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M A N A G E M E N T
The Practice Management Committee
continues to meet every month under
the chairmanship of
Philip Joyce.
It is
working on a wide ranging agenda.
Some of the principal items which are
being actively worked on as part of
the agenda include:-
Practice Management Notes:
At the beginning of the year each
practice was supplied free of charge by
the Committee with a binder for a set
of Practice Management Notes. The
Committee has an issue of Practice
Management Notes ready to go out
with each months Gazette for the next
six months. It is important to insert the
notes into your binder as soon as they
arrive. It will be much easier to read
them there than to have to look for
them at a later stage when the need
arises. If you are missing any notes,
contact
Cillian MacDomhnaill
of the
Law Society. There are a limited
number of duplicates available.
If you would like to have any
particular item covered by the Practice
Management Notes; please let the
Committee know. They will only be
too glad to oblige.
Q Mark
The Committee is in the process of
setting up a seminar on hgw practices
may apply for and obtain the Q Mark.
Practitioners will have noticed from
recent issues of the Gazette that a
number of practices have already been
given this recognition. There will be
more news on this in the weeks
to come.
Practice Link
This service is working well. It is
designed to put practitioners who wish
to acquire, sell, merge or retire from
practice in touch with each other.
Further information can be obtained
from Cillian MacDomhnaill of the
Law Society.
Mandatory Continuing Legal
Education
The Committee is preparing a
syllabus for Mandatory Continuing
Legal Education in the area of
Practice Management. Discussions
are presently taking place between the
Education Committee and the
Continuing Legal Education
Committee on this topic. Practice
Management is likely to be the
first area where Mandatory
Continuing Legal Education
will be introduced for the
profession.
Video Library
The Committee is in the process of
establishing a video library on
Practice Management Topics.
Brian
O'Reilly
who is in charge of this
project is finding it difficult to get
videos specifically on legal Practice
Management. Setting up the library is
quite an expensive process and it is
hoped that there will be an official
launch of the service in the very near
future. If anybody has any videos
which they would like to donate to the
Committee for use in the library, the
Committee would be pleased to
accept them.
Office Management Manual
The Committee has begun the
preparation of an office manual. This
will be a manual particular to each
office which will set out how the
office ought to be run. At the moment
the Committee is considering sections
of the Manual dealing with Personnel
and Administration, Office
Procedures, and Client Care. In view
of the size of this project it will
probably be some time before it
comes to maturity.
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