Managing a Law Firm

Three Ways to Get Paperless – Right Now!

You're hardly the last lawyer to go paperless. But you probably aren't an early adopter like Donna Neff, either — her estates and trusts practice has been paperless for years. Like most, you're probably parked somewhere between the ...

Donna Neff - June 10, 2014
Law Firm Dress Code Too Much Trouble?

Question: With the warm weather, the annual "what to wear" debate is underway at our firm — and it's probably time to update and enforce a dress code policy. Do most law firms have a dress code? Should we have ...

The Editors - June 9, 2014
Friday Five
Five Ways to Supercharge Gmail

Email! We may love it for its convenience or hate it for its omnipresence, but it’s tough to imagine a life, especially a productive work life, without it. But what you might really like to imagine are some new ways to enhance its daily use. ...

The Editors - June 6, 2014
Avoiding Isolation in a Virtual Law Practice

You may have contemplated joining a virtual law firm at some point, or creating your own virtual practice. Aside from the initial technological hurdle, a virtual practice can be an easy and welcome new reality. The joy of kissing your office ...

David Goldenberg - June 5, 2014
Want to Avoid Irrelevance? Put Data to Work

At LexThink 2014, Gwynne Monahan started her six-minute speech on the given theme, "The End of Irrelevance," with a creative analogy: Strawberry Pop-Tarts. Here's her take on how data can transform the way you look at, well, just about anything.

Gwynne Monahan - May 26, 2014
Attorney at Work Friday Five
The Five Clients You Meet In Hell

Mitch Albom, who has been regularly employed as a sportswriter for the Detroit Free Press, has written songs for Warren Zevon and penned a few books, one of which is "The Five People You Meet in Heaven." Now, I’ve never read that book (per my ...

Jared Correia - May 23, 2014
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Five Reasons You Should Care About “NewLaw”

Perhaps you’ve found yourself asking, at some point, “Just what is ‘NewLaw’? More importantly, why should I be remotely interested in it?” Having recently set out to catalog dozens of entities that have been or ...

Jordan Furlong - May 16, 2014
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Legal Analytics: The Future of Intelligent Design

Solo and small firm lawyers are very much like "baseball men" prior to the Moneyball conversion. Once certain teams started making decisions based on hard numbers, rather than suppositions and unrefined projections, the new-school teams were ...

Jared Correia - May 6, 2014
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You and Your Content

I've got good news and ... er, weird news. First the weird: Whether you like it or not, you have become a media outlet. If you don't believe me, think for a minute about all the stuff — pictures, posts, emails, videos, opinions, reviews — that ...

Merrilyn Astin Tarlton - May 2, 2014
Online Communications
Build Trust in Online Legal Communications

Trust: It’s a quality that supports ease of communication and smooth case management and secures your colleagues’ and clients’ loyalty. But with so much happening today in the online space, how do you establish it? Here are four building blocks ...

Matt Spiegel - April 29, 2014
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