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by Smokeball Growing your law firm requires careful planning and strategizing. If you started your firm as a solo practitioner, you may already have completed some of these exercises, but now it’s time to think bigger about growth. Each firm will fin...

Check out this quick video tip about conditional formatting in Microsoft Excel from the Affinity Insight course live training session Excel - Readily Readable Data. 

Wanting to embrace new technology at work, but not sure how to start implementing changes? As many in the legal profession know, it’s not always easy to adapt to new technology and programs. Software implementations quickly fall flat if users do not ...

By Charles Coffey, The Bar Plan Mutual Insurance Company Note: This is the final piece of a three-part series from The Bar Plan Mutual Insurance Company. The first part (about legal malpractice insurance) ran Dec. 15, 2021, and the second part (about...

By Jeffrey Schoenberger, senior consultant at Affinity Consulting Group LLCDepending on your firm’s size, you may be one of several people, one of a few, or the only person who know how to do important firm tasks. This compartmentalization has streng...

By Jeffrey S. Krause, Affinity ConsultingMoneyball Analytics is based on the book “Moneyball, The Art of Winning an Unfair Game” by Michael Lewis. The book became the basis for the movie “Moneyball,” which told the story of the 2002 Oakland A’s. Limi...

By Jeffrey Schoenberger, Affinity Consulting As a legal professional, you have encountered your fair share of PDF files and assumably created more than a few. Even in our personal lives, PDFs are ubiquitous: appliance instruction manuals, new car bro...

By Danielle DavisRoe, Affinity Consulting Group Succession planning is all about leaving a legacy. Lawyers who built their firms from the ground up and who contributed blood, sweat, and tears to the firms deserve to leave their marks. Leaving your le...

Supreme Court Rule 4-1.11 is designed to limit potential ethical problems when lawyers move from government service to private practice and vice versa.

By Jeffrey Schoenberger, Affinity ConsultingYou don’t have to be into politics or ceremonial occasions to have seen, understood, and enjoyed the Sen. Bernie Sanders photo and consequent memes from President Joe Biden’s inauguration. If none of those ...

The COVID-19 pandemic altered not only the world’s workforce, but also the particulars of the practice of law. Whether a lawyer is asked to self-quarantine to prevent further spread or if that same lawyer is adapting to working remotely, there are et...

In early 2020, The Missouri Bar launched a new Law Practice Management Center at mobar.org/LPM to help lawyers even better serve their clients. The Law Practice Management Center is organized to follow the life cycle of a law practice, helping lawyer...