A guide to running a law firm in Qatar
Practical articles for lawyers and office managers in Qatar: hearings and appeal deadlines, fee agreements and vouchers, clients and their portal, the team and permissions, and moving on from paper and Excel.
The complete guide to managing a law firm in Qatar
A practical guide to running a law firm in Qatar: files and litigation degrees, hearings and deadlines, clients, fees, permissions and reports.
Technology
How to choose law firm software in Qatar: questions to ask before you decide
A practical checklist of questions to assess any law firm software in Qatar before you subscribe: Arabic, courts, deadlines, security and pricing.
From Excel to case management software: how to move your office’s data safely
When Excel stops being enough, and how to clean, move and verify your sheets of clients, cases, hearings and fee agreements safely.
Hearings & deadlines
Organising hearings and the daily hearing roll in a law firm
How to record each hearing’s decision and create the next automatically, share the day’s roll with lawyers, and remind the team and client on time.
How to avoid missing appeal and grievance deadlines: a practical tracking system
Tracking appeal and grievance deadlines: the judgment recorded on the day, a proposed deadline the lawyer reviews, and alerts days before it passes.
Accounts
Legal fee agreements and instalments: a practical system that protects the office’s dues
What goes into a fee agreement, how to split it into instalments linked to cases, and how to chase overdue ones before they become a dispute.
Receipt and payment vouchers in a law firm: from the voucher book to the system
From voucher book to system: sequential numbers, amounts in words in Qatari riyals, cancelling with a reason, and office and client costs kept apart.
Clients
A client portal for your law firm: why you need one and what the client sees
What clients see in the client portal and what they do not, and how the office chooses the sections, documents and account shown to each client.
Reminding clients of hearings and payments by WhatsApp and email
What to send clients and when: WhatsApp and email reminders for hearings and payments, templates with variables, quiet hours at night, a message log.
Organising legal consultations and turning them into cases and fee agreements
Log each consultation’s category, consultant and fee, follow it through to a case or service with a fee agreement, and read the figures every month.
Documents
Archiving law firm documents electronically: classification, permissions and preview
A practical way to archive documents in case and client files: clear types and titles, viewing without downloading, and a record of every access.
Tracking powers of attorney and delegation letters without expiry surprises
A register of clients’ powers of attorney with expiry alerts, and a delegation letter filled in from the case file and printed on your office’s form.
Office management
Law firm digital transformation: a practical 30-day plan
A week-by-week plan to take a law firm digital: responsibilities and permissions, then active files, hearings and accounts, then the client portal.
Law firm KPIs: what to measure and how to read the figures
Monthly KPIs a law firm reads from its system: cases by degree and status, lawyers’ workload, consultations, collections, and how to read them.
Dividing work and permissions in a law firm: who sees what?
How to divide work and permissions in your office: what each employee sees and does, and who has access to money and confidential cases.
Technology & security
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