Helping you maximize course success and prepare for your legal career, Traina-Donnes' LAW PRACTICE MANAGEMENT, 5th edition, delivers current, easy-to-understand coverage of day-to-day law office management topics, including client relations and communication skills; legal fees, timekeeping and billing; client trust funds and law office accounting; calendaring, docket control and case management; legal marketing; and file and law library management. Up-to-date forms, charts and checklists throughout illustrate important forms relating to law practice functions, equipping you with the skills and concepts needed to complete your job effectively and efficiently. In addition, ethics-related case reviews enable you to think through potential ethical dilemmas before you are actually confronted by them.

About the Author
Cynthia Traina-Donnes has been a paralegal educator for over 30 years, teaching bankruptcy, legal technology and advanced legal technology at Tulane University. She is a qualified family/civil mediator registered with the Louisiana Bar Association, a securities arbitrator with FINRA and a former bankruptcy trustee. She is also an approved CLE sponsor, conducting seminars in several practice areas. In addition to this book, Traina-Donnes co-authored LAW OFFICE TECHNOLOGY: A THEORETICAL APPROACH, 9th Edition, also published by Cengage. In November 2018, she was elected to the AAfPE board as the ABA commission representative. A former CASA advocate and CASA board president, she currently serves as an American Cancer Society board member. She has six children and six grandchildren.


Book Information
ISBN 9780357767405
Author Cynthia Traina Donnes
Format Paperback
Page Count 400
Imprint Delmar Cengage Learning
Publisher Cengage Learning, Inc
Weight(grams) 839g
Dimensions(mm) 278mm * 217mm * 16mm