Future-Proofing Your Solo Practice
How are you future-proofing your law practice? You better start thinking about it if you haven’t already.
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Making My Case for Law Practice Management Software
Let’s face it. Law Practice Management Solutions are springing up like weeds in an unkempt garden. It’s getting harder to separate the pernicious weeds from the serious bloomers and it’s no wonder; law practice management solutions are becoming a mandatory part of law practice in terms of cost effectiveness, efficiency and meeting client demand. Here are our thoughts to guide you in your selection of this important practice tool.
Has the Internet Changed How Lawyers Reason and Write?
Nowadays, much legal research is done on the internet. Sure, it saves time and can be of great value. The downside: Instead of using legal reasoning, attorneys are, in many instances, and to a lesser or greater extent, relying on the methodology and conclusions reached by others. And their writing….
Why Lawyers Need to Get With Encryption – Guest Lecture with Jared Correia
Encryption is now part of your professional duty to safeguard your clients’ data. Encryption is a very techno-scary word for many lawyers. It’s intimidating, actually. But even if it is, it doesn’t mean you can bury your head in the sand, not if you are going to represent your clients responsibly. Encryption is critical when […]
Running a Distraction-Free Law Office in the Age of the Smartphone
These days people boast about being busy all the time as if staying busy is an indication of success. What they don’t tell you is what they are doing while they are busy. Working for the sake of appearing productive when you don’t have anything to do is just as much of a waste of time as spending all day having political debates on Google Plus or Facebook. But how do you avoid the distractions, the time sucks, the stress? Read more………
Efficiency Is Key to Staying Competitive
Many lawyers remain techno-dinosaurs because they don’t want to invest the time to learn how to use new and more efficient technology. They shortsightedly view an investment in training through the lens of billable hours. They focus on a temporary loss of revenues instead of the future improvements in productivity. Meanwhile they drop farther and farther behind, which only increases their anxiety with regard to technology. Read more…
How to Create Teams for Legal Matters as a Solo – Guest Lecture with Ryan McKeen
Ryan McKeen of the McKeen Law Firm is back with us again. This time he shares how he can take on larger matters by creating legal teams for cases on an ‘as needed’ basis.
This is a must-listen to guest lecture because there is a ‘no man’s land’ between being an office of one – you – and growing into having full time staff and permanently increased overhead. Ryan shares smart and highly effective ways to grow and be profitable during the journey through ‘no man’s land’. Listen and learn.
What Legal Consumers Need vs What You Think They Want
The narrative currently embraced by everyone in the profession is the predominant reason why consumers don’t engage lawyers is cost. Wrong! In a recent legal needs survey it was determined that cost is not the predominant factor when deciding not to hire a lawyer…even in today’s economy. Surprisingly, the dominant reason consumers are not contacting lawyers is…read more.
Are You Working With The New Consumer-Facing Legal Startups?
2015 is shaping up to be THE year of the legal startup. Angelist.com is flush with more than 720 startups and almost 1,100 investors. In 2013 a stunning $458 million was invested into legal startups, a breathtaking leap from a mere $66 million invested in 2012. But while investment dollars declined in 2014, the startups are proliferating […]
Online Security Basics for Attorneys – Guest Lecture with Deborah Gonzalez (Part 2)
As promised, here is the second part of this important and fascinating guest lecture with Deborah Gonzalez discussing online security basics for attorneys. If you’ve not listened to Part 1 yet, you can do so here. The audio is about 48 minutes. Listen directly below Deborah Gonzalez, Esq. is an attorney and the founder of […]
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