In an interview earlier this year, Laurel Bellows, managing partner of her Chicago business and employment law firm and current president of the American Bar Association, was asked, “How do you do it? How do you do work-life balance and is it ...
Ruth Carter - May 8, 2013In the midst of a recent conversation about how to leverage Evernote to become more productive, I was asked a simple yet thought-provoking question: "Daniel, how do you define productivity?" My definition may be a bit nonconformist, but here it ...
Daniel Gold - May 7, 2013With the Third Annual Super Marketing Conference in Boston mere weeks away, LOMAP's Jared Correia has lawyer marketing on the brain. The day-long conference is live at Suffolk University School of Law—and via webcast—May 16, but today the ...
Jared Correia - May 3, 2013Future of lawyers: Five big ideas from Suffolk Law Institute. With Professor Andrew Perlman at the helm, Suffolk University Law School in Boston recently created the Institute on Law Practice Technology & Innovation. Its purpose: To “study ...
Heidi Alexander - April 26, 2013Other people talk about the classic maxim that people should "know, like and trust" you—or something like that—and that gets you business. I’ve heard it attributed to Dale Carnegie and it must appear in some business book somewhere. I’ll be ...
Jared Correia - April 25, 2013Who are these “enterprising lawyers”? Actually, they are easy to spot. Look for the happier, more engaged lawyers. Deeply invested in the power of the work they do for their clients, they have ample interests beyond the practice of law as well. ...
The Editors - April 23, 2013If you use WordPress for your blog or law firm website, you may know that this month the WordPress community faced perhaps its largest brute force attack. Reports from around the web confirmed a large botnet was using brute-forcing passwords to ...
Gyi Tsakalakis - April 22, 2013You never stop learning. And with so many big conferences this time of year, there's no shortage of opportunities. This week the Association of Legal Administrators held its 2013 Annual Conference and Exposition, covering a wide ...
Lorri Salyards - April 19, 2013Question: "What’s the current thinking on business cards? They seem like an anachronism in a digital world, yet I don’t know how else to invite someone to contact me without them. What do lawyers 'in the know' do?" In this ...
The Editors - April 18, 2013Anyone who knows me (or follows me on Twitter) knows that I love sports, particularly my beloved Golden Gophers. So it should come as no surprise that I watched the press conference with our new men’s basketball coach, Richard Pitino. After ...
Sally J. Schmidt - April 17, 2013