Practical Law Office Management - Softcover

Roper, Brent

Softcover

ISBN 10: 141802970X ISBN 13: 9781418029708

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2006

Synopsis

Practical Law Office Management, third edition focuses on law office management from a practical standpoint. Designed for the paralegal student interested in day-to-day law office management topics, this text focuses on client relations and communication skills; legal fees, timekeeping, and billing, client trust funds and law office accounting; calendaring, docket control, and case management; legal marketing; and file and law library management. This revised edition offers an extended focus on technology, including a full demonstration of Thomson's ProLaw software and in-depth software tutorials. It includes up-to-date charts and graphs that present material in an easy-to-understand context. Each chapter now includes thought-provoking questions, and expanded and interesting case studies that deal with unique facts specific to practicing paralegals appear after most chapters. To expand the technology focus of the text, Excel exercises appear in the timekeeping and billing and trust account chapters. In addition, this revised text has a strong ethics focus throughout, with ethics-related cases included at the end of nearly every chapter.

About this title

About the Author

Brent Roper has a J.D., and a M.B.A. from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. Over the pat 15 years he has published a number of textbooks and articles on law office computing and law office management.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 141802970X
• ISBN 13: 9781418029708
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 608