Have you considered how well your firm would stand up to a legal audit? So much of the practice of law involves strict compliance with numerous regulations and these complicated legal regulations are often intertwined with peculiar accounting requirements. Small law firms are particularly vulnerable if they do not set up the necessary tools and procedures to protect the practice on a day-to-day …
Read More »How To Survive A Trust Account Audit
Trust accounts are an integral part of many practices, and unfortunately they are also a common source of disciplinary trouble. Seamlessly incorporating your trust accounting into your day-to-day practice management routine is one of the best ways to protect yourself, your firm, and your clients. Yet many firms choose to maintain separate trust accounting systems – increasing complexity and risk …
Read More »Time for a Technology Audit
A technology audit helps you learn the state of your security, hardware and software, and provide a strategy for the future of your technology in your firm so you stay ahead of the curve.
Read More »Passing the Tech Skills Competency Audit
Casey Flaherty, corporate counsel at Kia Motors America, has gotten a lot of attention recently with a basic tech skills competency audit he administers to outside law firms and the failing grades lawyers at those firms have received. There has always been an ongoing conversation of what basic technology skills lawyers need. The ABA’s Ethics 2020 recommendation that a basic …
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