CHEYENNE – The Wyoming State Bar today announced that 23 people have been recommended for admission to practice law in Wyoming. PLEASE NOTE: The list below reflects those applicants who have satisfied ALL requirements for admission. The Wyoming Supreme Court and the Wyoming State Bar cannot release results until ALL requirements are met (i.e. MPRE scores received, Character & Fitness checks are complete). The Wyoming State Bar and the Wyoming Supreme Court would like to congratulate these future members of the Wyoming State Bar.  The following people are being recommended fo ..read more

Client reviews are fantastic marketing tools for any business, including law firms.  Testimonials drive conversion because it is a window into how lawyers have had success with other clients.  Law firms place testimonials on their websites and try to get as many client reviews as they can on directory profiles and social media profiles.  It’s really important, but can also be kind of a slog.  Many people won’t respond, the process can be hard to manage without software and sometimes reviews don’t get published.  Not that you shouldn’t do it, but it’s kind of a pain. Yo ..read more

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CHEYENNE–The Wyoming Supreme Court has suspended James J. O’Brien, III, a lawyer from San Antonio, Texas, from the practice of law in Wyoming for failing to comply with the Rules of the Wyoming Supreme Court for Continuing Legal Education. Rule 4 of the Rules of the Wyoming State Board of Continuing Legal Education requires each active attorney to complete a minimum of 15 hours of continuing legal education, including two hours of legal ethics, in each calendar year. Rule 10(a) requires attorneys who have failed to comply with Rule 4 to pay a $300 delinquency fee by March 1st. Rule 10(c) requi ..read more

Law firms have traditionally extended credit to clients by billing in arrears.  This is, in fact, the most common way for law firms using an hourly billing model to invoice their clients.  That’s why you hear advice like: Make sure to get the most you possibly can upfront/Charge the most significant retainer you can. But let’s be honest.  That’s not a client-facing model.  That works for law firms, sure.  But if I’m a legal consumer, I’m not into paying a lot of money right away before my service provider (in this case, the law firm) has even proven itself.  It’s ..read more

Every interaction a law firm has with a client is a marketing opportunity–a chance to cement your value as a service provider.  There’s actually no better place to solidify that relationship than through your invoicing.  It’s a continuous, repetitive option for reminding your client of what you’ve done for them.  It places your value proposition in stark relief. And yet, many law firms squander this opportunity by using unrecognizable codes and short-form narratives in their billing.  Instead of trying to rush your bills out the door, craft them instead.  Utilize billi ..read more

Smart law firms everywhere are adopting workflows for a whole host of reasons: to promote efficiency, to reduce malpractice risk and to more effectively manage remote employees.  It’s probably long overdue, honestly.  But as attorneys have embraced workflow management, some have discovered that their existing tools are lacking for the purpose. So, if your case management software or your productivity software isn’t packing the punch you hoped in terms of task management, there are a lot of standalone tools that might be a better fit for you, including: Notion, Trello, Asana and Taska ..read more

Law firms tend to let their hardware run . . . and run . . . and run – until it can’t run no more.  Most often law firm hardware breaks down, wheezing.  Now I don’t want to say that attorneys are cheap, so let’s call them “thrifty” instead.  The fact of the matter is that, the longer you run old hardware, the more susceptible you are to data security issues, spiraling repair costs and efficiency downgrades.  It actually makes more sense (and, it’s cheaper for a whole host of reasons) to replace your hardware more often and on a regular schedule – and, this is a lot easier ..read more

In the last piece in this short series we discussed how important it is for law firms to be focused on engaging potential clients.  That’s how you bait the hook, but there’s still the matter of reeling in those leads – and, to accomplish that, you’ll need a way for clients, following an initial engagement, to take a next step in order to advance the process.  And, that’s where many law firms fall down because they haven’t set up any kind of system and don’t know what the next step is themselves, or because they don’t have a simple and convenient option for clients to move the ball fo ..read more

Hiring is rough right now.  It’s got law firms everywhere rethinking how and why they hire. One trend that is manifesting is that attorneys are beginning to expand their vision of who can and should be hired by a law firm by looking at non-traditional roles within the law firm. For the most part, law firms have hired for three roles: lawyers, paralegals and administrative staff.  But as law firms begin to reformulate how they operate, that has opened up roles for human resource managers, chief operating officers, chief financial officers, sales directors, intake specialists, customer ..read more