Legal Expense Management -- Working Toward Solutions

by Sheila Okabayashi.  Sheila is President and Founder of Integrated Solution Design and is a member of NorCalPROS and the Orange County chapter of SoCalPROS.

We want to hear your voice!

http://www.legalexpensesurvey.com/

In Expense Reduction Analyst's efforts to find expense reduction solutions for the legal community, ERA Los Angeles and Orange County's managing director Marylou Garcia (and our newest member of SoCalPROS-OC) has sponsored research to hear from you, the professionals in the legal market that deal wtih expense and budget management issues, to share with us your insights, experience, challenges, and solutions that are specific to your culture, practice areas, and industry.
 
Let your voice be heard by responding to this survey, which only takes about 5 minutes to complete. Your input is vital. Please do not delay -- the survey is open through midnight (PST) February 21st. Go to: http://www.legalexpensesurvey.com/.
 
After analyzing the data, the resulting white paper compiled and analyzed by Integrated Solution Design will be released to the legal community on March 1st. Survey participants will be among the first to receive it!

Are you what your office eats? And is that a good thing…

by Laura Merrill, First Legal Network Account Executive, SoCalPro 2011 Secretary

A couple of weeks ago, I was sitting in my office thinking about what great new First Legal product or service to write about for this month’s SoCalPro’s BLOG entry. Let’s be honest, most BLOG Entries, while a great a opportunity to highlight a member’s service, are rarely written in a true ‘blog’ spirit; that is, a conversational topic that sparks further debate, discovery, discussion and general comments…So while I racked my brain on what topic might spark a discussion, at the same time not include religion, politics or your personal Super Bowl picks for who will run the coolest commercial (I’m routing for Budweiser over the GoDaddy girl)…I received the following email notification:

“It’s that time of year to join the First Legal O.C. “Biggest-Loser” Competition”

And there it was, my topic for this month’s Blog Entry…