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PERSONAL GROWTH

• Planning for Retirement: It's Never too Early (Bar Bulletin Nov 2011)
• Vacation Lessons: The Importance of Lawyers
• The Exciting and Scary Future of Law Practice
• TRANSITIONS: Deciding Where You Want to Go How to Get There
• Blame It On The Babylonians!
• It's Never Too Early or Too Late to Get the Life you Want
• Laugh Yourself Successful
• Protecting Your Practice by Using Your Time Wisely
• Retirement
• Review of From Good to Great
  
• Ten Simple Tips For Managing Your Time (in Stressful Times)
• Thinking Better in 2009

FINANCIAL

• Planning for Retirement: It's Never too Early (Bar Bulletin Nov 2011)
• Get Paid...Faster than a Speeding Bullet (Bar Bulletin Sept 2011)
• TRANSITIONS: Deciding Where You Want to Go How to Get There
• Collection Forms
• Fiscal Aerobics: Tips to Improve Your Financial Fitness
  
• Partnership Checklist
• The Process of Billing and Collecting
• Where There’s Manure, There’s a Pony: Surviving (and even thriving) in these tough economic times

STARTING A NEW FIRM

• Tips Nobody Gives You for Starting a Solo Practice
• How to Start Solo checklist
• Questions That Must Be Asked When Forming A Firm

MARKETING/PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT

• Legal Career Building Tips (October 2011)
• MSBA’s Top 10 Practice Management Benefits (Aug 2011)
• Marketing Your Law Practice in a Down Economy (Feb 2011)
• Characteristics Part 4: Keeping Clients Happy
• Characteristics Part 5:  Technology
• Deciding to get a website for small firms
• Electronic Marketing
• From Prospects to Clients
  
• How Do I Know This Stuff is Working?: Implementing and Monitoring Your Marketing Plan (Part 2)
• How to Write Your Own Marketing Plan (Part One)
• How You Can Involve Staff in Marketing
• Is It Time To Have a Website?  If Yes, Then Here are Tips to Get Started
  
• Mark Powers marketing article
• Newsletters
• Now What Do We Do? What Should Be On Your Website
  
• Online surveys - Still important to ask "How Are We Doing?"
• Partnership Checklist .
• Planning and What to Include in a Marketing Plan
  
• Resolutions for getting better clients
• Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing
• Tips, Techniques and Tactics to Make the Marketing Plan Work
• Top Twenty Five Tips (Plus one) For Client Relations
• Two Great Cost Effective Marketing Tools
• Using Client Surveys Effectively
• Using Technology to Survey Your Clients
• Welcome To The 21st Century: Web 2.0 and Social Networking

OFFICE MANAGEMENT

• Staying Out Of Trouble: Everyone Needs a Little Reminder (Jul 2011)
• Taming the Beast: Managing your Client's Expectations in a 24-7 World
  How to Choose and Use a Consultant
• Because You Really DON'T Know Everything!!
  
• Characteristics Part 4: Keeping Clients Happy
• Characteristics Part 5:  Technology .
• Choosing Clients Wisely
• Ergonomics
  
• Fiscal Aerobics: Tips to Improve Your Financial Fitness
• Getting the most out of your employees
  
• How and Why to Draft Your Own Procedure Manual
• Look Ma, I'm Blawging
  
• Managing Stress: Your Success Depends On It
• Multi-generational workplace
• NETIQUETTE – What is it and why should you care?
• Personnel Issues for the Tech Age .
• Personnel Issues: Not Just for Large Firms
• Policies and Procedures for E-Mail Usage in Your Office
  
• Protecting Your Practice by Using Your Time Wisely
• Reprint of Michael Bryant Article on how to fire
• Resolutions for getting better clients
• Risk Management Just Another Name for Good Office Management
• Rules and Procedures for E-mail
• Rules to Managing Your Client Expectations
• Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing
• Staffing a Small Law Office
  
• Spring Cleaning: Collecting Old A/R
• Telecommuting
• Ten Simple Tips For Managing Your Time (in Stressful Times)
  
• What I Learned On My Summer Vacation During the Collaspe of the American Financial System, Almost Running Over Deer in the Road and Avoiding an Attack By a Rattlesnake
  
• Welcome To The 21st Century: Web 2.0 and Social Networking
• What to Include in an Office Manual
• Writing a Procedure Manual - Tips for Solo Conference

DISASTER PLANNING RESOURCES

• Disaster Planning Info Packet (members only)
• Disaster Planning: Protecting Your Firm, Your Clients and Your Family
• Heckman Consulting: Disaster Recovery for Small and Medium Firms
• Planning for Disaster

CHARACTERISTICS OF AN EFFICIENT PRACTICE

• Choosing Clients Wisely
  
• Two Great Cost Effective Marketing Tools
• Clients: It's All About Them
  
• Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing
• Client Intake Form
• How to Write Your Own Marketing Plan Part 1
• How to Write Your Own Marketing Plan Part 2
• Financial Related Matters
• Personnel
• Technology Tips to Make Your Practice More Efficient

TECH STUFF

• How to Secure Your Home Network (Nov. 2011)
• Grasping, Employing QR Codes (Oct. 2011) Also: Video Tutorial
• Google and World Domination (Aug. 2011)
• The Basics of Twitter (Aug. 2011)
• Protecting Your Stuff: Security for your Lapton and Data (Feb. 2011)
• ABA TechShow 2010: The Bling is Gone but the Hard Work Is Ahead
• There are no Luddites in Blizzards: Or What I Learned During Snowmageddon
• Cheap and Cool: Inexpensive Ways Solos and Small Firms Can Compete with Boys (and Girls) with Big Toys
• Using Technology to Survey Your Clients
  
• Beware the Blogosphere
• Rules to Manage Client Expectations
• Improving Your Outlook: PowerPoint | PDF Document
• Caution: Phishing Can Be Dangerous to Your Practice
  
• Revisiting Websites for Solo and Small Firms
  
• Blawgs for the Solo and Small Firm
  
• Everything Old is New Again: Looking at Your Office Technology
  
• Using Google Effectively to Search for Hard to Find Information
  
• Of Blogs, Bloggers and Blawgs
  
• www.sololawfirm.com - Common Mistakes to Avoid when Starting, Maintaining or Improving Your Website
  
• Is It Time To Have a Website? If Yes, Then Here are Tips to Get Started
  
• Personnel Issues in the Technology Age
  
• Policies and Procedures for E-Mail Usage in Your Office
  
• NETIQUETTE – What is it and why should you care?
  

TRAVEL

• Like Law Practice, Travel Most Successful with Good Planning (June 2011)
• On The Road with Apps
• Summer Travel Websites
• Precautions for Using the Internet for Travel Help
• Tips for Great Summer Vacation
• Books and Sites for Travel
• Travel Tips to Keep You Healthy, Wealthy and Wise
• On the Road Again

Call Pat Yevics, MSBA's Law Office Management Administrator at (410) 685-7878 x3038, or e-mail--pyevics@msba.org-- for information.