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Law Office Management Assistance Service - Program Description
Mission
Services
History
Goals
About Your PMAs
Questions on Law Office Management?
MISSION
Recognizing that many practicing lawyers lack fundamental training in business and practice management principles, the Law Office Management Assistance Service (LOMAS), through an experienced staff of practice management advisors, provides advice, assistance and support to members of The Florida Bar through a variety of services. Focused on management principles such as trust accounting rules, docket control, prevention of client conflicts, and the integration of new technology into the law practice, LOMAS strives to help attorneys avoid malpractice claims and grievances through the application of sound business processes, best practices, and exists to provide Florida attorneys with this type of assistance.
SERVICES
LOMAS promotes effective management techniques for both lawyer and support staff in a manner flexible enough to respond to the immediate demands of today's ever-changing law office environment. Information is shared through telephone and email conversations, on demand, on-line CLE seminars focusing on law office management, requested items from our collection of Law Office Management reference materials, publication of news articles, and low-cost office consultations. LOMAS has an active role in The Florida Bar's grievance process, helping attorneys experiencing law office management problems. Telephone and email queries are free. Video consultations are fee-based and provide a detailed analysis of firm management policy, procedures and issues.
HISTORY
Established in 1979, LOMAS is the longest continuously-running state-bar sponsored program in the United States, and has served as the model for similar law office management assistance programs throughout North America. Stemming from a special committee appointed to design an innovative program to provide law office management education to Florida lawyers, The Florida Bar’s LOMAS program has grown to assist thousands of attorneys and legal staff members each year. Fielding thousands or emails and telephone calls annually, its services have expanded to include technology assistance, marketing, video CLE production, and a variety of other projects, each designed to serve Bar members and their support staff.
GOALS
LOMAS has several goals supporting the principal objective of educating attorneys and improving their law office management function:
•To investigate, accumulate, and evaluate law office management information and technologies.
•To publish and distribute, information and techniques relating to law office management.
•To increase awareness of professional liability and risk management procedures.
•To anticipate trends and problems in law office management and to advise The Florida Bar regarding them.
ABOUT YOUR PMAs
Judith Equels LOMAS Director | Jerry Sullenberger Practice Management Advisor |
QUESTIONS ON LAW OFFICE MANAGEMENT?
The Florida Bar's Law Office Management Assistance Service can offer assistance to attorneys in many subject areas. The following list is intended only to illustrate general categories of information we work with and supply help on. Each request for information from a Bar member is researched and responded to individually.
| Accounting Advertising Billing Budgets Calendaring and Docket Control Capitalization Case Management Clerks Client Relations Closing Files Closing Practices Collections Compensation Systems Conflicts of Interest Consultants Cost Control Costs Advanced Dissolutions Document Assembly Drugs in the Workplace Electronic Mail Employee Agreements Employee Benefits Entity Types Fax Fees & Fee Agreements File Management Financial Analysis Forms, Administrative and Office General Office Management Governance Growth Hardware Insurance Job Descriptions Job Sharing Legal Administrators Legal Assistants Legal Research Liability Libraries Litigation Support | Marketing Office Design Office Equipment Outsourcing Overhead Overtime Paralegals Part-time Employment Partnership Criteria Partnership Relations Performance Evaluation Systems Personnel Policies Planning Profitability Record Keeping and Retention Records Information Management (RIM) Recruiting Relocation Research Retirement Risk Management Salaries Scanning Security Small Firms Social Media Software Solo Practitioners Space Planning Support Staff Taxes Technology Telephones Temporaries Time-Keeping Time Management Training Systems Trust Accounts Value Billing Virtual law Offices Websites |
[Revised: 01-04-2013]
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