Whitepapers
- Basic Accounting Information You Need to Know
- Accounting Guidance FOR YEAR END Success
- Timekeeping and Billing Systems
- Client Costs Advanced
- Client Trust Funds
- Budgeting And Account Management
- Why You Need An Accounting Program
- Why Lawyers Should Keep Track Of Time
- Time Versus Value Billing (Shifting The Risk)
- Law Firm Financial Reporting
- What If Your Accountant Wants You Use QuickBooks or Peachtree (now Sage 50c)?
- A Beginners Guide to Understanding LEDES
Videos
- Actionstep Training Recordings (26 Videos)
- Orion Training Recordings (14 Videos)
- PCLaw Training Recordings (9 Videos)
- Tabs3 Training Recordings (52 Videos)
- Zola Suite Training Recordings (23 Videos)
- Affinity Webinars about Time Billing Accounting
- Quick Takes for Your Practice: What is IOLTA
- Quick Takes for Your Practice: Unidentified funds in IOLTA accounts
- Quick Takes for Your Practice: 3 Tips on How to Avoid Fee Disputes in Criminal Cases
Products and Services
Practice Management
- Practice Management (Cloud-Based) Comparison Chart
- Practice Management (Server-Based / Traditional) Comparison Chart
- Clio
- CosmoLex
- MyCase
- Rocket Matter
Bookkeeping
- Time, Billing, & Accounting (Cloud-Based) Comparison Chart
- Time, Billing, & Accounting (Server-Based / Traditional) Comparison Chart
- YourBooks from Affinity Consulting Group
Financial Services
ISBA Books
Free On-Demand CLE
Eligible ISBA members receive 15 hours of Free On-Demand CLE as a member benefit. Non-members may purchase these programs.
Ethics
ISBA Advisory Opinions on Professional Conduct
Articles
Billing
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December 2016Illinois - the third best ‘real billing rate’ nationwide for solos and smalls?
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May 2022Billing Practices That Keep Clients Happy
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September 2019Cloud-Based Legal Billing: A Practical Pie-in-the-Sky Concept?
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July 2019Five Reasons Why QuickBooks Isn’t Enough
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January 2019What You Might Have Forgotten About Billing Clients
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August 2018Outsourced Bookkeeping-Is Your Firm a Candidate?
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May 2018Billing practices that keep clients happy
- April 2018
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November 2017I moved my time & billing and practice management to the cloud
- May 2017
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October 2016The law practice MBA
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October 2016Billing—The health of your firm
- October 2016
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September 2015Best Practices for Billing, Robot Lawyers?
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October 2014Alternative Billing Comes to Main Street
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March 2014Timesheets and billing tips
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April 2013The billing world is FLAT: Making flat fees work
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March 2012Transitioning to Clio: A personal diary, part 2
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February 2012Transitioning to Clio: A personal diary
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February 2012Changes: How an alternative rock song can provide insight to the evolution of the cost for legal services
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February 2012Beyond the Billable Hour
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December 2011Make fiduciary accounting software work for you
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April 2011Bill for your value, not just your labor
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August 2010Now How Much Would You Pay? Avoiding Involuntary Pro Bono
- April 2010
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January 2009Editor’s column: Current economic downturn requires lawyers to evaluate case acceptance, billing and credit policies
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November 2008Don’t Be Afraid To Be Paid
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August 2008Bill4Time Internet-based time and billing software
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June 2007The trouble with hourly billing
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December 2006Billing Gallantly
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December 2005How do you measure success?
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April 2005The economics of a business law practice
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August 2003Attorney billing practices: What is a consumer of legal services to think?
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May 2003Use Financial, Management Reports to Increase Your Profitability
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June 2001Time is money
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September 2000Jump-Start Your Cash Flow
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January 2000Less pain, more pay
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November 1999Inexpensive time and billing software
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December 2017Chicago firm’s new client-centric website opens up about fees
Collections
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January 2019What You Might Have Forgotten About Billing Clients
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August 2018Outsourced Bookkeeping-Is Your Firm a Candidate?
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April 2016From the Newsletters - If you’re using an attorneys lien to collect fees, sweat the details
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March 2016A primer on perfecting and enforcing attorneys’ liens
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January 2015Can You Accept Bitcoins as Payment?
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July 2014Ethics corner: A word of caution when accepting credit card payments
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January 20091099s for deadbeat clients?
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May 2007Law office management 102: Getting your financial house in order
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October 2005Let divorce practitioners beware: Attorneys must sue clients within one year to recover fees
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May 2004“Miranda Warnings” for debt collection lawsuits
IOLTA
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August 2018Outsourced Bookkeeping-Is Your Firm a Candidate?
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December 2016E-mail scams and lawyer trust accounts
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June 2015Rule change makes it easier to clear ‘mystery money’ from IOLTA accounts
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March 2015The sting of IOLTA overdraft alerts
- September 2014
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September 2011New IOLTA requirements effective September 1
Law Firm Accounting
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July 2019Five Reasons Why QuickBooks Isn’t Enough
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August 2018Outsourced Bookkeeping-Is Your Firm a Candidate?
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May 2018Law firm financial management: Practical tips and suggestions—Part 2 of a multi-part series
- April 2018
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November 2017Wrap it Up!
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November 2017I moved my time & billing and practice management to the cloud
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September 2017Tax basics for the new managing partner of the small firm
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September 2017Law firm financial management: Practical tips and suggestions—Part 1 of a multi-part series
Retainers
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August 2018Outsourced Bookkeeping-Is Your Firm a Candidate?
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April 2011Five reasons to collect a retainer up front in lieu of getting paid at the closing
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May 2008Engagement Letters, Fees and the Dowling Case
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February 2008Supreme Court analyzes retainer agreements
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December 2007From Here to Retainer Fees
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March 2006Attorney’s retaining lien, circa 1889
Attorney Fees
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December 2016To disgorge or not to disgorge?
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December 2016Location, location, location: All you really need to know about disgorgement of fees
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December 2016Fee Petitions: Kaiser and beyond
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May 2016Cash flow management for contingent fee firms
- February 2015
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March 2011Look before you leap: A primer on fees allowed when taking over a contingent fee case
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August 2010Attorney fees: Avoiding pitfalls to preserve the right of contribution
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June 2010The DOs and DON’Ts when seeking fees in probate
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October 2009The ethics of fee sharing in tort law cases
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May 2006Casenote: In re: Kohlenbrener v. North Suburban Clinic, Ltd. 356 ILL.APP.3D 414 (1ST DIST. 2005)
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January 1999Attorney fees and the Rules of Professional Conduct
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December 2017Chicago firm’s new client-centric website opens up about fees