Legal Office System: Maximizing Efficiency

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Law Practice Management

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As your legal practice evolves and grows with more clients, it is important, and rather necessary, to implement efficient and effective office management systems so you may best serve your clients and maintain a healthy work and life balance. Attend this program and learn the best practices on how to: automate, and also personalize, your client intake; process a case through your office and utilize staff time; create and maintain boundaries to better serve your clients and yourself; use technology within your office systems; create forms; and establish roles within the office and end the attorney/client relationship.

Attorneys from all levels of experience and practice areas who are looking to increase efficiency and create or improve intra-office case processing systems are encouraged to attend this program.

Learning Objectives:

  • Delineate how to automate, and also personalize, client intake
  • Understand how to process a case through your office and utilize staff time
  • Investigate creating and maintaining boundaries, allowing you to serve clients better and live your best life
  • Explore the use of technology within office systems
  • Learn how to create a repeat form
  • Discuss case closure

About the Presenters

Andrea McGinn, Esq.

The Law Shop Iowa

Practice Area: Family Law

Andrea McGinn is a lawyer, legal innovator, and consultant. She graduated from Drake University Law School in 2015 after enjoying extensive experience as a student attorney in the Drake Children’s Rights Clinic. Andrea built her own solo practice out of law school prior to partnering up with AJ Skogerson to co-found The Law Shop Iowa. Andrea’s drive for positive change in the world is revealed in the way The Law Shop strives to improve both access to justice and the personal well-being of other professionals working within the judicial system.Andrea is Past Chair of the Iowa State Bar Association Family ...

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AJ Skogerson, Esq.

The Law Shop Iowa

Practice Area: Family & Matrimonial

AJ Skogerson is a lawyer, content creator, and consultant. A 2002 Creighton University School of Law graduate, AJ has worked in various practice areas, always including a strong emphasis on family law. She now jokes about her significant experience doing all the “ate’s” in family law: communicate, advocate, negotiate, facilitate, mediate, litigate, collaborate, educate, and so on. Today, AJ is particularly passionate about collaborative practice, working closely with financial and mental health professionals on teams to help families in divorce.AJ is licensed to practice law in the States of Iowa and Idaho. AJ currently serves as Secretary of the Board ...

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