A common variation on this theme is an older partner telling a younger associate that said partner is just about ready to retire (5 years away is a common trope), and will pass the firm over to the associate then. Only that never happens and the senior attorney keeps practicing and practicing and practicing . . .

Consistent habits are essential for organization, and that includes those habits that help you to organize your business. 

If potential clients do not have a specific lawyer in mind, but only know the type of legal work they need, your practice area page can become the touchstone for them.  The more viable keywords you can produce, surrounded by high-quality content, the more likely you will be to get served in search results.

In the earl(ier) days of electronic payments, it was essential to buy and utilize an online payments tool. Nowadays, payment software is embedded into everything. You see, primary vendors – like case management software providers, customer relationship management software vendors and accounting software hawkers, etc. – figured out that if they built their own proprietary payments tool, they could keep all the payment processing fees for themselves. 

If you feel like your law firm is out of control, it’s probably because you’re relying on spreadsheets and document files to create some coherence.  But relational databases take most of the work out of this type of organization.