Time, Billing & Accounting

Illinois - the third best ‘real billing rate’ nationwide for solos and smalls?

By Matthew Hector, December 2016
Billing Practices That Keep Clients Happy

By Kerry M. Lavelle, May 2022
Cloud-Based Legal Billing: A Practical Pie-in-the-Sky Concept?

By Chad Beckett, September 2019
Five Reasons Why QuickBooks Isn’t Enough

By Steven J. Best, July 2019
What You Might Have Forgotten About Billing Clients

By David M. Neff, January 2019
Outsourced Bookkeeping-Is Your Firm a Candidate?

By Jennifer Ramovs, August 2018
Billing practices that keep clients happy

By Kerry M. Lavelle, May 2018
5 Technologies That Can Transform Your Practice

By Ed Finkel, April 2018
I moved my time & billing and practice management to the cloud

By Bryan M. Sims, November 2017
Billing options

By Amber Mikula, May 2017
The law practice MBA

By Kerry M. Lavelle, October 2016
Billing—The health of your firm

By Herschenia Aria Brown, October 2016
Top Billing

By Ed Finkel, October 2016
Best Practices for Billing, Robot Lawyers?

September 2015
Alternative Billing Comes to Main Street

By Ed Finkel, October 2014
Timesheets and billing tips

By Kevin J. Stine, March 2014
The billing world is FLAT: Making flat fees work

By William S. Wilson, April 2013
Transitioning to Clio: A personal diary, part 2

By Alan R. Press, March 2012
Transitioning to Clio: A personal diary

By Alan R. Press, February 2012
Changes: How an alternative rock song can provide insight to the evolution of the cost for legal services

By Joseph B. VanFleet, February 2012
Beyond the Billable Hour

By Helen W. Gunnarsson, February 2012
Make fiduciary accounting software work for you

By Janet L. Grove, December 2011
Bill for your value, not just your labor

By Dan Breen, April 2011
Now How Much Would You Pay? Avoiding Involuntary Pro Bono

By Karen Erger, August 2010
Question: How is the legal profession responding to the challenges of the recession? Answer: Alternative billing practices

By Patrick T. Driscoll Jr. and Patricia M. Fallon, April 2010
Editor’s column: Current economic downturn requires lawyers to evaluate case acceptance, billing and credit policies

By John T. Phipps, January 2009
Don’t Be Afraid To Be Paid

By Helen W. Gunnarsson, November 2008
Bill4Time Internet-based time and billing software

By Alan R. Press, August 2008
The trouble with hourly billing

By Helen W. Gunnarsson, June 2007
Billing Gallantly

By Karen Erger, December 2006
How do you measure success?

By Terry Rosenthal, December 2005
The economics of a business law practice

By Carl R. Draper, April 2005
Attorney billing practices: What is a consumer of legal services to think?

By G.A. Finch, August 2003
Use Financial, Management Reports to Increase Your Profitability

By Paul Sullivan, May 2003
Time is money

By Nerino J. Petro Jr., June 2001
Jump-Start Your Cash Flow

By Paul Sullivan, September 2000
Less pain, more pay

By Helen Sigman, January 2000
Inexpensive time and billing software

By Adrienne W. Albrecht, November 1999
Chicago firm’s new client-centric website opens up about fees

By Matthew Hector, December 2017

Collections

What You Might Have Forgotten About Billing Clients

By David M. Neff, January 2019
Outsourced Bookkeeping-Is Your Firm a Candidate?

By Jennifer Ramovs, August 2018
From the Newsletters - If you’re using an attorneys lien to collect fees, sweat the details

April 2016
A primer on perfecting and enforcing attorneys’ liens

By Jennifer Friedland, March 2016
Can You Accept Bitcoins as Payment?

By Bailey E. Cunningham, January 2015
Ethics corner: A word of caution when accepting credit card payments

By Michael J. Drabant, July 2014
1099s for deadbeat clients?

By Helen W. Gunnarsson, January 2009
Law office management 102: Getting your financial house in order

By Mary A. Corrigan, May 2007
Let divorce practitioners beware: Attorneys must sue clients within one year to recover fees

By Cecilia Hynes Griffin, October 2005
“Miranda Warnings” for debt collection lawsuits

By Patrick E. Ward and Darla A. Foulker, May 2004

IOLTA

Outsourced Bookkeeping-Is Your Firm a Candidate?

By Jennifer Ramovs, August 2018
E-mail scams and lawyer trust accounts

December 2016
Rule change makes it easier to clear ‘mystery money’ from IOLTA accounts

By Matthew Hector, June 2015
The sting of IOLTA overdraft alerts

By Matthew Hector, March 2015
Accepting credit-card payments? Mind your trust-account ps and qs

By Mark S. Mathewson, September 2014
New IOLTA requirements effective September 1

By Helen W. Gunnarsson, September 2011

Law Firm Accounting

Five Reasons Why QuickBooks Isn’t Enough

By Steven J. Best, July 2019
Outsourced Bookkeeping-Is Your Firm a Candidate?

By Jennifer Ramovs, August 2018
Law firm financial management: Practical tips and suggestions—Part 2 of a multi-part series

By John W. Olmstead, May 2018
5 Technologies That Can Transform Your Practice

By Ed Finkel, April 2018
Wrap it Up!

By Jennifer Ramovs, November 2017
I moved my time & billing and practice management to the cloud

By Bryan M. Sims, November 2017
Tax basics for the new managing partner of the small firm

By Amy Rupiper, September 2017
Law firm financial management: Practical tips and suggestions—Part 1 of a multi-part series

By John W. Olmstead, September 2017

Retainers

Outsourced Bookkeeping-Is Your Firm a Candidate?

By Jennifer Ramovs, August 2018
Five reasons to collect a retainer up front in lieu of getting paid at the closing

By Colleen L. Sahlas, April 2011
Engagement Letters, Fees and the Dowling Case

By David A. Berek and Fred R. McMorris, May 2008
Supreme Court analyzes retainer agreements

By Willis R. Tribler and Glenn Fischer, February 2008
From Here to Retainer Fees

By Helen W. Gunnarsson, December 2007
Attorney’s retaining lien, circa 1889

By John B. Kincaid, March 2006

Attorney Fees

Fee Petitions: Kaiser and beyond

By James J. Ayres, December 2016
To disgorge or not to disgorge?

By Zachary Williams, December 2016
Location, location, location: All you really need to know about disgorgement of fees

By Rory T. Weiler, December 2016
Cash flow management for contingent fee firms

By Daniel M. Breen, May 2016
Maximizing Your Recovery in Fee-Shifting Cases

By Andy Norman, February 2015
Look before you leap: A primer on fees allowed when taking over a contingent fee case

By Ronald W. Kalish, March 2011
Attorney fees: Avoiding pitfalls to preserve the right of contribution

By Douglas B. Warlick, August 2010
The DOs and DON’Ts when seeking fees in probate

By Martin W. Siemer, June 2010
The ethics of fee sharing in tort law cases

By Albert E. Durkin, October 2009
Casenote: In re: Kohlenbrener v. North Suburban Clinic, Ltd. 356 ILL.APP.3D 414 (1ST DIST. 2005)

By John W. Foltz, May 2006
Attorney fees and the Rules of Professional Conduct

By Chris E. Freese, January 1999
Chicago firm’s new client-centric website opens up about fees

By Matthew Hector, December 2017

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