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Allison C. Shields, Esq.Owner, Legal Ease Consulting Allison C. Shields, Esq., President of Legal Ease Consulting, Inc., provides leadership, practice management and business development coaching and consulting services for successful lawyers and law firms. A 1993 graduate of Fordham University School of Law, Allison has been a practicing lawyer for over 15 years. She is a past Administrative Partner at Lewis Johs Avallone Aviles, LLP, a multi-disciplinary law firm with offices on Long Island and in Manhattan that employs over 50 attorneys. As a result of her experience as both a lawyer and a law firm manager, Ms. Shields understands the law firm environment and the daily pressures faced by lawyers trying to manage and build their business while practicing law and successfully serving their clients. Allison has experience spearheading marketing and business development initiatives, enhancing internal communication systems and constructing systems and procedures for such functions as billing, database management, personnel and file handling. As a practicing lawyer, Ms. Shields handled litigated matters ranging from premises and products liability to labor law and professional malpractice. Allison is a member of the American, New York State, Nassau and Suffolk County Bar Associations. She has published articles in The Suffolk Lawyer, The Nassau Lawyer, the Law Trends publication of the American Bar Association’s GP/Solo section, Law Practice Today, the on-line publication of the Law Practice Management Section of the American Bar Association, and TechnoLawyer, among others. She is also the author of the Legal Ease Blog at www.LegalEaseConsulting.com. Her website, Lawyer Meltdown (www.LawyerMeltdown.com), provides resources and information for lawyers about managing and building their practices. Allison has presented workshops in both private and public settings on various topics, including: productivity, time management, effective communication, handling clutter in your law practice, mission statements, marketing and management of a law practice, targeting your ideal client, client service, legal marketing basics, networking, law firm billing, legal fees and alternatives to the billable hour, law firm systems, and eliminating obstacles to law firm effectiveness. Here's what others are saying about Allison..."Allison works with exceptional insight and understanding of both legal practice and the lawyer's life. She is expert in assessing a firm's unique resources and working with individual practitioners to realize their highest potential. The result is a creative, effective, and satisfying practice tailored to the strengths of the firm and its staff. Allison has my highest and unequivocal recommendation. Allison has fielded my questions and challenges ranging from the day to day running of my office and scheduling, to innovative value-billing approaches, to helping me define and implement the vision I have for my firm. I had a plan and direction when I retained Allison, but without her help I would not be as far along in implementing that plan, with the results to show for it. Allison provides accountability, but true counsel as a consultant as well. I look back on remarkable progress over the past months. One of my personal career goals is, once again, to integrate my expertise and experience across various disciplines into a coherent, effective, and profitable practice. This is happening, very much thanks to Allison." Peter Vincent Arcese, JD, LL.M Follow Me
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