Managing a Law Firm

Personal Assistant Apps: The Options

In his series on apps for Android-using lawyers, The Droid Lawyer blogger Jeffrey Taylor has covered note-taking and digital dictation. Today, he covers those nifty voice-command apps that help turn your smartphone into a digital personal ...

Jeffrey Taylor - January 16, 2013
Adobe Reader XI: A Worthwhile Download for Lawyers

Mostly in life, you get what you pay for. And when you pay nothing, you don’t often get much in return. Sometimes you get more than you bargained for, but not in a good way. Once in a great while, though, you get an unexpected prize. Adobe ...

Vivian Manning - January 15, 2013
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Create a Local Google+ Page for Your Law Firm

This post is not intended to convince you to join Google+. My friend Steve Matthews explains why lawyers should care about Gyi Tsakalakis - January 14, 2013

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Get Real About Marketing

Ready to ratchet up your marketing? Perhaps business is slower than you'd like, or you just don’t like the direction your practice is taking—too much repetition, not enough challenge? Maybe it's time to refocus your practice. Or maybe you need ...

Merrilyn Astin Tarlton - January 11, 2013
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Five Ways to Have a Much Better Day

What you do (or don't do) to begin your day can determine how you feel for the rest of the day—whether you're focused or distracted, energized or tired, positive or grumpy. That's why it's so important to develop strong productivity practices ...

Daniel Gold - January 10, 2013
WordRake: Clearing the Clutter from Legal Writing

It seems excellent lawyers do not always produce excellent legal writing. Whether due to a lack of time, of mental energy, of colleagues available to proofread, or of awareness of just how bloated a legal document can get, good lawyers sometimes ...

Carol Gerber - January 9, 2013
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Put Down the Phone and Back Away Slowly

The National Technology and Data Association (NTDA), a Virginia-based nonprofit focused on technology-related economics, combined with support from the Data Transfer Registrar (DTR), a governmental database logging national data transfer rates ...

William Melater - January 8, 2013
Pickin’ Up What You’re Puttin’ Down: Locating Your Files

In many ways, being a lawyer is still about pushing paper, even if much of that "paper" is now kept electronically, with redwelds and staples going the way of the triceratops and woolly mammoth, respectively. Certainly, the chief allure of ...

Jared Correia - January 7, 2013
Essential Time Management Tips for Attorneys

Dan Pinnington and Reid Trautz, co-authors of the ABA book The Busy Lawyer’s Guide to Success: Essential Tips to Power Your Practice, share five of their favorites time management tips. 1. Handle more tasks with just one touch. Do as much ...

Dan Pinnington and Reid Trautz - January 4, 2013
Revisiting the iPad Keyboard Problem

We've been hearing some mumbling among our iPad-owning colleagues lately. Something about the keyboard? Given that most iPad owners are passionately in love with the device, this grumbling is surprising. Is it an actual flaw? Or is it that we ...

The Editors - January 3, 2013
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