You don’t need to make it completely impossible for someone to steal a server, you just need to keep them busy long enough for the police to arrive.

How do you spot a person who is likely to engage in dishonesty within the firm, and how do you prevent it?

Accordingly, a major part of time management is learning to set your own goals at levels that energize you and seek to drive you to learn new information and approaches. By setting SMART goals, you can make the most of your time and motivate yourself to perform at your best (as well as your team).

Accordingly we believe that to truly give direction to your life as well as make the most of your time, you must address both of these two components: namely how to sort out the truly important goals for your life and then how to find the time to pursue them. Only in this way do we believe you can find both satisfaction and meaning in your life.

Tips on all the ways that you can keep the staff turnover rate at your firm low:

Take time today to put in place a system for regularly closing, storing and purging files and materials that you and your clients no longer need, and you'll never want for storage space or an organized filing system.

Take a hard look at your compensation system and see if it is aligned with your business goals - both short-term and long-term. Ensure that your future is being secured every day by rewarding the types of activities that will ensure progress towards long-term goals - that are in the best interests of the firm as a whole.

Your Key Statistics Report is the nerve-center of your cash-flow analysis. This report looks directly at the factors affecting cash flow, both in the short-term and in the slightly longer term.

The short opinion survey is one of the easiest, cheapest, and least used client development tools available to the law firm.

In a 1995 Harvard Business Review article entitled “Why Satisfied Clients Defect,” the authors pointed out the important distinction between satisfied clients and completely satisfied clients.  In markets where competition was intense, they noted a tremendous difference between the loyalty of satisfied and completely satisfied customers.  For instance, in the auto industry they found that even a slight drop from complete satisfaction resulted in an enormous drop in customer loyalty.

This phenomenon is not limited to manufactured products.  It …

Most firms spend far too many hours and kill way too many trees producing reports which are rarely reviewed, month after month, for their lawyers . The reality is that, in order to successfully manage the financial health of the firm, you only need to get lawyers to look at exceptions to the norm, not the norm itself.

For example, for management purposes, while you look at all the firm’s receivables each month, the reports that you prepare for the lawyers do not need this level of detail. You only need to show the ones which are over a certain …