More help with your technology questions is on the way. This summer, the State Bar will launch the Law Office Management Assistance Program (LOMAP), which will provide information and support related to diverse areas of law office management - including technology, business planning, personnel, facilities and operations management, and more.
Vol. 78, No. 4, April
2005
Introducing LOMAP: A Source for Law Practice Management
Guidance
More help with your technology questions is on the way. This summer,
the State Bar will launch the Law Office Management Assistance Program
(LOMAP), which will provide information and support related to diverse
areas of law office management - including technology, business
planning, personnel, facilities and operations management, and more.
LOMAP is geared primarily to attorneys in solo practice and small
firms but aims to help attorneys in various types of practice. For
instance, "We're working with government lawyers," says Wausau attorney
William Hess, chair of the LOMAP Committee. "They're being asked to run
their offices more efficiently and to track the time of people working
in their offices. They have to develop systems to be more efficient. So
they're an interested party."
Consulting and mentoring will be key components of LOMAP. "We're
developing a group of volunteer consultants," Hess says, "including
attorneys who are savvy in technology issues."
In addition, LOMAP will assemble a corps of paid consultants, who
will offer free initial consultations and then reduced fees for
additional services to Bar members. LOMAP also will draw up a list of
vendors who will be available to consult with attorneys.
Other key products include educational programs and materials, and
extensive information will be available on the LOMAP pages of the Bar's
redesigned Web site, WisBar, which launched in early April. Attorneys
who have no Web access will be able to receive information by mail and
phone.
"In putting in place a cadre of high-tech people for LOMAP," Hess
says, "the Bar certainly can be a clearinghouse" for providing diverse
types of assistance.
Wisconsin Lawyer