The OBA’s Enterprising Lawyer series offers expert advice and insights on establishing and maintaining a profitable and fulfilling legal practice. From starting your practice, to running it effectively, to ultimately winding it down, we’ve got you covered with this valuable series.
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Building Your Team – Hiring Support Staff and Students
April 8, 2025
Do you know how to use your law firm’s metrics to track and optimize performance? As a sole practitioner or partner at a small firm, this is an essential way to effectively use information that is already available to you to better understand your firm’s operations and make improvements to increase efficiencies and improve your bottom line. Plus, hear from the founder of a communications company specializing in marketing law firms on what to know about using social media to build your brand, and how those metrics can be used to reach the clients that are looking for you.
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Understanding Law Firm Metrics, and Marketing
Original program date February 25, 2025
Do you know how to use your law firm’s metrics to track and optimize performance? As a sole practitioner or partner at a small firm, this is an essential way to effectively use information that is already available to you to better understand your firm’s operations and make improvements to increase efficiencies and improve your bottom line. Plus, hear from the founder of a communications company specializing in marketing law firms on what to know about using social media to build your brand, and how those metrics can be used to reach the clients that are looking for you.
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The Nuts and Bolts of Bookkeeping and Accounting for Your Legal Practice
Original Program Date: May 30, 2024
Accurate and complete financial records are essential to meeting your professional obligations and making sound financial decisions about your practice, but are you up to speed on everything you need to know? Join us to take a look at the “nuts and bolts” of bookkeeping and accounting for your legal practice, including:
- Best practices for working with a bookkeeper or accountant, including do you need one?
- What accounting software options are available, and what can they do for you?
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Starting a Remote Law Practice
Original Program Date: May 14, 2024
New legal technologies provide exciting new ways to establish or expand your client base virtually and into areas outside of your geographical location, and to offer legal services in the absence of a physical office space. However, taking advantage of these new technologies and practice setting requires careful planning and consideration.
