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This document outlines the procedures and structures of a successful law office. It discusses key factors like dedicated professionals, effective organization, and efficient procedures. It also describes different types of legal practices like sole proprietorships, partnerships, and corporate legal departments. Finally, it outlines the roles of various legal professionals within a law office including lawyers, paralegals, legal assistants, clerks, and administrators.

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Legal Office Procedures 1

This document outlines the procedures and structures of a successful law office. It discusses key factors like dedicated professionals, effective organization, and efficient procedures. It also describes different types of legal practices like sole proprietorships, partnerships, and corporate legal departments. Finally, it outlines the roles of various legal professionals within a law office including lawyers, paralegals, legal assistants, clerks, and administrators.

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LEGAL OFFICE

PROCEDURES
 Characteristics of successful Law Office:

 1. Serves its clients effectively and efficiently;

 2. Upholds ethical standards and brings credit to the


legal profession; and

 3. Provides professional satisfaction and a reasonable


economic reward for its owners, managers and
employees.
 Key factors for a successful Law Office

 1. dedicated and qualified professionals

 2. effective law office organizations

 3. sound attorney-client relationships; and

 4. efficient law office procedures.


 Types of Attorney practice:
 1. Sole proprietorship –either practicing in solo or
with an associate lawyers.

 2. Law Partnership – as few as two or three partners.


Decision making is collegial. There are also larger
partnerships wherein a managing partner is
appointed.

 3. General Professional Partnership


 Corporate Legal Department – one of the many
departments in a non-legal corporation. Outside
legal counsels usually represents a corporation
from suits however the following are the
functions of the legal department:
 1. responding to discovery request
 2. coordinating litigation matters with outside counsel.
 3. reviewing (and questioning) bills presented by the
outside counsel; and,
 4. advising management on ways to avoid future lawsuits.
 5. Monitor developments in legislation and coordinates
corporation’s lobbying efforts.
 General counsel- corporation’s lawyer. He can
be a head of the legal department or a retained
outside counsel.
 Legal assistants performs a wide variety of
responsibilities. The Key role of them is preparing
and maintaining the official documents and
records of the corportion, including the following:
 A. Corporate by-laws
 B. minutes of director’s meetings
 C. resolutions adopted by the board of directors
 D. stock registration statements
 E. shareholder records
 F. notices of shareholder meetings
 G. proxy statements
 H. stock option plans
 Paralegals and legal secretaries are part of the
legal team.

 Larger offices- legal team includes law clerks,


legal librarians, paralegal managers.

 Large scale litigation- senior firm partner,


partners and associates.
 Members of a large firm includes:
 1. Law Office managers- generally supervise the
office support staff (receptionists, secretaries, word
processors, file clerks and etc.)

 2. Legal administrators assumes even more


responsibilities, such as taking on a role similar to a
managing partner, other than managing the firm’s
practice of law.
 THE END.

 SEE YOU IN OUR NEXT CLASS.

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