not held to the same standards of transparency, financial hygiene, and infrastructural-sterility as their publicly-traded clients. Leadership and management can all too easily be unprepared for their incumbency and overwhelmed by double duties. The firm’s “product” is highly mobile and prone to flight during even minimal financial dips. And while these are just a few hurdles, they alone are more than enough to bring many corporate CEO’s to their knees. The industry presses on, regardless, and deserves some guidance in its evolution.

Today’s law firm is an entity in flux. Economic and technological disruption– along with a range of other factors – have contributed to this change, meaning that firms are not what they used to be. It is therefore a necessity that the way they are managed also needs to change. This means, among many things, the need to corporatize the running of the firm; a move away from the focus on the billable hour towards more intangible activities such as business development and marketing and –perhaps the most important factor – the development of a new kind of leader within the legal landscape.

From Amazon: Leadership, Process Improvement and Life. Each of these areas of thought influences the other two in unique and interesting ways. Small Doses: Common Sense to Common Practice contains some simple and sometimes comedic stories and examples from an innocent bystander. It isn’t theory, but real stuff that anyone can use in their own personal and professional journey. This book will make you think about your own actions, of those around you and question what you might do differently next time.

Curated conjectures. That is what this book contains. Read. Enjoy. Test. Share. Repeat.

Not all collaboration is smart. Make sure you do it right.

Professional service firms face a serious challenge. Their clients increasingly need them to solve complex problems — everything from regulatory compliance to cybersecurity, the kinds of problems that only teams of multidisciplinary experts can tackle.

Yet most firms have carved up their highly specialized, professional experts into narrowly defined practice areas, and collaborating across these silos is often messy, risky, and expensive. Unless you know why you’re collaborating and how to do it effectively, it may not be smart at all. That’s especially true for partners who have built their reputations and client rosters independently, not by working with peers.

From Amazon: With compassion, clarity, and conviction (and a dash of comedy for good measure) popular speaker and employment law attorney Scott Warrick distills conflict resolution to just three simple moves: Empathic Listening, Parroting, and Rewards (EPR). Because no one can use their EPR skills unless they can control themselves, he also shows you how to become an Emotionally Intelligent communicator, as mental toughness is a critical component in resolving conflict. The formula is simple: if you can control yourself, you can learn and master EPR skills to resolve any conflict in any situation -- and build durable trust with others, in your personal life and throughout your organizations, along the way.

Over 90% of the communication problems that plague our life are the dreadful barriers that get in the way of happy relationships and productive interactions. Most of the drama we experience is caused by communication blockers, the regretful words that spring off the tips of our tongues or fingers, ready to cause conflict and chaos. Stop Blocking, Start Connecting shows readers how to transform relationships by recognizing where they get blocked, reducing bad communication habits, removing the 8 common blockers and replacing them with 8 powerful connectors.

Hear an interview with Lee Broekman, a featured expert in the ALA Summit Series Webcasts.

2022 Benchmarking Survey Special Introductory Pricing:

Member participant: $99
Member nonparticipant: $129
Nonmember participant: $159
Nonmember nonparticipant: $189

As law firm staffing becomes even more competitive, legal professionals need current market intelligence to attract top talent. ALA's 2021 Compensation & Benefits Survey includes the most relevant benchmark data including salary data for a variety of law firm positions and information on benefits like parental leave, dental insurance, tuition reimbursement, bonuses and more. The data is further broken down by region, state and metro area, making it even easier to compare your firm to its closest competitors.

Member participant: $329
Member nonparticipant: $439
Nonmember participant: $609
Nonmember nonparticipant: $829

**Includes the 2021 Compensation and Benefits Survey**

As law firm staffing becomes even more competitive, legal professionals need current market intelligence to attract top talent. ALA's 2021 Large Firm Key Staff Compensation Survey includes the most relevant benchmark data for firms with 100 or more attorneys, including:

• Detailed compensation data for the high-level positions crucial to large law firms 
• Data broken down by level of education, certifications, tenure in position, employment agreements, compensation basis, bonus criteria, geographic region, and numerous breakdowns based on firm size.
• Staffing ratios and office best practices
• Firm size

Member participant: $549
Member nonparticipant: $659
Nonmember participant: $769
Nonmember nonparticipant: $989

The legal profession, like so many other fields, has continued to reel from the deep-reaching and significant impact of the 2008 financial crisis. 

In the years following the crash, a general downward turn in the demand for legal services compelled firms to tighten their belts, make tough decisions, and come up with innovative strategies in order to survive. One of these was an increased focus on profitability and different means of managing and improving it, a relatively new development for the legal industry. 

ALA's Job Description Toolkit was designed to assist legal management professionals and their employer organizations in drafting job descriptions using the ALA Uniform Process Based Management System (UPBMS) taxonomy classification/codes.

It provides a step-by-step guide for writing job descriptions, including sample job descriptions organized by the following areas: Administrative, Finance, Human Resources, Intellectual Property, Legal Support Services, and Marketing and Technology.

Features of this resource include:

• A guide on creating job descriptions that apply the UPBMS taxonomy
• A list of resources and tools to use when writing job descriptions
• A sample of job descriptions using the UPBMS

Successful management and culture need to go hand in hand. A firm’s culture is the result of attitudes, personalities, policies, and decisions that ultimately creates the building block for the success of the firm. The Survival Guide to Implementing Effective Law Firm Management Strategies provides you with the groundwork and policies to create a positive law firm environment and business success.

Covering everything from hiring and developing employees to executive compensation to employee safety and security, Human Resource Management is cited as suggested reading in preparing for the Certified Legal Manager (CLM)^SM examination. Author: Robert L. Mathis and John H. Jackson.

ALA's Job Description Toolkit was designed to assist legal management professionals and their employer organizations in drafting job descriptions using the ALA Uniform Process Based Management System (UPBMS) taxonomy classification/codes.

It provides a step-by-step guide for writing job descriptions, including sample job descriptions organized by the following areas: Administrative, Finance, Human Resources, Intellectual Property, Legal Support Services, and Marketing and Technology.

Features of this resource include:

• A guide on creating job descriptions that apply the UPBMS taxonomy
• A list of resources and tools to use when writing job descriptions
• A sample of job descriptions using the UPBMS

Out and About: The LGBT Experience in the Legal Profession is a compilation of stories about the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender attorneys, academics, and jurists in the profession, through their own words. Edited by: Christine W. Young and John T. Hendricks. Published by ABA Book Publishing.

Successful management and culture need to go hand in hand. A firm’s culture is the result of attitudes, personalities, policies, and decisions that ultimately creates the building block for the success of the firm. The Survival Guide to Implementing Effective Law Firm Management Strategies provides you with the groundwork and policies to create a positive law firm environment and business success.

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.

It's no secret that individual lawyers are under siege in a profession with a high incidence of stress, divorce, substance abuse, and suicide. In this groundbreaking multi-dimensional collection, you can find tools and information that enable you to have both a successful career and a happy, satisfied life. These tools will teach you how to harness the transformative power of being more relational and less transactional.

• Publication date: June, 2018
• Pages: 100

• Law Firm Accounting and Financial Management, Fifth Edition
• Human Resource Management, 16th Edition

Pursuing the CLM certification?

This bundle includes 10 on-demand recordings to help you prepare for the exam. It includes materials that meet all 5 of the Management Skill Categories:

• Communication Skills
• IT
• Organizational Development
• Self-Management
  
• Writing
  

When completed, this bundle satisfies the 10 hour requirement for the CLM application.

Need more details?  Click here to review the contents of this bundle.

Are you already networking but all that effort is not translating into results? Does everyone seem to be getting further ahead even though you are just as smart? Are you looking for a new job or up for a promotion? Do you have great ideas but no one seems to be listening to them? If any of these situations resonate, this book is for you!

And even if you are already a Connector, this book will help you take it up a level.

The legal profession, like so many other fields, has continued to reel from the deep-reaching and significant impact of the 2008 financial crisis. 

In the years following the crash, a general downward turn in the demand for legal services compelled firms to tighten their belts, make tough decisions, and come up with innovative strategies in order to survive. One of these was an increased focus on profitability and different means of managing and improving it, a relatively new development for the legal industry. 

Adapted from Amazon: Everyday Public Relations for Lawyers, 2nd Edition (AttorneyatWork.com, 2019), is a no-nonsense, practical guide with hands-on advice on all the critical aspects of public relations, from the dos and don'ts of media relations to controlling your message to harnessing the power of the internet. Public relations and communications specialist Gina Rubel covers everything you need to know about promoting yourself, your firm and your practice.

As institutions, firms face different, and in some cases, more intense structural challenges than most-if-not-all others. They are not held to the same standards of transparency, financial hygiene, and infrastructural-sterility as their publicly-traded clients. Leadership and management can all too easily be unprepared for their incumbency and overwhelmed by double duties. The firm’s “product” is highly mobile and prone to flight during even minimal financial dips. And while these are just a few hurdles, they alone are more than enough to bring many corporate CEO’s to their knees. The industry presses on, regardless, and deserves some guidance in its evolution.

Much has been written about the pace of change facing the legal industry – how certain law firm functions are being replaced by artificial intelligence and new types of service providers, how accounting firms are looking to absorb and replace law firms, and how merging into worldwide mega firms of 3,000 to 10,000 lawyers is the only way to survive. Steve Jobs and others have called this evolution “creative destruction”. Richard Susskind referred to it years ago as “the end of lawyers”.

It is true that the legal market is facing massive change. Technology, new ways of working, alternative methods of billing, and highly disruptive new entrants have all made their mark on the traditional legal business model. The Future of Law Firm Business Models takes a look at all these trends and more, horizon-scanning for future developments, and the ways in which these issues will fundamentally change the market.

In this new second edition, How To Capture and Keep Clients: Marketing Strategies for Lawyers, the best and most innovative solo and small firm lawyers give the reader their secrets, approaches, and strategies to that age-old puzzle of growing your law firm.

Covering everything from hiring and developing employees to executive compensation to employee safety and security, Human Resource Management is cited as suggested reading in preparing for the Certified Legal Manager (CLM)^SM examination. Author: Robert L. Mathis and John H. Jackson.

Innovation. How to go about it, what it can do for your business – what even is it? Can innovation be applied in the legal environment?

Such is the interest and appetite for legal innovation that, in the last 18 months, ARK has published over a dozen titles with innovation in their remit, covering everything from knowledge management to pricing, from marketing to recruitment, and everything in between.

This compilation deep-dives into the key areas that drive innovation forward in the legal profession, combining the views and experiences of 14 leaders in their fields.

The organizational competence of project management provides a solid foundation for every activity conducted by a business and the practice of law. Legal project management (LPM) provides the discipline that enables lawyers and those who manage legal work – in law firms, law departments and alternate legal services providers – to define, demonstrate and deliver greater value by balancing the scope of work, time, and resources as they strive for optimal efficiency, outcomes and client satisfaction.

Although many distinguish the business of law from the practice of law, innovators in legal project management take an integrated approach. In commercial and governmental settings, practicing law is not an academic exercise, nor an end in itself.

ALA's Job Description Toolkit was designed to assist legal management professionals and their employer organizations in drafting job descriptions using the ALA Uniform Process Based Management System (UPBMS) taxonomy classification/codes.

It provides a step-by-step guide for writing job descriptions, including sample job descriptions organized by the following areas: Administrative, Finance, Human Resources, Intellectual Property, Legal Support Services, and Marketing and Technology.

Features of this resource include:

• A guide on creating job descriptions that apply the UPBMS taxonomy
• A list of resources and tools to use when writing job descriptions
• A sample of job descriptions using the UPBMS

Law firms are experiencing a wrenching period of upheaval. Economic crises, technology explosions, and a regulatory revolution have spawned a wave of innovative competitors. Newly empowered clients have adopted aggressive buying behaviors and begun dictating the terms of their relationships to law firms.

Faced with this unprecedented competitive landscape and an industry-wide drop in demand for their services, law firms need effective solutions to these existential challenges. And they need them now.

The paralegal profession continues to experience growth. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook, an 18% growth in the profession is projected between 2010 and 2020. Paralegals and legal assistants are an integral part of the legal system, assisting attorneys with a variety of substantive tasks. A legal assistant or paralegal is a person, qualified by education, training or work experience, who is employed or retained by a lawyer, law office, corporation, governmental agency or other entity and who performs specifically delegated substantive legal work.

The typical duties of a paralegal or legal assistant are incredibly wide-ranging and varied. You are expected to perform all the legal work that does not require a lawyer sometimes, this means performing this legal work for several lawyers and a fair amount of the office tasks. There are also model rules and ethical codes to be followed.

Today’s law firm is an entity in flux. Economic and technological disruption– along with a range of other factors – have contributed to this change, meaning that firms are not what they used to be. It is therefore a necessity that the way they are managed also needs to change. This means, among many things, the need to corporatize the running of the firm; a move away from the focus on the billable hour towards more intangible activities such as business development and marketing and –perhaps the most important factor – the development of a new kind of leader within the legal landscape.

We're entering a new era of innovation. Learn the strategies of the world's most inventive startups, corporations and scientific institutions.

Today, managers are often told that they must "innovate or die," but are given little useful guidance on how to go about it. Sure, there are many books and articles that champion one approach or another, but till now there has been no effective guide to help executives find their way through the tangled jungle of competing ideas.

Covering Excel for Windows versions 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021 & Microsoft 365.

Microsoft Excel for Legal Professionals is easy to read and full of numbered steps and screen illustrations. It starts with the basics and works it way up, focusing exclusively on topics relevant to legal professionals and skips those which are not. It includes instructions on creating fiduciary accounting, amortization schedules, real estate closing statements, disbursement schedules, medical bill summaries, graphical representations of data, mail merging using Excel as a list manager, and many useful formulas for use with dates, numbers, text, and logic. This Microsoft Excel Manual is written with you in mind!

A sample of this content can be seen by clicking Here.

Covering Outlook for Windows versions 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021 & Microsoft 365.

Microsoft Outlook for Legal Professionals is easy to read and covers email management, fixing default settings, and all of the little-known features that make email, calendar, and contact management easier. This Microsoft Outlook Manual is written with you in mind!

A sample of this content can be seen by clicking Here.

Microsoft PowerPoint for Legal Professionals is easy to read and full of numbered steps and screen illustrations specific for Microsoft PowerPoint. It focuses exclusively on topics relevant to legal professionals and skips those which are not. It represents over 20 years of experience by Affinity Consulting Group using PowerPoint in and out of the court room, as well as including tips, tricks and little-know techniques. This Microsoft PowerPoint Manual is written with you in mind!

A sample of this content can be seen by clicking  Here.

Covering Word for Mac versions 2019 & Microsoft 365.

Microsoft Word for Mac for Legal Professionals is easy to read and full of numbered steps and screen illustrations specific for Microsoft Word for Mac. It focuses exclusively on topics relevant to legal professionals and skips those which are not. It representations a 21-year compilation of how to tackle just about every Word issue encountered by Affinity Consulting Group in a legal environment, as well as legal word processing tips, tricks and little-know techniques. This Microsoft Word for Mac Manual is written with you in mind!

A sample of this content can be seen by clicking Here.

Covering Word for Windows versions 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021 & Microsoft 365.

Microsoft Word for Legal Professionals is easy to read and full of numbered steps and screen illustrations. It focuses exclusively on topics relevant to legal professionals and skips those which are not. It representations a 21-year compilation of how to tackle just about every Word issue encountered by Affinity Consulting Group in a legal environment, as well as legal word processing tips, tricks and little-know techniques. This Microsoft Word Manual is written with you in mind!

A sample of this content can be seen by clicking Here.

NetDocuments for Legal Professionals is easy to read and full of numbered steps and screen illustrations. It focuses exclusively on topics relevant to legal professionals and skips those which are not. This NetDocs Manual is written with you in mind!!

NetDocuments for Legal Professionals focuses exclusively on topics relevant to legal professionals and skips those which are not. It represents a compilation of years of how to tackle just about every NetDocs document management issue encountered by Affinity Consulting Group in a legal environment, as well as tips, tricks and little-know techniques.

A sample of this content can be seen by clicking Here.

Out and About: The LGBT Experience in the Legal Profession is a compilation of stories about the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender attorneys, academics, and jurists in the profession, through their own words. Edited by: Christine W. Young and John T. Hendricks. Published by ABA Book Publishing.

The legal community is notorious for generating paper--and lots of it. But lawyers can save time and money by transitioning to a paperless office. Paperless in One Hour for Lawyers will show even the most committed paper devotees how to run their law offices digitally. 

When the second edition of Risk Management: Survival Tools for Law Firms was published in 2007, the legal landscape was very different. Since then developments like new technologies, the financial crisis, and the rise of non-lawyers as major providers of legal services have all transformed the legal world immeasurably. In this new environment, managing risk no longer means simply avoiding malpractice claims and staying ethical. It now requires lawyers and law firms to address an increasingly complex world of rules and regulations in order to keep firms both respected and profitable.

Not all collaboration is smart. Make sure you do it right.

Professional service firms face a serious challenge. Their clients increasingly need them to solve complex problems — everything from regulatory compliance to cybersecurity, the kinds of problems that only teams of multidisciplinary experts can tackle.

Yet most firms have carved up their highly specialized, professional experts into narrowly defined practice areas, and collaborating across these silos is often messy, risky, and expensive. Unless you know why you’re collaborating and how to do it effectively, it may not be smart at all. That’s especially true for partners who have built their reputations and client rosters independently, not by working with peers.

The Study Guide for the CLM Exam Practice Questions, Preparation and Reviews was designed to help you prepare effectively to earn the prestigious Certified Legal Manager (CLM)® credential. The study guide presents comprehensive information relating to the four functional areas covered in the exam, along with review questions and a 100-item practice exam.

Successful management and culture need to go hand in hand. A firm’s culture is the result of attitudes, personalities, policies, and decisions that ultimately creates the building block for the success of the firm. The Survival Guide to Implementing Effective Law Firm Management Strategies provides you with the groundwork and policies to create a positive law firm environment and business success.

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.

It's no secret that individual lawyers are under siege in a profession with a high incidence of stress, divorce, substance abuse, and suicide. In this groundbreaking multi-dimensional collection, you can find tools and information that enable you to have both a successful career and a happy, satisfied life. These tools will teach you how to harness the transformative power of being more relational and less transactional.

• Publication date: June, 2018
• Pages: 100

• Law Firm Accounting and Financial Management, Fifth Edition
• Human Resource Management, 16th Edition

Pursuing the CLM certification?

This bundle includes 10 on-demand recordings to help you prepare for the exam. It includes materials that meet all 5 of the Management Skill Categories:

• Communication Skills
• IT
• Organizational Development
• Self-Management
  
• Writing
  

When completed, this bundle satisfies the 10 hour requirement for the CLM application.

Need more details?  Click here to review the contents of this bundle.

Are you already networking but all that effort is not translating into results? Does everyone seem to be getting further ahead even though you are just as smart? Are you looking for a new job or up for a promotion? Do you have great ideas but no one seems to be listening to them? If any of these situations resonate, this book is for you!

And even if you are already a Connector, this book will help you take it up a level.

The legal profession, like so many other fields, has continued to reel from the deep-reaching and significant impact of the 2008 financial crisis. 

In the years following the crash, a general downward turn in the demand for legal services compelled firms to tighten their belts, make tough decisions, and come up with innovative strategies in order to survive. One of these was an increased focus on profitability and different means of managing and improving it, a relatively new development for the legal industry. 

Adapted from Amazon: Everyday Public Relations for Lawyers, 2nd Edition (AttorneyatWork.com, 2019), is a no-nonsense, practical guide with hands-on advice on all the critical aspects of public relations, from the dos and don'ts of media relations to controlling your message to harnessing the power of the internet. Public relations and communications specialist Gina Rubel covers everything you need to know about promoting yourself, your firm and your practice.

As institutions, firms face different, and in some cases, more intense structural challenges than most-if-not-all others. They are not held to the same standards of transparency, financial hygiene, and infrastructural-sterility as their publicly-traded clients. Leadership and management can all too easily be unprepared for their incumbency and overwhelmed by double duties. The firm’s “product” is highly mobile and prone to flight during even minimal financial dips. And while these are just a few hurdles, they alone are more than enough to bring many corporate CEO’s to their knees. The industry presses on, regardless, and deserves some guidance in its evolution.

Much has been written about the pace of change facing the legal industry – how certain law firm functions are being replaced by artificial intelligence and new types of service providers, how accounting firms are looking to absorb and replace law firms, and how merging into worldwide mega firms of 3,000 to 10,000 lawyers is the only way to survive. Steve Jobs and others have called this evolution “creative destruction”. Richard Susskind referred to it years ago as “the end of lawyers”.

It is true that the legal market is facing massive change. Technology, new ways of working, alternative methods of billing, and highly disruptive new entrants have all made their mark on the traditional legal business model. The Future of Law Firm Business Models takes a look at all these trends and more, horizon-scanning for future developments, and the ways in which these issues will fundamentally change the market.

In this new second edition, How To Capture and Keep Clients: Marketing Strategies for Lawyers, the best and most innovative solo and small firm lawyers give the reader their secrets, approaches, and strategies to that age-old puzzle of growing your law firm.

Covering everything from hiring and developing employees to executive compensation to employee safety and security, Human Resource Management is cited as suggested reading in preparing for the Certified Legal Manager (CLM)^SM examination. Author: Robert L. Mathis and John H. Jackson.

Innovation. How to go about it, what it can do for your business – what even is it? Can innovation be applied in the legal environment?

Such is the interest and appetite for legal innovation that, in the last 18 months, ARK has published over a dozen titles with innovation in their remit, covering everything from knowledge management to pricing, from marketing to recruitment, and everything in between.

This compilation deep-dives into the key areas that drive innovation forward in the legal profession, combining the views and experiences of 14 leaders in their fields.

The organizational competence of project management provides a solid foundation for every activity conducted by a business and the practice of law. Legal project management (LPM) provides the discipline that enables lawyers and those who manage legal work – in law firms, law departments and alternate legal services providers – to define, demonstrate and deliver greater value by balancing the scope of work, time, and resources as they strive for optimal efficiency, outcomes and client satisfaction.

Although many distinguish the business of law from the practice of law, innovators in legal project management take an integrated approach. In commercial and governmental settings, practicing law is not an academic exercise, nor an end in itself.

ALA's Job Description Toolkit was designed to assist legal management professionals and their employer organizations in drafting job descriptions using the ALA Uniform Process Based Management System (UPBMS) taxonomy classification/codes.

It provides a step-by-step guide for writing job descriptions, including sample job descriptions organized by the following areas: Administrative, Finance, Human Resources, Intellectual Property, Legal Support Services, and Marketing and Technology.

Features of this resource include:

• A guide on creating job descriptions that apply the UPBMS taxonomy
• A list of resources and tools to use when writing job descriptions
• A sample of job descriptions using the UPBMS

Law firms are experiencing a wrenching period of upheaval. Economic crises, technology explosions, and a regulatory revolution have spawned a wave of innovative competitors. Newly empowered clients have adopted aggressive buying behaviors and begun dictating the terms of their relationships to law firms.

Faced with this unprecedented competitive landscape and an industry-wide drop in demand for their services, law firms need effective solutions to these existential challenges. And they need them now.

The paralegal profession continues to experience growth. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook, an 18% growth in the profession is projected between 2010 and 2020. Paralegals and legal assistants are an integral part of the legal system, assisting attorneys with a variety of substantive tasks. A legal assistant or paralegal is a person, qualified by education, training or work experience, who is employed or retained by a lawyer, law office, corporation, governmental agency or other entity and who performs specifically delegated substantive legal work.

The typical duties of a paralegal or legal assistant are incredibly wide-ranging and varied. You are expected to perform all the legal work that does not require a lawyer sometimes, this means performing this legal work for several lawyers and a fair amount of the office tasks. There are also model rules and ethical codes to be followed.

Today’s law firm is an entity in flux. Economic and technological disruption– along with a range of other factors – have contributed to this change, meaning that firms are not what they used to be. It is therefore a necessity that the way they are managed also needs to change. This means, among many things, the need to corporatize the running of the firm; a move away from the focus on the billable hour towards more intangible activities such as business development and marketing and –perhaps the most important factor – the development of a new kind of leader within the legal landscape.

We're entering a new era of innovation. Learn the strategies of the world's most inventive startups, corporations and scientific institutions.

Today, managers are often told that they must "innovate or die," but are given little useful guidance on how to go about it. Sure, there are many books and articles that champion one approach or another, but till now there has been no effective guide to help executives find their way through the tangled jungle of competing ideas.

Covering Excel for Windows versions 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021 & Microsoft 365.

Microsoft Excel for Legal Professionals is easy to read and full of numbered steps and screen illustrations. It starts with the basics and works it way up, focusing exclusively on topics relevant to legal professionals and skips those which are not. It includes instructions on creating fiduciary accounting, amortization schedules, real estate closing statements, disbursement schedules, medical bill summaries, graphical representations of data, mail merging using Excel as a list manager, and many useful formulas for use with dates, numbers, text, and logic. This Microsoft Excel Manual is written with you in mind!

A sample of this content can be seen by clicking Here.

Covering Outlook for Windows versions 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021 & Microsoft 365.

Microsoft Outlook for Legal Professionals is easy to read and covers email management, fixing default settings, and all of the little-known features that make email, calendar, and contact management easier. This Microsoft Outlook Manual is written with you in mind!

A sample of this content can be seen by clicking Here.

Microsoft PowerPoint for Legal Professionals is easy to read and full of numbered steps and screen illustrations specific for Microsoft PowerPoint. It focuses exclusively on topics relevant to legal professionals and skips those which are not. It represents over 20 years of experience by Affinity Consulting Group using PowerPoint in and out of the court room, as well as including tips, tricks and little-know techniques. This Microsoft PowerPoint Manual is written with you in mind!

A sample of this content can be seen by clicking  Here.

Covering Word for Mac versions 2019 & Microsoft 365.

Microsoft Word for Mac for Legal Professionals is easy to read and full of numbered steps and screen illustrations specific for Microsoft Word for Mac. It focuses exclusively on topics relevant to legal professionals and skips those which are not. It representations a 21-year compilation of how to tackle just about every Word issue encountered by Affinity Consulting Group in a legal environment, as well as legal word processing tips, tricks and little-know techniques. This Microsoft Word for Mac Manual is written with you in mind!

A sample of this content can be seen by clicking Here.

Covering Word for Windows versions 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021 & Microsoft 365.

Microsoft Word for Legal Professionals is easy to read and full of numbered steps and screen illustrations. It focuses exclusively on topics relevant to legal professionals and skips those which are not. It representations a 21-year compilation of how to tackle just about every Word issue encountered by Affinity Consulting Group in a legal environment, as well as legal word processing tips, tricks and little-know techniques. This Microsoft Word Manual is written with you in mind!

A sample of this content can be seen by clicking Here.

NetDocuments for Legal Professionals is easy to read and full of numbered steps and screen illustrations. It focuses exclusively on topics relevant to legal professionals and skips those which are not. This NetDocs Manual is written with you in mind!!

NetDocuments for Legal Professionals focuses exclusively on topics relevant to legal professionals and skips those which are not. It represents a compilation of years of how to tackle just about every NetDocs document management issue encountered by Affinity Consulting Group in a legal environment, as well as tips, tricks and little-know techniques.

A sample of this content can be seen by clicking Here.

Price: $195.00

Ops in a Box, Legal Edition is a magical kit to help jump start legal operations in the law department and law firm markets. With 30 templates and over 195 pages of content, it is the first essential tool kit for Legal Ops Professionals seeking to launch their strategic plan, for seasoned operations teams seeking to fine tune existing tools and for small departments that need operations help aids but do not have the budget for a full-time operations professional.

For every 2021 purchase you make using code ALA50, they will support the Foundation of ALA with a donation of $19.71 and share the love with a 5% discount for you!

Link to purchase: https://opsinaboxlegal.com/products/ops-in-a-box-legal-edition

Out and About: The LGBT Experience in the Legal Profession is a compilation of stories about the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender attorneys, academics, and jurists in the profession, through their own words. Edited by: Christine W. Young and John T. Hendricks. Published by ABA Book Publishing.

The legal community is notorious for generating paper--and lots of it. But lawyers can save time and money by transitioning to a paperless office. Paperless in One Hour for Lawyers will show even the most committed paper devotees how to run their law offices digitally. 

When the second edition of Risk Management: Survival Tools for Law Firms was published in 2007, the legal landscape was very different. Since then developments like new technologies, the financial crisis, and the rise of non-lawyers as major providers of legal services have all transformed the legal world immeasurably. In this new environment, managing risk no longer means simply avoiding malpractice claims and staying ethical. It now requires lawyers and law firms to address an increasingly complex world of rules and regulations in order to keep firms both respected and profitable.

Not all collaboration is smart. Make sure you do it right.

Professional service firms face a serious challenge. Their clients increasingly need them to solve complex problems — everything from regulatory compliance to cybersecurity, the kinds of problems that only teams of multidisciplinary experts can tackle.

Yet most firms have carved up their highly specialized, professional experts into narrowly defined practice areas, and collaborating across these silos is often messy, risky, and expensive. Unless you know why you’re collaborating and how to do it effectively, it may not be smart at all. That’s especially true for partners who have built their reputations and client rosters independently, not by working with peers.

Successful management and culture need to go hand in hand. A firm’s culture is the result of attitudes, personalities, policies, and decisions that ultimately creates the building block for the success of the firm. The Survival Guide to Implementing Effective Law Firm Management Strategies provides you with the groundwork and policies to create a positive law firm environment and business success.

It's no secret that individual lawyers are under siege in a profession with a high incidence of stress, divorce, substance abuse, and suicide. In this groundbreaking multi-dimensional collection, you can find tools and information that enable you to have both a successful career and a happy, satisfied life. These tools will teach you how to harness the transformative power of being more relational and less transactional.

Are you already networking but all that effort is not translating into results? Does everyone seem to be getting further ahead even though you are just as smart? Are you looking for a new job or up for a promotion? Do you have great ideas but no one seems to be listening to them? If any of these situations resonate, this book is for you!

And even if you are already a Connector, this book will help you take it up a level.

Adapted from Amazon: Everyday Public Relations for Lawyers, 2nd Edition (AttorneyatWork.com, 2019), is a no-nonsense, practical guide with hands-on advice on all the critical aspects of public relations, from the dos and don'ts of media relations to controlling your message to harnessing the power of the internet. Public relations and communications specialist Gina Rubel covers everything you need to know about promoting yourself, your firm and your practice.

Law firms are experiencing a wrenching period of upheaval. Economic crises, technology explosions, and a regulatory revolution have spawned a wave of innovative competitors. Newly empowered clients have adopted aggressive buying behaviors and begun dictating the terms of their relationships to law firms.

Faced with this unprecedented competitive landscape and an industry-wide drop in demand for their services, law firms need effective solutions to these existential challenges. And they need them now.

We're entering a new era of innovation. Learn the strategies of the world's most inventive startups, corporations and scientific institutions.

Today, managers are often told that they must "innovate or die," but are given little useful guidance on how to go about it. Sure, there are many books and articles that champion one approach or another, but till now there has been no effective guide to help executives find their way through the tangled jungle of competing ideas.

"A book that starches the fluff from social media and helps managers allocate capital and find the unicorn among unicorns...ROI." — Scott Galloway, Professor of Marketing, NYU Stern School of Business.

"This isn't just a practical way to think about the return on social media, it's also a spot-on accurate way to reframe your social efforts." — Ann Handley, Chief Content Officer, MarketingProfs, WSJ Bestselling author of Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content

Every top salesman knows there’s nothing more important than being ‘top of mind’ with customers.

From Amazon: Leadership, Process Improvement and Life. Each of these areas of thought influences the other two in unique and interesting ways. Small Doses: Common Sense to Common Practice contains some simple and sometimes comedic stories and examples from an innocent bystander. It isn’t theory, but real stuff that anyone can use in their own personal and professional journey. This book will make you think about your own actions, of those around you and question what you might do differently next time.

Curated conjectures. That is what this book contains. Read. Enjoy. Test. Share. Repeat.

Not all collaboration is smart. Make sure you do it right.

Professional service firms face a serious challenge. Their clients increasingly need them to solve complex problems — everything from regulatory compliance to cybersecurity, the kinds of problems that only teams of multidisciplinary experts can tackle.

Yet most firms have carved up their highly specialized, professional experts into narrowly defined practice areas, and collaborating across these silos is often messy, risky, and expensive. Unless you know why you’re collaborating and how to do it effectively, it may not be smart at all. That’s especially true for partners who have built their reputations and client rosters independently, not by working with peers.

From Amazon: With compassion, clarity, and conviction (and a dash of comedy for good measure) popular speaker and employment law attorney Scott Warrick distills conflict resolution to just three simple moves: Empathic Listening, Parroting, and Rewards (EPR). Because no one can use their EPR skills unless they can control themselves, he also shows you how to become an Emotionally Intelligent communicator, as mental toughness is a critical component in resolving conflict. The formula is simple: if you can control yourself, you can learn and master EPR skills to resolve any conflict in any situation -- and build durable trust with others, in your personal life and throughout your organizations, along the way.

Over 90% of the communication problems that plague our life are the dreadful barriers that get in the way of happy relationships and productive interactions. Most of the drama we experience is caused by communication blockers, the regretful words that spring off the tips of our tongues or fingers, ready to cause conflict and chaos. Stop Blocking, Start Connecting shows readers how to transform relationships by recognizing where they get blocked, reducing bad communication habits, removing the 8 common blockers and replacing them with 8 powerful connectors.

Hear an interview with Lee Broekman, a featured expert in the ALA Summit Series Webcasts.

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As law firm staffing becomes even more competitive, legal professionals need current market intelligence to attract top talent. ALA's 2021 Compensation & Benefits Survey includes the most relevant benchmark data including salary data for a variety of law firm positions and information on benefits like parental leave, dental insurance, tuition reimbursement, bonuses and more. The data is further broken down by region, state and metro area, making it even easier to compare your firm to its closest competitors.

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As law firm staffing becomes even more competitive, legal professionals need current market intelligence to attract top talent. ALA's 2021 Large Firm Key Staff Compensation Survey includes the most relevant benchmark data for firms with 100 or more attorneys, including:

• Detailed compensation data for the high-level positions crucial to large law firms 
• Data broken down by level of education, certifications, tenure in position, employment agreements, compensation basis, bonus criteria, geographic region, and numerous breakdowns based on firm size.
• Staffing ratios and office best practices
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Covering everything from hiring and developing employees to executive compensation to employee safety and security, Human Resource Management is cited as suggested reading in preparing for the Certified Legal Manager (CLM)^SM examination. Author: Robert L. Mathis and John H. Jackson.

ALA's Job Description Toolkit was designed to assist legal management professionals and their employer organizations in drafting job descriptions using the ALA Uniform Process Based Management System (UPBMS) taxonomy classification/codes.

It provides a step-by-step guide for writing job descriptions, including sample job descriptions organized by the following areas: Administrative, Finance, Human Resources, Intellectual Property, Legal Support Services, and Marketing and Technology.

Features of this resource include:

• A guide on creating job descriptions that apply the UPBMS taxonomy
• A list of resources and tools to use when writing job descriptions
• A sample of job descriptions using the UPBMS

Covering Excel for Windows versions 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021 & Microsoft 365.

Microsoft Excel for Legal Professionals is easy to read and full of numbered steps and screen illustrations. It starts with the basics and works it way up, focusing exclusively on topics relevant to legal professionals and skips those which are not. It includes instructions on creating fiduciary accounting, amortization schedules, real estate closing statements, disbursement schedules, medical bill summaries, graphical representations of data, mail merging using Excel as a list manager, and many useful formulas for use with dates, numbers, text, and logic. This Microsoft Excel Manual is written with you in mind!

A sample of this content can be seen by clicking Here.

Covering Outlook for Windows versions 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021 & Microsoft 365.

Microsoft Outlook for Legal Professionals is easy to read and covers email management, fixing default settings, and all of the little-known features that make email, calendar, and contact management easier. This Microsoft Outlook Manual is written with you in mind!

A sample of this content can be seen by clicking Here.

Microsoft PowerPoint for Legal Professionals is easy to read and full of numbered steps and screen illustrations specific for Microsoft PowerPoint. It focuses exclusively on topics relevant to legal professionals and skips those which are not. It represents over 20 years of experience by Affinity Consulting Group using PowerPoint in and out of the court room, as well as including tips, tricks and little-know techniques. This Microsoft PowerPoint Manual is written with you in mind!

A sample of this content can be seen by clicking  Here.

Covering Word for Mac versions 2019 & Microsoft 365.

Microsoft Word for Mac for Legal Professionals is easy to read and full of numbered steps and screen illustrations specific for Microsoft Word for Mac. It focuses exclusively on topics relevant to legal professionals and skips those which are not. It representations a 21-year compilation of how to tackle just about every Word issue encountered by Affinity Consulting Group in a legal environment, as well as legal word processing tips, tricks and little-know techniques. This Microsoft Word for Mac Manual is written with you in mind!

A sample of this content can be seen by clicking Here.

Covering Word for Windows versions 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021 & Microsoft 365.

Microsoft Word for Legal Professionals is easy to read and full of numbered steps and screen illustrations. It focuses exclusively on topics relevant to legal professionals and skips those which are not. It representations a 21-year compilation of how to tackle just about every Word issue encountered by Affinity Consulting Group in a legal environment, as well as legal word processing tips, tricks and little-know techniques. This Microsoft Word Manual is written with you in mind!

A sample of this content can be seen by clicking Here.

NetDocuments for Legal Professionals is easy to read and full of numbered steps and screen illustrations. It focuses exclusively on topics relevant to legal professionals and skips those which are not. This NetDocs Manual is written with you in mind!!

NetDocuments for Legal Professionals focuses exclusively on topics relevant to legal professionals and skips those which are not. It represents a compilation of years of how to tackle just about every NetDocs document management issue encountered by Affinity Consulting Group in a legal environment, as well as tips, tricks and little-know techniques.

A sample of this content can be seen by clicking Here.

The Study Guide for the CLM Exam Practice Questions, Preparation and Reviews was designed to help you prepare effectively to earn the prestigious Certified Legal Manager (CLM)® credential. The study guide presents comprehensive information relating to the four functional areas covered in the exam, along with review questions and a 100-item practice exam.

• Law Firm Accounting and Financial Management, Fifth Edition
• Human Resource Management, 16th Edition

Pursuing the CLM certification?

This bundle includes 10 on-demand recordings to help you prepare for the exam. It includes materials that meet all 5 of the Management Skill Categories:

• Communication Skills
• IT
• Organizational Development
• Self-Management
  
• Writing
  

When completed, this bundle satisfies the 10 hour requirement for the CLM application.

Need more details?  Click here to review the contents of this bundle.

Covering everything from hiring and developing employees to executive compensation to employee safety and security, Human Resource Management is cited as suggested reading in preparing for the Certified Legal Manager (CLM)^SM examination. Author: Robert L. Mathis and John H. Jackson.

The Study Guide for the CLM Exam Practice Questions, Preparation and Reviews was designed to help you prepare effectively to earn the prestigious Certified Legal Manager (CLM)® credential. The study guide presents comprehensive information relating to the four functional areas covered in the exam, along with review questions and a 100-item practice exam.

It's no secret that individual lawyers are under siege in a profession with a high incidence of stress, divorce, substance abuse, and suicide. In this groundbreaking multi-dimensional collection, you can find tools and information that enable you to have both a successful career and a happy, satisfied life. These tools will teach you how to harness the transformative power of being more relational and less transactional.

Are you already networking but all that effort is not translating into results? Does everyone seem to be getting further ahead even though you are just as smart? Are you looking for a new job or up for a promotion? Do you have great ideas but no one seems to be listening to them? If any of these situations resonate, this book is for you!

And even if you are already a Connector, this book will help you take it up a level.

Adapted from Amazon: Everyday Public Relations for Lawyers, 2nd Edition (AttorneyatWork.com, 2019), is a no-nonsense, practical guide with hands-on advice on all the critical aspects of public relations, from the dos and don'ts of media relations to controlling your message to harnessing the power of the internet. Public relations and communications specialist Gina Rubel covers everything you need to know about promoting yourself, your firm and your practice.

Much has been written about the pace of change facing the legal industry – how certain law firm functions are being replaced by artificial intelligence and new types of service providers, how accounting firms are looking to absorb and replace law firms, and how merging into worldwide mega firms of 3,000 to 10,000 lawyers is the only way to survive. Steve Jobs and others have called this evolution “creative destruction”. Richard Susskind referred to it years ago as “the end of lawyers”.

It is true that the legal market is facing massive change. Technology, new ways of working, alternative methods of billing, and highly disruptive new entrants have all made their mark on the traditional legal business model. The Future of Law Firm Business Models takes a look at all these trends and more, horizon-scanning for future developments, and the ways in which these issues will fundamentally change the market.

ALA's Job Description Toolkit was designed to assist legal management professionals and their employer organizations in drafting job descriptions using the ALA Uniform Process Based Management System (UPBMS) taxonomy classification/codes.

It provides a step-by-step guide for writing job descriptions, including sample job descriptions organized by the following areas: Administrative, Finance, Human Resources, Intellectual Property, Legal Support Services, and Marketing and Technology.

Features of this resource include:

• A guide on creating job descriptions that apply the UPBMS taxonomy
• A list of resources and tools to use when writing job descriptions
• A sample of job descriptions using the UPBMS

Covering Excel for Windows versions 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021 & Microsoft 365.

Microsoft Excel for Legal Professionals is easy to read and full of numbered steps and screen illustrations. It starts with the basics and works it way up, focusing exclusively on topics relevant to legal professionals and skips those which are not. It includes instructions on creating fiduciary accounting, amortization schedules, real estate closing statements, disbursement schedules, medical bill summaries, graphical representations of data, mail merging using Excel as a list manager, and many useful formulas for use with dates, numbers, text, and logic. This Microsoft Excel Manual is written with you in mind!

A sample of this content can be seen by clicking Here.

Covering Outlook for Windows versions 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021 & Microsoft 365.

Microsoft Outlook for Legal Professionals is easy to read and covers email management, fixing default settings, and all of the little-known features that make email, calendar, and contact management easier. This Microsoft Outlook Manual is written with you in mind!

A sample of this content can be seen by clicking Here.

Microsoft PowerPoint for Legal Professionals is easy to read and full of numbered steps and screen illustrations specific for Microsoft PowerPoint. It focuses exclusively on topics relevant to legal professionals and skips those which are not. It represents over 20 years of experience by Affinity Consulting Group using PowerPoint in and out of the court room, as well as including tips, tricks and little-know techniques. This Microsoft PowerPoint Manual is written with you in mind!

A sample of this content can be seen by clicking  Here.

Covering Word for Mac versions 2019 & Microsoft 365.

Microsoft Word for Mac for Legal Professionals is easy to read and full of numbered steps and screen illustrations specific for Microsoft Word for Mac. It focuses exclusively on topics relevant to legal professionals and skips those which are not. It representations a 21-year compilation of how to tackle just about every Word issue encountered by Affinity Consulting Group in a legal environment, as well as legal word processing tips, tricks and little-know techniques. This Microsoft Word for Mac Manual is written with you in mind!

A sample of this content can be seen by clicking Here.

Covering Word for Windows versions 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021 & Microsoft 365.

Microsoft Word for Legal Professionals is easy to read and full of numbered steps and screen illustrations. It focuses exclusively on topics relevant to legal professionals and skips those which are not. It representations a 21-year compilation of how to tackle just about every Word issue encountered by Affinity Consulting Group in a legal environment, as well as legal word processing tips, tricks and little-know techniques. This Microsoft Word Manual is written with you in mind!

A sample of this content can be seen by clicking Here.

NetDocuments for Legal Professionals is easy to read and full of numbered steps and screen illustrations. It focuses exclusively on topics relevant to legal professionals and skips those which are not. This NetDocs Manual is written with you in mind!!

NetDocuments for Legal Professionals focuses exclusively on topics relevant to legal professionals and skips those which are not. It represents a compilation of years of how to tackle just about every NetDocs document management issue encountered by Affinity Consulting Group in a legal environment, as well as tips, tricks and little-know techniques.

A sample of this content can be seen by clicking Here.

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Ops in a Box, Legal Edition is a magical kit to help jump start legal operations in the law department and law firm markets. With 30 templates and over 195 pages of content, it is the first essential tool kit for Legal Ops Professionals seeking to launch their strategic plan, for seasoned operations teams seeking to fine tune existing tools and for small departments that need operations help aids but do not have the budget for a full-time operations professional.

For every 2021 purchase you make using code ALA50, they will support the Foundation of ALA with a donation of $19.71 and share the love with a 5% discount for you!

Link to purchase: https://opsinaboxlegal.com/products/ops-in-a-box-legal-edition

From Amazon: Leadership, Process Improvement and Life. Each of these areas of thought influences the other two in unique and interesting ways. Small Doses: Common Sense to Common Practice contains some simple and sometimes comedic stories and examples from an innocent bystander. It isn’t theory, but real stuff that anyone can use in their own personal and professional journey. This book will make you think about your own actions, of those around you and question what you might do differently next time.

Curated conjectures. That is what this book contains. Read. Enjoy. Test. Share. Repeat.

From Amazon: With compassion, clarity, and conviction (and a dash of comedy for good measure) popular speaker and employment law attorney Scott Warrick distills conflict resolution to just three simple moves: Empathic Listening, Parroting, and Rewards (EPR). Because no one can use their EPR skills unless they can control themselves, he also shows you how to become an Emotionally Intelligent communicator, as mental toughness is a critical component in resolving conflict. The formula is simple: if you can control yourself, you can learn and master EPR skills to resolve any conflict in any situation -- and build durable trust with others, in your personal life and throughout your organizations, along the way.