accounting

Do You Trim Your Own Time?

July 30, 2010

Regardless of how you track your time, make sure it is accurate. Around these parts, we use Freshbooks for tracking our time in cases, and it works great for the most part. But even when your time is accurate, are you cutting your own time?

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What I Use to Manage My Practice [Update 2]

July 20, 2010

I first talked about the tools I use to manage my law practice in April 2008. I updated the list of my practice software and tools in February 2009, and it seems like a good time to do so again. Since the last update, my firm has gained one attorney employee and three independent contractors, [...]

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Online Budgeting for Young Lawyers

January 13, 2010

No one taught me to budget in law school. The financial aid folks said little more than “good luck paying off your $70,000 in debt,” and I was on my way. Years later, done with law school and thankfully bringing in some income, I was at a total loss as to how to start paying [...]

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What I use to manage my practice

April 16, 2008

Note new post: What I use to manage my practice (update), February 6, 2009 As most readers of this blog know, I am in a constant search to find the “best” way to manage my practice. As everyone knows, there is no “best” way to manage a solo or small law practice, but there is [...]

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My timekeeping and accounting solution

September 20, 2007

My wife commented yesterday that it has been a long time since she heard me complaining about my timekeeping and accounting software. It’s true. I hadn’t realized how much less frustration I have since I ditched Time Matters and Billing Matters Plus for good. Instead, I am using a combination of spreadsheets and simple but [...]

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