Your office manager may not be as brilliant as you, but with the increased income on your part, you can afford the salary and mistakes and have increased profits. Increasing income has five to ten times the value of decreasing expenses. Trust another person to make decisions about critical office management needs including telephones, fax lines, computer lines, e-mail, answering machines, voice mail systems, desks, chairs, and reception furniture. You can spend an unlimited amount of time comparison shopping to save a few dollars. Let someone else spend their time doing the shopping.
Most lawyers look upon the hiring process with distaste.
They think of interviewing and testing and reference checking as an interference with billable time. They don t like saying no to an applicant. The easy way out is to hire people you like or who are physically attractive, but this often results in the wrong person being hired for the job. A written job description coupled with discipline can result in the right person being hired. Self- employed lawyers frequently work 50 to 60 hours a week and even more when there is paying work to be done.