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Specificity Avoids Calendar Calamities

“Your Honor, this is a motion to vacate the most recent order and request for rehearing. Unfortunately, our failure to appear was caused by a calendaring error in our office.” How embarrassing. Yet, “calendaring” or “docketing” (depending on ...

Theda C. Snyder - October 6, 2015
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Five Ways to Polish Off 2015

Getting it done. That's where good ideas can fall short. Making a list of action items is one thing. It’s another to start — and finish — checking those items off. Earlier this year, I rounded up a list of attorney “to-do’s” from law practice ...

Frank Strong - October 2, 2015
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Experience Is the Best Teacher

When it was all over, I took a few days off. When I returned, the managing partner wanted to see me. I entered his office ready to be fired. It was the first big case I had led, and there had been quite a few problems.

Otto Sorts - October 1, 2015
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How to Speak to Your Dream Client

Recently, a lawyer who said he'd "been given the chance to meet with my dream client" asked for help preparing for that meeting. He allowed that, "they're not adding any new panel counsel yet, but I was still given the opportunity to meet with ...

Mike O'Horo - September 28, 2015
Tech Tips Friday Five
Must-Have Tech Tools to Start Up a Law Practice

What’s the “bare minimum” technology a lawyer needs to start up a solo law practice today? For this month's Friday 5+ Tech Tips, we asked practice management tech experts Jim Calloway, Heidi Alexander, Catherine Sanders Reach and Carole Levitt ...

The Editors - September 25, 2015
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Enterprising Lawyer Daniel Lewis

It's unavoidably true: The business of practicing law is changing. And what it means to do a lawyer's work is changing right along with it. From time to time at Attorney at Work, we tip our hat to one of the new "enterprising lawyers" leading ...

The Editors - September 22, 2015
Best Collaboration Tool? It All Depends

There are so many ways to collaborate now, with a plethora of helpful technology tools to choose from, based on your needs or wants.

Catherine Sanders Reach - September 18, 2015
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Starting the Day on a Happy Foot

Earlier this year, I listened to an episode of the podcast "Invisible Office Hours," where the hosts, entrepreneurs Paul Jarvis and Jason Zook, shared their morning routines. They don't begin their days by checking email and jumping on client ...

Ruth Carter - September 14, 2015
Five Healthy Ways to Relax

“Relax: re·lax (rəˈlaks/) v. make or become less tense or anxious.” Being tense and anxious can make you worried, uneasy, irritable, exhausted and even susceptible to illness, including diabetes, heart disease, obesity, gastrointestinal ...

Jamie Spannhake - September 11, 2015
Stop Using Squishy Language

"One of the only": the ambiguous phrase that keeps popping up. I don't know what this means — and neither do your readers. A recent newspaper story about Martha Stewart’s sale of her brand quoted a branding maven: “When [Stewart] started, she ...

Theda C. Snyder - September 8, 2015
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