Legal Management Annual Print Issue
2022 Edition: Walking the Well-Being Walk
Legal Management’s fifth annual print edition is here. The issue is focused entirely on your personal and professional wellness. We cover:
- ALA President Sarah Evenson, JD, MBA, shares the importance of completing the stress cycle.
- ALA Senior Managing Editor Valerie Danner explains why we chose wellness as our theme.
- Understanding the explosive intersection of well-being and belonging
- What firms can do to create healthier cultures
- An honest conversation about the role alcohol plays in firms
- Plus, members and business partners share how they make time every day for wellness.
The publication is automatically mailed to all members but you can also download a PDF. Prefer to listen? Check out our new audio playback option!
We’d like to thank the business partners who advertised this year. Our business partners are an integral part of ALA, and we appreciate their continued support!
ABA Retirement Funds | Ahern Insurance Brokerage | BobaGuard | Innovative Computing Systems |
LawPay | Micron Systems CE Manager | Micron Systems Top Performance | Tabs3 |
2021 Edition: ALA Celebrates 50 Years!
Legal Management’s fourth annual print edition is a special one as we take a look back over the last 50 years. This 48-page commemorative issue includes:
- ALA President Michael T. Bumgarner, CLM, CPA, CGMA, on what ALA and the resulting friendships have meant to his career
- A look back at the evolution of the legal management profession and where it’s going
- The role business partners have played in growing the industry (bonus: we include some fun ads that illustrate technology throughout the years)
- Interviews with three members who have been members for all 50 years
- Photos from the many ALA gatherings
- Plus, what yearbook would be complete without autographs? Bring your issue to the 2021 Annual Conference & Expo to get it signed by your ALA friends!
The publication is automatically mailed to all members, but you can also download it and share it from this site. Download the full issue here.
We’d like to thank the business partners who advertised in this special year. Our business partners have been an integral part of ALA these past 50 years!
ABA Retirement Funds | Alert Communications | Frontline Managed Services | GLJ Benefits | Innovative Computing Systems |
LawPay | Orion | PerfectLaw | SurePoint | Tabs3 |
2020 Edition
Legal Management’s third annual print edition features 30-plus pages of all-new content! Our cover story examines how to develop leaders internally at your legal organization. You'll also find topics including:
- ALA President Debra Elsbury, CLM, on leading through the challenges of 2020
- How to increase engagement with a virtual communication strategy
- 5 reasons firms resist online payments
- Plus, all the 2020 ALA award winners
The publication is automatically mailed to all members, but you can also download it and share it from this site. Download the issue here.
2019 Edition
Legal Management’s third annual print edition features 24-plus pages of all-new content! Our
cover story dives into design thinking for legal. Though not a new concept, legal is starting to look to this method as a way of bringing a new perspective to solving challenges that have traditionally been hard to tackle. You'll also
find a feature about ALA's UPBMS, or Uniform Process Based Management System. See how this set of codes guided ALA's Job Description Toolkit. Other topics include:
- ALA President James L. Cornell III’s thoughts on innovation
- Your Firm's Biggest Security Risk (Hint: It’s You)
- 3 Tips for Meeting Your Client's Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives
- Make Succession Planning Part of Your Strategic Plan
The publication is automatically mailed to all members, but you can also download it and share it from this site. Download the PDF.
2018 Edition
Legal Management’s second annual print edition features 20-plus pages of all-new content! Beside a reprint
of the continuing education course on trust accounting, it includes an original cover story on the impact of the #MeToo movement in law firms. Other topics include:
- ALA President April Campbell, JD, on elevating ALA
- 5 Steps to Increase Diversity and Inclusion in Your Organization
- The “I” Word Almost All Law Firms Fear: Innovation
- AI Aiming to Transform Legal
The publication is automatically mailed to all members, but you can also download it and share it from this site. Download the PDF here!
2017 Edition
Legal Management’s first annual print version featured some of our best content from the 2017 digital edition, including our CE course, “Confronting Addiction
in the Law Firm.” We also delved into the ALA Uniform Process Based Management System, or UPBMS. Other topics include:
- ALA's Immediate Past President Gary T. Swisher II, CLM, on the things you're missing out on in Legal Mangement's digital version
- What Kids Can Teach Lawyers About Diversity and Representation
- 10 Steps Every Law Firm Should Take to Protect Its Data