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Client Service
 Date  Article  Summary  Author  Type
 5/16/2007   Exceptional Client Service In Law Firms -Tips for rewarding Employees.pdf   As your firm works to change the culture and people's behavior to "clients come first" it is important to reinforce such behaviors. This article provides ideas for After you have ascertained what your clients are telling you - it is time to take action. This article provides tips and suggestions for rewarding and recognizing employees client service behaviors.    John W. Olmstead, MBA, Ph.D, CMC 
 5/16/2007   Exceptional Client Service In Law Firms - Developing Your Client Service Improvement Plan.pdf   After you have ascertained what your clients are telling you - it is time to take action. This article provides tips and suggestions on designing your client service improvement plan.   John W. Olmstead, MBA, Ph.D, CMC 
 5/16/2007   Exceptional Client Service In Law Firms Surveying Your Clients Analizing and Reporting Your Client Survey Results Three Column Reprint.pdf   

Once you have surveyed your clients you must review the results, analyze the data, and come to some conclusions. This article provides a discussion of the techniques of data analysis and some basic things you can do you ascertain what your clients are telling you.

 
 John W. Olmstead, MBA, Ph.D, CMC 
 NEW! 5/16/2007   Exceptional Client Service In Law Firms - Surveying Your Clients.pdf   One of the first steps in accessing client satisfaction is to conduct a client satisfaction survey. This article outline the process to take when surveying your clients.   John W. Olmstead, MBA, Ph.D, CMC 
 2/16/2005   Exceptional Client Service In Law Firms - Tips On Creating A Client Focused Culture.pdf   Exceptional client service is the name of the game. Law firms exist to serve clients. Clients pay your bills and if you don’t perform they will take their business to another firm. A well focused client service strategy can be one of the best marketing investments that a firm can make.   John W. Olmstead, MBA, Ph.D, CMC 

Compensation
 Date  Article  Summary  Author  Type
   Cutting The Pie - Determining Partner Compensation    HTML

Conferences
 Date  Article  Summary  Author  Type
   Legal Administrators Descend On Denver at ALA Conference    HTML
   Seize The Future Conference Helps Lawyers Reinvent Themselves for the 21st Century    HTML

Financial Management
 Date  Article  Summary  Author  Type
   Calculating Overhead to Determine Profitability    HTML

Human Resources
 Date  Article  Summary  Author  Type
   Office Conflict: Are You Coach or Referee?    HTML
   Protecting Your Firm Against Loss Of Key Employees    HTML
   The Organizational Life Blood For Law Firm Profitability    HTML
   Coach Your Firm Staff for Better Performance    HTML
   Seven Communication Styles That Can Improve Law Firm Performance    HTML
   How Effective Law Firm Leadership Practices Can Help You Acquire and Keep Your Clients    HTML
   The Development of Responsive Management / Practicing Successful Management Strategies.    HTML

Marketing
 Date  Article  Summary  Author  Type
 NEW! 9/30/2008   Cross-Selling Legal & Other Professional Services.pdf   Cross-selling can be an effective strategy – but it is not easy and it requires trust, commitment, communication, hard work, dedication, and organizational alignment. My experience and our surveys of our clients and their clients have shown similar results. Cross-selling is talked about a lot and seldom implemented.    John W. Olmstead, MBA, Ph.D, CMC 
   Marketing The Small Law Firm    HTML
   How To Use Secondary Research To Manage Your Firm    HTML
   How to Use Current E-Business Web Sites To Improve Law Firm Profits    HTML
   Image:An Essential Ingredient for Lawyer Success During These Changing Times    HTML
   Year End Client Satisfaction Surveys:Out-Think and Out-Service Your Competitors    HTML
   Developing A Focused Marketing Strategy    HTML

Strategy
 Date  Article  Summary  Author  Type
 11/6/2007   Using A Firm Retreat To Plan For The Next Decade.pdf   

The Firm Retreat is becoming the most widely used forum being used by law firms to facilitate longer range strategic planning.

 
 John W. Olmstead, MBA, Ph.D, CMC 
 2/12/2004   Using A Business Plan- Small Firm PDF Version.pdf   Developing and using business plans in law firms to focus the firm.   John W. Olmstead, MBA, Ph.D, CMC 
   Strategic Planning: It's Easier Than You Think    HTML
   Setting The Stage For Success: Law Firm Implements Behavioral Changes And Reinvents Itself For Another Century In Practice    HTML
   Solo But Not Alone: One Sole-practitioners Story of How He Grew and Leveraged His Law Practice    HTML
   The Making Of a 21st Century Law Firm    HTML
   Are Your Law Firm Management Practices on the Verge of Obsolescence?    HTML
   A Roadmap for Changing Your Firm's Future: The Case of a Struggling Law Firm    HTML
   Nine Compelling Reasons For Lawyers to Practice Global Thinking    HTML
   New Century Lawyer Leadership as Reflected by the Continued MDP Debate    HTML
   Reinventing Your Law Practice: 25 Tips On Implementing Change    HTML
   Redefining the Future With MDP’s: Special ABA Commission Takes a Proactive Approach    HTML
   Trapped In An Insurance Defense Practice? Two Strategic Approaches    HTML
   How to Reinvent Your Law Practice in Order to Prosper in the 21st Century    HTML
   Using A Firm Retreat To Plan For The Next Decade    HTML

Technology
 Date  Article  Summary  Author  Type
   Using Document Managment Software To Manage And Leverage Work Product    HTML
   Planning For Computerized Litigation Document Management    HTML
   Using The Computer As A Marketing Tool    HTML

Work Life Balance
 Date  Article  Summary  Author  Type
 2/14/2008   Women Lawyers Lives In Balance.pdf   

Lawyers from all demographic groups are realizing the importance of balancing their personal and professional lives. Time is becoming more important to people than money.

 

 
 John W. Olmstead, MBA, Ph.D, CMC 
 5/16/2007   Lawyers Lives In Balance Tips for Managing Stress.pdf   A balanced personal and professional life requires a sustained stress management program. This article outlines techniques for dealing with stress.     John W. Olmstead, MBA, Ph.D, CMC 
 5/16/2007   Lawyers Lives In Balance - Developing Your Plan and Tips for Staying Energized and Productive.pdf   A successful law practice is not just about the billable hour - it is also about having a balance personal and professional life. This article outlines a plan and tips for staying energized and productive while achieving a balanced personal and professional life.   John W. Olmstead, MBA, Ph.D, CMC 

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