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Proper management of IOLTA accounts is essential to ensuring client trust and avoiding serious disbarment consequences. This step-by-step e-book teaches you how to easily and efficiently manage IOLTA accounts to ensure your firm is in full compliance at all times. Plus, discover how LawPay simplifies the process so you can manage trust accounting and three-way reconciliation with confidence.

Attract a future-focused workforce by leveraging emerging trends in legal talent recruitment, staff retention, and technology.

Learn to adapt to modern fee structures, synchronize billing with client needs using technology, and enhance profitability. Plus, access essential tools and downloadable templates.

As work slows down around the holidays, it’s the perfect time to think about your goals for the following year and start setting up your firm for success. In this guide, you’ll learn five essential steps to position your practice for a year of increased profitability. Plus, enjoy a printable checklist designed to make year-end easy.

A firm’s success relies on getting clients and creating a positive experience for them—bringing in new business generates more revenue, while engaging clients improves retention, boosts your firm’s reputation, and promotes repeat business and referrals. However, client acquisition and retention can be among the most difficult tasks for busy lawyers. Fortunately, there are simple solutions for success.

Cloud technology can increase law firm efficiency and profitability by streamlining time tracking, billing and invoicing, calendaring, and more. So why are some attorneys still hesitant to try it? In this e-book, we’re correcting the six most common myths about cloud technologies.

In our latest e-book, we explore how legal payments have changed in the wake of continuing advancements in technology. We also share how to use technological developments to your advantage to streamline the payment process and boost your firm’s financial health.

Working long hours is often viewed as part and parcel of being in the legal profession. However, many of these hours are wasted on unproductive work, leaving lawyers feeling exhausted and burnt out. Identifying which tasks are productive and which are not enables legal professionals to streamline their efforts, increase efficiency, and ultimately impact firm revenue.

Reassessing how you're working and implementing fresh strategies can boost your business in the new year. Review top tactics to get organized and stay the course toward your firm's most successful year yet.

There are certain things law school just can't prep you for your first year as an attorney. Check out these helpful tips to get you started on the path to becoming a successful legal professional.

Starting your own firm can be simultaneously exciting and nerve-racking. However, being your own boss can be extremely rewarding. Learn the essential steps to get your law firm off the ground and on the right track for success in our e-book, Going Off on Your Own: Your Guide to Running a Modern Firm.

Some legal professionals are hesitant to accept credit card payments from their clients, mostly due to misconceptions about how credit cards work today. We’ve dispelled many of these misconceptions in our latest whitepaper, Credit Card Mythbusting: 7 Reasons Law Firms Still Resist Online Payments.

Staying on top of your firm's revenue can sometimes feel like a daunting task. However, a few small changes can have a big impact on your finances. In our latest whitepaper, 5 Things You Can Do to Impact Your Firm's Bottom Line, we showcase the best techniques attorneys are using to both increase their income and provide superior services to their clients.

In this guide, we will discuss steps that you can utilize in your practice to help you clear out your tagged receivables and hopefully get you paid on an account that you were all but ready to write-off for the year.

For more than a decade, LawPay has helped attorneys get paid easily and securely, and 39 percent faster. Developed specifically for lawyers, LawPay is the easiest way for attorneys to accept client payments online. Download our solution brochure to learn why LawPay is trusted by more than 45,000 law firms.

You’ve decided that this is the year to upgrade your law firm’s operations. Now it’s time to outline your strategy. The question is: do you know where to start? Learn how to re-energize your practice using an iterative approach that focuses on optimizations in specific areas of law firm management.

Opening your own law firm is a challenging endeavor even for the most seasoned legal professionals. There are so many requirements and regulations to adhere to, it can be overwhelming to get started. This is why we've put together a checklist of essential items you’ll need to take the next big step in your career. From obtaining the necessary licenses and permits to building a website, and everything in between, we’ve got you covered!

Online payment solutions can help you get paid up to 39% faster, giving you back more valuable time. Want to know how much time you can save with online payments? Calculate your time savings with the LawPay Time Savings Calculator!

Selecting the right solutions provider is essential when it comes to billing and payments. Take our quiz to see if a potential software partner (or your existing provider) is up to par!

Violating trust account rules can subject a lawyer to disbarment, civil damages, and even criminal charges. Fortunately, there are tools and tips that any attorney can put into practice in their firm to maintain compliance and make recordkeeping a breeze.

While the internet has brought on a whole new world of opportunities for law firms, it also has its own dangers to overcome. Cybercriminals know that legal professionals hold the keys to valuable, sensitive data, and they're constantly looking for ways to get their hands on it. Fortunately, you dont have to be a cybersecurity expert to secure your firm and protect sensitive data.

You have the ability to improve the client experience and increase retention during any interaction—including potentially unpleasant ones. For example, giving clients the option to pay online shows you value their time and want to make their lives easier. See how using modern online payments allowed five law firms to elevate the client experience and ultimately, grow their businesses.

Stay-at-home orders have been loosening up across the country, allowing legal professionals to re-open their physical offices if they so desire. In our latest whitepaper, Returning to the Office: A Guide for Attorneys, we'll go over the most important considerations that firms should take into account if considering returning to some semblance of "normalcy."

It doesn’t matter if you work for a large firm or you run your own private practice—getting your billing right is absolutely crucial. Keep clients happy and keep your cash flow steady by following these four billing dos and avoiding these four billing don’ts.

Made in collaboration with attorney Jared Correia at Red Cave Consulting, our guide, 5 Efficiencies to Boost Your Firm's Productivity, explores five common law firm inefficiencies. Learn how to reduce the stress of managing a practice and increase firm productivity using software solutions and simple organizational strategies.

Proper bookkeeping can give you real-time feedback about the overall health of your business and provide peace of mind. Learn how to set up an accounting system that will help you make better decisions about future spending and billing targets with The Lawyers’ Guide to the Perfect Accounting System.

A consistent routine can do wonders for your productivity, your efficiency, and, most importantly, your profitability. In contrast, without an organized system, you may not realize you haven’t been spending enough time on revenue-driving activities like marketing and relationship-building. Learn the five things you should do every month with our law office checklist.