Tips For Monitoring Regulatory Changes in Your Law Firm's Practice Area
Regulations in the legal field are ever-changing, but with the right tools, keeping up with these changes and how they affect your firm is manageable. Having good preparation and knowledge is crucial if you want to be successful with your clients. Monitoring regulations require more than paying a legal information broker. Below are some solutions to help...
Planning Your "Elevator Pitch" That Best Represents Your Law Firm
Everyone knows about the "elevator speech." It is the term for the quick pitch you give about yourself when someone asks what you do. But have you taken the time to think about how you will answer that question in a way that best represents you as a lawyer and your law firm?
It can be helpful to take some time to plan and practice your elevator pitch so...
Nominations Open For Public Justice Trial Lawyer of The Year 2023
Authored by: Candace Whitman
Nominations for the Public Justice Trial Lawyer of the Year 2023 are now open! Nominations will close on March 1, 2023.
The Trial Lawyer of the Year award recognizes a lawyer or team of lawyers "who made the greatest contribution to the public interest within the past year by trying or settling a precedent-setting, socially s...
Milestone Trial LawHER Scholarship Now Open
Milestone is now accepting applications for their third annual Trial LawHER Scholarship. The scholarship is a $10,000 scholarship to be given to a female rising 3L who aspires to become a plaintiff trial lawyer.
According to Milestone, "This scholarship intends to elevate a rising woman leader in the plaintiff trial lawyer space and educate future trial l...
Work-Life Balance Tips for Lawyers
The work that you do as a lawyer is time intensive, competitive, and emotionally draining. The stress of the job can lead to burnout if you don't develop positive habits to manage stress. The National Law Review provided some helpful strategies to improve your work-life balance.
Take time to think about what you would like your personal and professional l...
How Law Firms Can Support Associates With Business Development Programs
Due to the complexity of hybrid and remote workplaces, associates have to learn, observe, and practice skills more frequently than ever; Thomson Reuters brings multiple strategies on how law firms can provide their young associates with critical business development (BD) skills to help them advance in their careers.To ensure law firms offer business devel...
Tips For Writing Your Attorney Bio Page
Your law firm's website is your first impression on potential clients, so you, of course, want to put your best foot forward. One of the most important pages on your website is your attorney about me page. People hire people so you want prospective clients to get a feel for who you are and how you can help them.
Annette Choti provided some helpful tips f...
Holiday Hours: Happy New Year!
In observance of the New Year's holiday, Advocate Capital’s office will be closed on Friday, Dec. 30th and Monday, Jan. 2nd. We will be closing at 5:00 p.m. CST on Thursday, Dec. 29th.
We will return to the office on Tuesday, Jan. 3rd.
Should you have any questions regarding the processing of any transaction, please feel free to contact our Accounting Tea...
Tips For Running a Client Focused Law Firm
Throughout the year, Thomson Reuters Institute's regular column provided tips for law firms on how to adjust to the changing legal market without sacrificing client service quality.
There are several key themes presented across the columns for the year, including how firms can move beyond the constraints of the pandemic and address other challenges that i...
Marketing and Business Development Trends Impacting Law Firms in 2023
There are often unique challenges for smaller and mid-sized firms within the legal industry. Even as they deal with many of the same issues as firms larger than them, they are limited by their smaller budget, staff, and infrastructure.
The National Law Review offers some information, ideas, and best practices to help smaller and midsize firms navigate som...
