The stats on law firm intake are pretty damning.  64% of voicemails left for law firms by leads are never returned.  Only 1 in 3 phone calls for law firms are picked up live.  It takes an average of 8 emails to schedule an appointment with a law firm.  Those aren’t the sort of numbers you want to see in an economy driven by consumer convenience.

As is clear by now, more efficient law firms make more money than inefficient ones.  The more work you can get through, the more money you make.  Of course, efficiency does not build up out of thin air; you need to work for it. And, the best step to take, in terms of building law firm efficiency is to map out everything you do. 

The good news is that it’s not going to cost you anything, and will take less than 5 minutes to set up.

With most law firms shifting to cloud-based tools, you can effectively integrate multiple calendars — even linking your personal and professional calendars, if you’d like, including with appropriate color coding for different events.

And, this isn’t about Google or Microsoft or Amazon’s server architecture going down in flames — if that happens, we’ve all got real problems — it’s more about creating an alternate pathway to your data.  What if you need a particular file when your document servers are offline for maintenance?  What if there’s an extended power outage, and you can’t get to your files on the web?

If you want the best people to work for your law firm, take advantage of the current opportunity to intentionally craft the distributed workforce you want.

A lot of those networking opportunities have moved online, and lawyers can now take advantage of broader marketing options via the web. 

In order to give yourself another bite at the apple for leads who don’t convert the first time, you need to be able to develop a remarketing strategy. 

More than 60% of law firm do not return voicemails. It takes an average of 8 emails to schedule an appointment with an attorney.

Email drives business; yet, it also drives most of us crazy. If this is the year you want to take control of your email, here are some steps you can take.