Practice Management

Leverage
There is much written that Big Law. and traditional law firms in general, are more effective because they apply leverage to increase partner income. They employ associates (at various ratios) and staff, such as paralegals, assistants and secretaries, to leverage the work, billable hours, and collections per partner...

Leverage in the Board Room
I've recently posted the paper I'll be presenting at Vic's NIE conference. The rather bulky title is Leverage in the...

Leverage and morale
Heather Milligan quotes Adam Smith in her blog posting today. I respectfully disagree with his assertions.  This is what I said to Heather: It's hard for me not to disagree more...

Canada's Law21: Leverage--and redesigning value.
Firms: Your call, your move. From "The New Leverage" at Jordan Furlong's Law21: The thrust of the results [a survey by pioneering Legal OnRamp] by is that in-house lawyers aren?t especially happy with outside counsel in terms of service, partnering and communication ? nothing new there ? but are surprisingly tentative about predicting major change in how they go about acquiring services from these law firms...

How can lawyers leverage their time
Most lawyers earn a living by setting their hourly rate and then charging for the number of hours (or fractions thereof) that they work. The biggest challenge for lawyers, particularly solo practitioners, is how to leverage their time...

The Great De-Leveraging
Just as I was thinking it was about time to publish a column on the topic of "leverage" at law firms (roughly speaking, the associate to partner ratio, although there's more than one way to calculate something that people will call "leverage"), here comes a slew of pieces on the...

$33 Million Awarded to Boy Injured by Drunken Driver
Drunk Driver To Pay $33 Million to Injured Friend

Apeks Scuba Diving Regulator
Recalled Due To Missing Part

Ellsworth School District
4.4% increase in salaries as part of contract settlement.

Tyson Foods
Donates Chickens as Part of Class Action Settlement

Asbestos Cleanup
Penn. Electric Co. pays part of $77,498 settlement in environmental lawsuit.

Energy Price Gouging
Inergy Propane announces refunds to customers as part of lawsuit settlement.