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The Business Case for a Learning Management System
Dear law firm trainers! In my never-ending quest to be a handy helper, I thought I’d post a document that you could simply cut and paste onto your firm’s letterhead so that you can make a business case for purchasing an LMS. (Of course, I add a few special benefits of…
SUCCESSION - WHAT’S YOUR PLAN?
If you are a member of a law firm with a growing number of aging partners, (so that means all of you); succession planning has become, and continues to be, a growing concern. The changing demographics tell us so. In order to navigate the future of your law firm successfully,…
Welcome Aboard! What Every Organization Should Do to Engage New Employees
Welcome aboard! That’s the heartfelt greeting that you’ll receive from the captain when you board his/her ship or boat. Think back to a time when you were starting a new job. Did you receive that same heartfelt greeting? We’ve all been there—excited about what is to come but apprehensive not…
WebBased Client Portals: The Benefits to Lawyers
In the first post in this series, attorney and MyCase Director Nicole Black introduced the concept of law practice management software platforms with built in client portals. In part two, she outlines the many benefits that web based client portals offer lawyers. Client portals are incredibly valuable tools for law…
A Roundtable with Millennial Lawyers – A Different Perspective
INTRODUCTION There has been a recent flurry of articles aimed at and about “millennial” lawyers — but not many of these articles are written by millennials themselves. Millennials are frequently used as a convenient punching bag by law firms, partially to avoid some of the real issues they face today….
If You Are Not Using Checklists, What Are You Waiting For?
Before leaving for the Amazon, Nicole left an article for me from the Illinois Bar Journal, The Checklist Manifesto for Lawyers. It discusses Atul Gawande‘s incredible book, The Checklist Manifesto. The IBJ article is not special, but Gawande’s book is a must read. Many years ago, I bought copies for everyone in Valorem and we became disciples. When…
Promoting good mental and physical health in the workplace
For many of us, our working day is spent in an office where we sit at a desk, staring at a computer screen and not moving for long stretches of time. It’s no wonder so many of us suffer from: – Lower back pain – Shoulder and neck pain – Headaches and…
LinkedIn for Dummies
Promoting engagement with LinkedIn is a BCLMA 2017 initiative. The goal is to educate and encourage individual engagement with LinkedIn as well as follow and share our BCLMA Company page. This article, “LinkedIn for Dummies” By Kristina Marlow, Director with Lateral Link, is a good start. Enjoy. More than a third of…
How Lawyers Can Learn to Stop Worrying and Love CPD
Is continuing professional development a waste of time? Or, more specifically, have law societies made a mistake by using mandatory professional development as a mechanism for ensuring lawyer competence? The Supreme Court of Canada recently upheld the Law Society of Manitoba’s mandatory CPD requirement in Green v Law Society of…
FORGET SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURES – “GETTING THE JOB DONE” IS THE KEY
Successful businesses and law firms succeed because they get the right things done. They determine a vision, identify strategic key objectives, strategies to achieve those, make decisions around these and then make sure they are implemented. This gets results – the real test of everything. Too often I think firms and…
