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Tech Talk: Lawyer(s) Suddenly Laid Off? Looking to Set up an Office?

A couple of friends across the USA have either suddenly been let go, or made the decision to depart before the ax fell. Most have the same problems: How to quickly set up an office presence if a lawyers decides to open up shop. Here are a few quick - perhaps interim only suggestions:

1.Email: When I left my prior firm, I was sweating the purchase of an email server. After a day of searching, I settled on MailTrust.com.For about $3-$5 per mail box, you get POP, IMAP, & Webmail, Business-class email, sharing, & mobility. I set up my system for $70 a month. Plus, no contract terms to worry about long term. I am able to control the number of users, add or remove mailboxes, and I have an email address with a specific domain.

2.FAX: I signed up and receive faxes through efax.com. I'm able to get a local FAX number, and within about 10 minutes I was ready to go.

3.Phones: Obviously a concern. I am able to tell you that we now use VOIP, but in the beginning we went cell. An attorney I know who was let go suddenly actually only had his personal cell. He went to tossabledigits.com for a disposable phone number.

At the very least, get another cell phone line for the first several days of your new career. You can always forward it to a main number when you're set up.

4.Internet/WebsiteMy best advice to anyone reading this is to get and keep your own domain. That is, don't entrust any internet hosting company to build your site andadminister the .com name. Why? I can tell you horror stories of a firm passing off its .com to a host, only to have that host go under, and with it the .com name.

I simply use godaddy.com or yahoo.com, buy the domain name, and forward it to the site that is ultimately built. I can go into detail about modifying an A record, but that is for later.

Full post as published by A Georgia Lawyer on February 15, 2009 (boomark / email).