a survival guide for legal practice managers.

Lawyer burnout can be costly for law firms and the individuals who experience it. Here, we discuss five ways that your law firm can use technology to alleviate some of these issues and minimize stress.

Lawyers’ mental health has only recently become a priority in many law firms. Meanwhile, lawyers have experienced some of the highest rates of stress, depression, anxiety, and substance abuse disorders compared to other professions.

Creating a strategy or new year resolution is just the first step. What comes next is far more important. A series of changes are made, hopefully after consultation with and buy-in from stakeholders, including your team.

Australia and the world currently face a level of uncertainty and challenge which has not been experienced for decades. At a time of such multi-faceted personal and financial challenges, it can become even more difficult to maintain a focus on saving for the life you envisage for yourself and your family in retirement.

All too often, law firm technology projects fail to launch, grind to a standstill, or run over budget. Why does this happen time and again? You might be missing a critical component that can help your firm cross the finish line when adopting new tech: a project champion.

Cloud solutions facilitate law firms to focus on achieving their business goals, with performance at the core.  A cost-effective solution, the Cloud leverages security, mobility, flexibility, agility, and scalability combined with existing processes, to raise business performance to a new level.

The pandemic has changed employee expectations of their working life. A recent Microsoft survey confirmed that employees want the best of both worlds: 73% want flexible remote work options to continue; at the same time 67 percent are craving more in-person time with their teams.

You hear it over and over: “Just do more with less.”  Somehow you and your department are supposed to do more work, with fewer resources. And the reward if you succeed: do even more—with even less. How are you supposed to do that? Well, that’s up to you to figure out. That’s not their problem. That’s your problem.

As we come out the back of the latest round of Covid restrictions and start to deal with the challenges of getting co-workers back into the office, and getting clients into face-to-face meetings, I start to reflect on the past two years and how much my life has changed, and how much the conversations I am having have changed.