Employee retention was ranked within the top three HR challenges for law firms this year. However, there are a number of steps your firm can take to safeguard against losing quality legal staff.
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Hive Legal Queen Bee of 2014 ALPMA / Telstra Thought Leadership Award
Hive Legal, start-up virtual law firm, crowned 2014 ALPMA/Telstra Thought Leadership Award winner at last night’s ALPMA Summit Gala dinner in Melbourne. The award recognised Hive Legal as 2014’s outstanding law firm who are doing things differently and successfully adapting to changes in the legal landscape.
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Blurred Lines: How to Find a Work Life Balance
Is it 9pm? Are you still at work? You’re working too hard. Mental health problems are known to be rife within the legal profession. Long hours can lead to burnout, so if it’s success and longevity you’re after, work smarter, not longer.
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Coleman Greig Law Firm Shares its Secrets to Legal Best Practice
Award-winning Australian law firm Coleman Greig is a legal best practice trailblazer. General manager, Warrick McLean, shares his thoughts on what legal best practice means to the firm and why it’s essential…
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The Importance of Developing Leadership in Law Firms
Despite the fact that lawyers are intelligent and highly qualified professionals, they seem inherently ill-adapted to leadership and management roles. Why is this the case? What impact does it have…
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Electronic Documents… Can Law Offices Go Paperless?
Are legal records worth the paper they’re written on? Electronic documents and records are replacing their paper counterparts in many sectors, but the legal industry is taking longer to adapt.…
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Big Data: Reshaping the Legal Landscape
In any law firm, big data comes from a range of different sources. Client files, archives, timesheet and billing systems each contain large amounts of information. Externally, there are case law databases, social media networks, research papers and media reports.
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5 of Your Best Law Firm Marketing Tactics
In busy law firms, productivity is key and non-billable activities such as law firm marketing are often neglected. However, as it turns out, even the busiest lawyers can benefit from…
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4 Ways to Ensure Your Law Firm Regulatory Compliance Meets Obligations
The legal profession has unique workplace requirements. Law firm regulatory compliance processes can be difficult, time consuming and costly. Instead of procrastinating about the workload ahead, follow these ways to…
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A Guide to Managing Client Expectations: Unrealistic to Realistic
Demanding clients are nothing new in law, so how can you live up to their expectations while maintaining your sanity? Here are some tips to managing client expectations that are unattainable in the short term, or unsustainable in the long term.
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