May 2015

Statements for legal services are a critical part of law office operations, yet often insufficient attention is given to the appearance and formatting of legal billing. Bills are an important communication with clients that can impact the clients’ view of the law firm and its lawyers.

In my column Your Statement for Legal Services is

Most lawyers hate filling out timesheets to record their billable time. Lawyers are also not perfect at Time sheetaccomplishing this, leading every company with a time and billing product to tout how much money can be made if only every bit of “lost” time was recorded. But the practice of recording time by hand on paper

One way to improve your client’s experience with your law practice and indirectly help with marketing is to Value Add determine how you can provide added value to the client in a way that doesn’t use the lawyer’s billable time. This does NOT mean a refrigerator magnet with the law firm’s phone number and website.

How to