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GAZETTE

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1995

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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