Practice Management


Artificial Intelligence

Generative artificial intelligence: Basic terminology and concepts

Podcast: How to Enhance Your Legal Services With Microsoft Copilot

Webinar: Combatting deepfakes: Safeguarding your law firm's reputation

 

Webinar: The Rise of AI in the Legal Profession

 

Podcast: How Lawyers Can Enhance Legal Services and Stay Ahead in the Industry with AI

Podcast: AI and ChatGPT’s Impacts on the Legal Profession

 

Building A Practice

Podcast: Community Table: 2024 Year End: What’s Your Business Plan for 2025?

Podcast: Building a Law Firm from Scratch

Podcast: Casting Your Vision and Leading Your Firm

Podcast: SHOCKING Insights from Clio’s 2024 Legal Trends Report

Podcast: Does My Website Suck? | Law Firm Website Teardown

Podcast: Engagement for Law Firm Leadership: Get the Most From Your Team

Webinar: Adapting to Change: Profitability in the Digital Age

 

Firms in the digital age: Streamlining operations for enhanced efficiency

Office Sharing: Yours, Mine, and Ours

Ethical Considerations of Naming a Firm

Professional Employer Organizations and Law Firms: A Beneficial Partnership

Cultivate innovation mindsets to build your future

Webinar: Innovative Mindsets – Build Your Future Practice Today

 

Webinar: Creating a Practice You Deserve

 

Webinar: How to Run a Lean Law Firm

 

Conflicts of Interest

Conflict of Interest Flowchart

How to Identify and Avoid Conflicts of Interest

 

Human Resources

PODCAST: How to Promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Legal Workplaces

Michigan Bar Journal: Reducing attrition and increasing productivity by tapping into employee discretionary effort: Part II

Michigan Bar JournalReducing attrition and increasing productivity by tapping into employee discretionary effort: Part I

Michigan Bar Journal: The Great Resignation and its impact on law firms: Part I

Michigan Bar Journal: The Great Resignation and its impact on law firms: Part II

Webinar: Motivating and Maintaining During The Great Resignation

 

Insurance

Lawyers Professional Liability Insurance Glossary

Podcast: How to Dissect and Understand Your Cyber Insurance Policy

Be Selective When Choosing an Insurance Carrier

Lawyers Professional Liability Insurance: Understanding Coverage Limits

Avoiding Gaps in Lawyers Professional Liability Insurance Coverage

Cyber Liability Insurance Basics

Pay more, get less: A cyberinsurance nightmare for law firms

Podcast: Legal Malpractice Risk Control in the COVID Era

ABA Resources

State by State List of Insurance Carriers

Standing Committee of Lawyers’ Professional Liability

Risk Management Resources

 

Marketing

Podcast: The Current State of Legal Blogging

Podcast: LinkedIn Mastery: Grow Your Law Firm NOW!

Podcast: Simple Marketing Hacks Lawyers Swear By

Podcast: 10 ESSENTIAL Digital Marketing Tools for Lawyers (MUST HAVE!)

Podcast: Local SEO 2024: How to Rank AND Expand Your Law Firm

Podcast: Get Comfortable, Get Busy: Networking And Media Relations, Yes. You. Can.

Strategies for cost-effective client acquisition (Part I)

Strategies for cost-effective client acquisition (Part II)

Practice Building (Part 1)
Getting a Handle on Marketing

Practice Building (Part 2)
Making the Most of Business Development

Grow Your Practice and Career with a Consistent, Dynamic, Equality-Based Brand

Google My Business Performance Tracking Guide

Business Development and Marketing During and After COVID-19

An Insider’s Strategy for Planning the Perfect Online Event

Podcast: Lunch Hour Legal Marketing
A Monthly podcast packed with tips and tricks for attracting more clients and business to your legal practice.

 

Policies & Procedures

Office Procedures Manual

Law Office Policies, Procedures, and Operations Manual, Seventh Edition Discounted for SBM members

 

Records Management

Record Retention & Destruction

A Sound Record Retention Policy

Record Retention Kit
A compilation of articles and ethics opinions from the State Bar of Michigan's Standing Committees on Professional and Judicial Ethics concerning a lawyer's duty to safe keep the property of clients and third parties.

How to Handle Requests for Copies

Going Digital: A Law Firm Road Map (Part 1)

Going Digital: A Law Firm Road Map (Part 2)

 

Transitioning a Law Firm

SBM Ethics Guidebook: Changing Firms-Ethical Responsibilities for Lawyers and Law Firms

How to value a law practice post-2020 and succession planning options for lawyers to consider (Part 1 of 2)

How to value a law practice post-2020 and succession planning options for lawyers to consider (Part 2 of 2)

Webinar: Successful Succession: How to Value, Sell & Purchase a Law Firm in a Post-Pandemic World.