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May 25, 2012 / Announcements
Eight lucky May, 2012 law school graduates will receive a three month scholarship to Solo Practice University® Recently, we announced our stellar faculty at Solo Practice University now receive a stipend for their teaching. It took three years to achieve this goal and we are thrilled to be able to do so. However, several faculty said it [...]
May 24, 2012 / Guest Bloggers, Solo & Small Firm Practice
The iPhone 4S added a much advertised voice-activated feature called “Siri,” which performs tasks that legal blogger Ernie the Attorney called “purely magical” because Siri allows you to avoid typing on that tiny keyboard. Lawyers can speak to Siri to transcribe dictation into an email, a text message or a document. Siri can do web [...]
May 22, 2012 / Announcements, Marketing, Social Media, Solo & Small Firm Practice
With so much social media hype these past couple of years, sometimes I think the reasons for taking the time to blog have been lost. We are inundated by Twitter feeds, Facebook streams, Pinterest Boards and we forget that all this great content we are consuming was created by someone else, someone else who continues [...]
May 21, 2012 / Solo & Small Firm Practice
With the current economy, new grads setting up solo practices, BigLaw defectors going home to go to work, it’s time to revisit the rules of working from home. This post is not, however, about how to comply with the specific issue of being a lawyer working from home but the emotional and physical challenges of working from home… [...]
May 17, 2012 / Guest Bloggers, Marketing, Social Media, Solo & Small Firm Practice
Recently I gave a speech to over 500 human resource professionals on the use of social media in the workplace. I started the speech by asking how many of the attendees had an account for LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. Overwhelmingly the majority of the audience indicated they had both Facebook and LinkedIn accounts. Less than [...]
May 15, 2012 / Marketing
QR codes are all the rage. More than 20 million mobile phone users used QR codes in the last quarter of 2011. And mobile user searches on the internet have been growing exponentially. QR Code is Quick Response Code – a bar code which can bring you to a designated internet location or QR Codes can be programmed [...]
May 14, 2012 / Marketing, Social Media
I know. Blogging, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, now Pinterest. Can you handle yet another distraction? Well, when you first heard about blogging it was just for people journaling about their everyday problems…until it wasn't. When you first heard about Facebook you thought it was just for your teenagers….until it wasn't. When you first heard about YouTube [...]
May 10, 2012 / Guest Bloggers, Solo & Small Firm Practice
Should I partner with another attorney when starting my practice? This is a question often asked by young lawyers who want to go solo. However, few of the young lawyers seeking a response to this oft-asked question are really looking for a partner.
May 8, 2012 / Audio, Guest Lectures, Solo & Small Firm Practice
Jared receives countless questions from new solo lawyers and solos who have been in practice for decades but need advice on law practice management. We like to ask Jared what it is on lawyers' minds and (no) surprise…it's technology, cloud securiy, google, and law practice management software. However, you might be very surprised by what [...]
May 7, 2012 / Client Relations, Demographic/Economic Trends, Marketing, Solo & Small Firm Practice
John Jantsch wrote a terrific piece a few years ago called "7 Time-Tested Ways to Dig Out From a Recession". My position, however, is a little different. You should be doing these things ALL THE TIME. While you can read all seven ideas on John's great site, I'm going to highlight numbers three, six and [...]
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