3 Quick Tips For Better Billing For Law Firms
Three Tips for Better Billing
Looking to improve your firm’s time recording & billing?
Here are 3 quick steps to make a change:
1. Tech Challenge – Everyone learns at different speeds, yet comfort with technology impacts profitability.
Action – 2-3 times a year, send a checklist, with key elements of your CMS. Fee earners can tick the area they would like to refresh. It also prompts anyone out of the habit, of using certain parts.
2. Bottom Line – The impact of forgetting to record even one unit of time, or double discounting (not recording the time & later writing-off time as well), is underestimated.
Action – A few times a year, send out a gentle reminder, with the calculation of missing a unit or two, over the working year. It amounts to thousands.
3. Money Mindset – Many are unaware of the influence of their beliefs, around charging certain types of clients, or for certain types of work, or discomfort with the possibility of complaints, or their own beliefs on what is valuable for spending, has on generating or charging for work. Focusing solely on technology or time skills, may have a limited lasting effect.
Action – Use meetings to create awareness, share the elephant in the room, & consider offering training.
Which tip feels most useful?
If you want to know more, please get in touch.
Simona
About Simona Hamblet
Simona is a specialist coach & hypnotherapist, working with lawyers & helping them create the firms & lives that they want. Simona also has over 20 years of experience as an employment solicitor & partner in a dual-office law firm (focusing on staff development & business growth). Simona works with partners, law firm owners, or other lawyers, who want to fall back in love with their firms again. Helping partners have more time, including dedicated space for business development, strengthen their teams, quieten the inner critic, manage a thriving firm, and have more playtime! Simona is a qualified coach, NLP practitioner, and hypnotherapist working with lawyers for the past six years. Simona also has over 20 years of experience as an employment solicitor & partner in a dual-office law firm (focusing on staff development & business growth).