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Office Space – Red Cave Consulting https://redcavelegal.com Red Cave Law Firm Consulting provides subscription-based business management consulting specifically designed for lawyers and law firms. Tue, 30 Jun 2020 15:35:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://redcavelegal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/cropped-Final-Logo-32x32.png Office Space – Red Cave Consulting https://redcavelegal.com 32 32 208994856 Build Your Own Law Firm #4: Office Space https://redcavelegal.com/2018/05/24/start-a-law-firm-office-space/ Thu, 24 May 2018 09:40:51 +0000 //redcavelegal.com/?p=1522 There are many contributing factors to the continually decreasing expense of opening a law firm.  But, one of the chief reasons law firm founders are paying far less than they were even ten years ago has been the rise of office flexibility.

Traditional law firm leases involved hefty price tags and long-term commitments.  Yet, many new law firm business owners felt compelled to access the option, in large part because of a long-standing stigma against non-traditional office spaces, but also because many state ethics codes were hostile to alternatives, due to the maintenance of so-called ‘bona ride office’ rules.  But, in the last decade or so, many state ethics rules have been relaxed or reinterpreted, and both law firm clients and other lawyers have become more accepting of more modern office arrangements.

Even so, the tug of tradition is perhaps strongest in the law, of all professional ventures; and so, lawyers still evince hesitation over where they will work, and whether it will be formal enough.  The truth of the matter is that this is a lawyer problem, more than it is a client problem.  In the majority of cases, your clients won’t care where you work, or whether your dog (or your kids, for that matter) sit under your desk.  Your clients may also actually prefer house calls, when you come to them, rather than forcing them to pay costly parking fees in large cities.

So, it’s kind of cool that, when you’re starting a law firm, where you work is up to.  Whether you pick a home office, or a collaborative space, or an office share — all of those options are workable, when you use the right technology and stay mindful of client confidentiality.

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Version of Events: Cloud Software Means You Never Have to Update https://redcavelegal.com/2017/05/22/cloud-software-means-no-updates/ Mon, 22 May 2017 04:57:32 +0000 //redcavelegal.com/?p=1462 This is version 2.0 of version 2.0.  The planned obsolescence of planned obsolescence. This is the update to end all updates.

No, I’m not holding up a sign, and talking about the end times.  I am, however, addressing software versions.  Even now, I regularly run across law firms that operate different versions of local applications.  So, maybe three different vintages of Adobe Acrobat, with different settings and different costs, all ostensibly meant to do the same thing: manage PDFs.  Now, you might be thinking to yourself, ‘Hey, I have, like, seven different versions of Adobe Acrobat – it’s all good in the hood!’ However, running that many different versions of a software can be problematic, for a variety of reasons.

For one, thing it’s more difficult to train/update employees and troubleshoot existing issues.  Internally, someone trying to a question about how to use a program may be flummoxed by the fact that their process (built in one version) may not work for the questioner (who may be using another version).  That issue can also be exacerbated when clients deal with multiple staffpersons, who themselves are attached to different systems.  From a budget management perspective, your replacement table may be all over the board (meaning you won’t effectuate it — because it’s harder to do), and the different payment requirements for different versions means that it will be impossible for you to flatten your cost allocations.  Law firms are also historically bad at updating local software applications.  Not only does that mean that your systems won’t be working as effectively as they could be, it could also leave you exposed to viruses and nefarious data hacks.

Neither is this problem localized to non-cloud-based technology infrastructures.  There are plenty of law firms running different desktop versions of cloud-based software that they also utilize.  For example, there are a lot of law firms that use Office 365, along with other version of Office, all the way down to Office on XP — which is a dangerous thing to do.

This is all so much easier with cloud-based software.  Let the developers worry about the versions.  All you need to know is that, since the software is cloud-based, your version is always the latest version.  Everyone is working with the same tools, in the same way.  Clients are exposed to the same features.  Your payment schedule is synchronized and predictable.

Now, that’s a version of events you can stick to.

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Liner Notes

The Eagles are alright; but, if you’re really talking about the evolution of the pop country sound, Poco is where it’s at.  They’re one of the most underrated bands of all-time, led by one of the most underrated band leaders of all-time: Richie Furay, who is less than famous.

Here’s a smattering:

Good Feelin’ To Know

Just for You and Me

Pickin’ Up the Pieces

Grand Junction

You Better Think Twice

Man, that is SO good.

Know that I do celebrate Poco’s entire catalogue, and could go oneven though I won’t.

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