Subject Index Law Practice and Office Management

Your accounting program can produce reports that help you measure productivity and improve your bottom line. Are you using them to full advantage?

The e-mail messages, postal letters, notes, briefs, names and addresses, and other data connected with a case; how do you store it all in one place? Here are some options.

Can you truly measure how much each lawyer costs your firm and how much profit he or she generates? Here's a guide to getting an accurate cost/revenue picture.

The damage that drug, alcohol, or otherwise impaired "problem lawyers" do to your firm lingers long after they leave. Here's how to nip problems in the bud, and maybe salvage a career in the bargain.

What kinds of insurance does your practice need, and how much? Here's an overview.

A technolegal tale from the future. And the future is good.

Here's the hardware and software you need to network the computers in your office and increase your efficiency and productivity.

It's not a matter of whether you'll have a computer failure but when. Here's how to tell whether your backup system is up to snuff.

Small-firm computing is no longer about which computer to buy; even the basic models are powerful enough. Now it's about how to set up a network that lets you share programs and files.

Are you doing all you should to make sure confidential client information stays that way in your office?

Your word-processing software may be making confidential information available to your adversaries without your knowing it. Here's how it happens and what you can do about it.

Let's face it; sometimes you can't prevent fires, floods, violent attacks and the like from wreaking havoc in the workplace. But you can prepare for the worst.

The print law library is dead. Long live the Internet law library.

Given that Illinois sole practitioners can't sell their practices, how can they prepare for death or retirement? This article discusses the problem and outlines a few steps solos can take on behalf of clients and family.

Do you find yourself printing e-mail missives and saving the paper? Here's a better way to create an e-mail archive.

Do you find yourself printing e-mail missives and saving the paper? Here's a better way to create an e-mail archive.

Don't let your brainchildren be like the proverbial cobbler's shoeless kids; lawyer, protect your IP rights.

With some basic disaster planning, you can keep your practice up and running even if your office is damaged or destroyed.

Need a loan to grow your practice or even out cash flow? Here's what your banker has to offer and what you'll be asked to provide in return.

What's in that name on your firm's letterhead? Trouble, if you don't mind your ps and qs.

Driven into a corner by e-mail overload? Here's how to fight back.

The best motivator isn't money, it's recognition.

Until the paperless office arrives, consider this approach to storing and organizing hard-copy documents.

A review of the ethical issues facing lawyers as they communicate the nature of their practices.

The author argues that Illinois should abandon its Electronic Commerce Security Act and follow the national uniform approach.

You've heard the buzzwords, but what is "knowledge management" and what can it do for you? Read on.

Applications service providers, or ASPs, rent computer programs over the Web. They can give you more computing power and flexibility for less money, but beware the risks.

A look at how far we've come in law office technology in the last 30-plus years.

What if, instead of buying a lot of separate programs, you put all of your data on one computer and use a standard Web browser like Internet Explorer to input, search, and display the results?