Time, Billing & Accounting
Articles
Billing
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Illinois - the third best ‘real billing rate’ nationwide for solos and smalls?
By Matthew Hector,
December
2016
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Billing Practices That Keep Clients Happy
By Kerry M. Lavelle,
May
2022
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Cloud-Based Legal Billing: A Practical Pie-in-the-Sky Concept?
By Chad Beckett,
September
2019
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Five Reasons Why QuickBooks Isn’t Enough
By Steven J. Best,
July
2019
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What You Might Have Forgotten About Billing Clients
By David M. Neff,
January
2019
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Outsourced Bookkeeping-Is Your Firm a Candidate?
By Jennifer Ramovs,
August
2018 -
Billing practices that keep clients happy
By Kerry M. Lavelle,
May
2018 -
By Ed Finkel,
April
2018
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I moved my time & billing and practice management to the cloud
By Bryan M. Sims,
November
2017 -
By Amber Mikula,
May
2017
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By Ed Finkel,
October
2016
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By Kerry M. Lavelle,
October
2016
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Billing—The health of your firm
By Herschenia Aria Brown,
October
2016 -
Best Practices for Billing, Robot Lawyers?
September
2015 -
Alternative Billing Comes to Main Street
By Ed Finkel,
October
2014 -
Timesheets and billing tips
By Kevin J. Stine,
March
2014 -
The billing world is FLAT: Making flat fees work
By William S. Wilson,
April
2013 -
Transitioning to Clio: A personal diary, part 2
By Alan R. Press,
March
2012 -
By Helen W. Gunnarsson,
February
2012
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Transitioning to Clio: A personal diary
By Alan R. Press,
February
2012 -
Changes: How an alternative rock song can provide insight to the evolution of the cost for legal services
By Joseph B. VanFleet,
February
2012 -
Make fiduciary accounting software work for you
By Janet L. Grove,
December
2011 -
Bill for your value, not just your labor
By Dan Breen,
April
2011 -
Now How Much Would You Pay? Avoiding Involuntary Pro Bono
By Karen Erger,
August
2010 -
By Patrick T. Driscoll Jr. and Patricia M. Fallon,
April
2010
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Editor’s column: Current economic downturn requires lawyers to evaluate case acceptance, billing and credit policies
By John T. Phipps,
January
2009 -
Don’t Be Afraid To Be Paid
By Helen W. Gunnarsson,
November
2008 -
Bill4Time Internet-based time and billing software
By Alan R. Press,
August
2008 -
The trouble with hourly billing
By Helen W. Gunnarsson,
June
2007 -
By Karen Erger,
December
2006
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How do you measure success?
By Terry Rosenthal,
December
2005 -
The economics of a business law practice
By Carl R. Draper,
April
2005 -
Attorney billing practices: What is a consumer of legal services to think?
By G.A. Finch,
August
2003 -
Use Financial, Management Reports to Increase Your Profitability
By Paul Sullivan,
May
2003 -
By Nerino J. Petro Jr.,
June
2001
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Jump-Start Your Cash Flow
By Paul Sullivan,
September
2000 -
By Helen Sigman,
January
2000
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Inexpensive time and billing software
By Adrienne W. Albrecht,
November
1999 -
Chicago firm’s new client-centric website opens up about fees
By Matthew Hector,
December
2017
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Collections
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What You Might Have Forgotten About Billing Clients
By David M. Neff,
January
2019
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Outsourced Bookkeeping-Is Your Firm a Candidate?
By Jennifer Ramovs,
August
2018
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From the Newsletters - If you’re using an attorneys lien to collect fees, sweat the details
April
2016
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A primer on perfecting and enforcing attorneys’ liens
By Jennifer Friedland,
March
2016
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Can You Accept Bitcoins as Payment?
By Bailey E. Cunningham,
January
2015
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Ethics corner: A word of caution when accepting credit card payments
By Michael J. Drabant,
July
2014 -
1099s for deadbeat clients?
By Helen W. Gunnarsson,
January
2009 -
Law office management 102: Getting your financial house in order
By Mary A. Corrigan,
May
2007 -
Let divorce practitioners beware: Attorneys must sue clients within one year to recover fees
By Cecilia Hynes Griffin,
October
2005 -
“Miranda Warnings” for debt collection lawsuits
By Patrick E. Ward and Darla A. Foulker,
May
2004
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IOLTA
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Outsourced Bookkeeping-Is Your Firm a Candidate?
By Jennifer Ramovs,
August
2018
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E-mail scams and lawyer trust accounts
December
2016
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Rule change makes it easier to clear ‘mystery money’ from IOLTA accounts
By Matthew Hector,
June
2015
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The sting of IOLTA overdraft alerts
By Matthew Hector,
March
2015
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By Mark S. Mathewson,
September
2014
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New IOLTA requirements effective September 1
By Helen W. Gunnarsson,
September
2011
Law Firm Accounting
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Five Reasons Why QuickBooks Isn’t Enough
By Steven J. Best,
July
2019
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Outsourced Bookkeeping-Is Your Firm a Candidate?
By Jennifer Ramovs,
August
2018
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Law firm financial management: Practical tips and suggestions—Part 2 of a multi-part series
By John W. Olmstead,
May
2018
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By Ed Finkel,
April
2018
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By Jennifer Ramovs,
November
2017
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I moved my time & billing and practice management to the cloud
By Bryan M. Sims,
November
2017 -
Tax basics for the new managing partner of the small firm
By Amy Rupiper,
September
2017 -
Law firm financial management: Practical tips and suggestions—Part 1 of a multi-part series
By John W. Olmstead,
September
2017
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Retainers
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Outsourced Bookkeeping-Is Your Firm a Candidate?
By Jennifer Ramovs,
August
2018
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Five reasons to collect a retainer up front in lieu of getting paid at the closing
By Colleen L. Sahlas,
April
2011
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Engagement Letters, Fees and the Dowling Case
By David A. Berek and Fred R. McMorris,
May
2008
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Supreme Court analyzes retainer agreements
By Willis R. Tribler and Glenn Fischer,
February
2008
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From Here to Retainer Fees
By Helen W. Gunnarsson,
December
2007
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Attorney’s retaining lien, circa 1889
By John B. Kincaid,
March
2006
Attorney Fees
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To disgorge or not to disgorge?
By Zachary Williams,
December
2016
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Location, location, location: All you really need to know about disgorgement of fees
By Rory T. Weiler,
December
2016
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Fee Petitions: Kaiser and beyond
By James J. Ayres,
December
2016
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Cash flow management for contingent fee firms
By Daniel M. Breen,
May
2016
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By Andy Norman,
February
2015
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Look before you leap: A primer on fees allowed when taking over a contingent fee case
By Ronald W. Kalish,
March
2011 -
Attorney fees: Avoiding pitfalls to preserve the right of contribution
By Douglas B. Warlick,
August
2010 -
The DOs and DON’Ts when seeking fees in probate
By Martin W. Siemer,
June
2010 -
The ethics of fee sharing in tort law cases
By Albert E. Durkin,
October
2009 -
Casenote: In re: Kohlenbrener v. North Suburban Clinic, Ltd. 356 ILL.APP.3D 414 (1ST DIST. 2005)
By John W. Foltz,
May
2006 -
Attorney fees and the Rules of Professional Conduct
By Chris E. Freese,
January
1999 -
Chicago firm’s new client-centric website opens up about fees
By Matthew Hector,
December
2017
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