Risk Management Survival Tools for Law Firms

by Davis, Anthony E.; Jarvis, Peter R.

• ISBN13: 9781590318539
• ISBN10: 1590318536
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Package
• Copyright: 2008-03-18
• Publisher: American Bar Association

Summary

Risk Management: Survival Tools for Law Firms helps you to establish solid policies, procedures, and systems to minimize your firm's risk. This completely updated and revised edition provides a complete overview of risk management and offers a practical approach to evaluating the state of risk management within your firm.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
About the Authors	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Law Firm Management in a Hostile Environment-A Guide to Risk Management	p. 1
What Is "Risk Management" (or "Loss Prevention") Anyway?	p. 3
Risk	p. 3
Risk Management	p. 4
Loss Prevention	p. 4
Case Study-How Risk Management Could Have Helped Kaye, Scholer	p. 4
The Main Elements of Risk Management for Lawyers	p. 10
The Role of Law Firm Audits Generally and Self-Audits Particularly	p. 25
The Fundamental Purpose-The Prophylactic Audit	p. 25
Additional Uses for Law Firm Audits	p. 26
Why Self-Audits?	p. 29
What Is a Self-Audit?	p. 31
What Is Involved in Administering a Self-Audit?	p. 31
What Can a Self-Audit Accomplish?	p. 32
When Not to Do It Yourself	p. 33
How to Conduct a Self-Audit	p. 35
Selecting the Partner or Administrator to Conduct the Audit	p. 35
Deciding on the Scope and Timing of the Audit	p. 35
Distributing and Completing Questionnaires	p. 43
Distributing Answer and Analysis Sheets and Conducting Review Sessions	p. 43
Preparing a Report	p. 44
Implementing the Report Recommendations	p. 45
Follow-Up and Implementation	p. 47
Internally or Externally Directed Reforms	p. 47
The Elements of Effective Implementation	p. 48
Timing and Implementation	p. 50
What Will an Integrated Risk Management Program Look Like?	p. 50
A Tool, Not a Pancea	p. 50
Bibliography	p. 52
Quality/In Control (QUIC) Survey for Law Firms Questionnaires	p. 53
Management Structure Questionnaire	p. 57
Risk Management Oversight Questionnaire	p. 59
New Client/Matter Intake Questionnaire	p. 65
Client Relations Questionnaire	p. 73
Docket (i.e., Tickler/Critical Date Reminder) and Calendar Systems Questionnaire	p. 77
Practice and Human Resource Management Questionnaire	p. 81
Trust Accounts Questionnaire	p. 87
Disaster Recovery Planning Questionnaire	p. 89
Quality/In Control (QUIC) Survey for Law Firms Answer and Analysis ("Crib") Sheets	p. 93
Management Structure Questionnaire	p. 95
Risk Management Oversight Questionnaire	p. 99
New Client/Matter Intake Questionnaire	p. 105
Client Relations Questionnaire	p. 117
Docket (i.e., Tickler/Critical Date Reminder) and Calendar Systems Questionnaire	p. 123
Practice and Human Resource Management Questionnaire	p. 129
Trust Accounts Questionnaire	p. 137
Disaster Recovery Planning Questionnaire	p. 141
Index	p. 149
About the CD	p. 157
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