Have you ever been to a restaurant and seen someone a few tables down from you checking their constantly buzzing smart phone, occasionally ignoring a message but mostly responding to it? And in between, actually eating? Oh, and remembering to have snippits of conversation with their lunch date? Me too. But who am I to judge since I’m opining from [...]
Staring at briefs and motions can kill the reading love for any legal professional. And there’s evidence that if you don’t read books, but mindlessly surf the web at night, you may be diminishing your long-term ability to concentrate. Last November I listed 5 unputdownable books. That was a popular post, so here I am again for the summer with [...]
Much has been written about the importance of bogging for lawyers and law firms. We’re here to help you set up a killer blog in no time! You see, I was once that novice…not so many years ago…but with lots of research and a sleepless night or two, I successfully created several blogs on the WordPress self-hosted platform using the inexpensive web host, Bluehost.
Jamming out to your favorite tunes while working out is one thing. It’s normal to see people at the gym with earbuds in, and for us gym rats it’s a key part of exercising. But jamming out while you’re writing a brief or pouring over a contract?
Lawyers on mobile devices: you gotta check out GoodReader. It slices! It dices! GoodReader, as the name implies, lets you read documents of many different shapes and sizes: PDFs, Office files (Word, Powerpoint, Excel), Hi-Res images, Web Archives, even iWorks files for the Mac fans out there. One of the top reasons people like GoodReader is its ability to plow [...]
Productive social media engagement requires some restraint. It sounds simple and obvious enough but execution is often lacking on the part of legal professionals. Lawyers get in trouble and even get fired for saying the wrong things on Twitter. To keep yourself clean and not in danger of getting sacked or disbarred, take a look at these examples of what [...]
Wanna learn web marketing for law offices? Last week we were blown away by the hour’s worth of incredible knowledge that Jay Berkowitz imparted during our Legal Productivity webinar. First class stuff on the subject of building an amazing legal web presence! In this podcast episode, we’re excited to offer the first 15 minutes of the program. We also invite [...]
One of the many cool things about working in our space is that I get the opportunity to regularly read opinions on the legal profession written by the innovators who are actively involved, on a day-to-day basis, in trying to improve it. Frequently these folks offer spot-on practical advice. Simple, understandable, incredibly valuable and yet – somewhat paradoxically – free.
Recently we featured an article titled “5 Summer Dressing Tips for Lawyers“. One of our readers, Cate Eranthe, pointed out that all the tips were for men. She offered to write a piece for women lawyers to round out our offering. Thanks Cate! Here in the San Francisco Bay Area the weather just went from cool and rainy to 86 [...]
In Jacoby & Meyer’s complaint filed on May 18, 2011 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, the Firm alleges that the “out-dated” Rules of Professional Conduct “severely restrict” their ability to “raise the capital necessary to pay for improvements in technology and infrastructure.” Just like any other business that wants to scale while maintaining a high level of service, they need some funding.
