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Last Entry: November 19, 2010 at 10:53:29

"How You Spend Your Time Determines the Quality of Your Life and Career"

Posted on September 15, 2010
This post was written by Cordell Parvin: "...There is no way to add more hours to your day. Other than the weekend when daylight savings time falls back to standard time, there are only 168 hours each week. The real question is...

"How to Run Effective Meetings"

Posted on September 15, 2010
This post was written by Allison Shields: "Lawyers attend (or host) a lot of meetings. Even solos are involved in bar association committee meetings, networking meetings and client meetings, just to name a few. To make them more effective and...

"Street Law Teams Up Businesses and Law Firms to Teach High School Students about the Law"

Posted on September 15, 2010
This post was written by Stephanie WestAllen: "This non-profit coordinates a number of activities throughout the United States, and world. From Street Law's Web site: Street Law began in 1972, when a small group of Georgetown University Law Center...

"What's Your Font of Choice for Legal Argument?"

Posted on September 15, 2010
This post was written by Dan Michaluk: "Seanna and I watched Gary Hustwit's documentary film about the Helvetica font on the weekend. It's led me to pose the question, "What's your font of choice for formal legal argument?" The...

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"California's Landmark Medical Malpractice and Liability Laws"

Posted on September 15, 2010
Podcast description from the website: "On this edition of Ringler Radio, host Larry Cohen welcomes colleague, Doug Merritt, out of the San Francisco Bay Area office and guest, Attorney Jeffrey S. Mitchell, partner with the firm, Bostwick, Peterson & Mitchell...

"Is a Website's Look and Feel Protected?"

Posted on September 15, 2010
In the news: "Trade dress protection guards a product image and the impression it creates among consumers to distinguish competing products. Does this protection extend to websites? Attorneys Richard Raysman and Peter Brown discuss recent decisions that deal with infringing...

"More Attorneys Using the iPad"

Posted on September 15, 2010
This post was written by J. Benjamin Stevens: "Earlier this week, I was talking with an attorney from California about the ever increasing number of lawyers who are using the iPad. He commented that he was hearing them say, "Hey,...

"Working with Images in Google Docs"

Posted on September 15, 2010
This post was written by Tom Mighell: "My Google tip of the week deals with images in Google Docs. It used to be that inserting images in Google Docs was a primitive affair, but the service has steadily improved its...

"Ideas to Reduce Paper Would Make Briefs More Readable, Too."

Posted on September 14, 2010
This post was written by Wayne Schiess: "In her recent article, Conserving the Canvas, Professor Ruth Anne Robbins makes the following recommendations aimed at reducing paper use in legal briefs. The recommendations are equally appropriate for improving the readability of...

"The Billable Hour: How Sick Is It?"

Posted on September 14, 2010
This post was written by Jim Hassett: "The failure of the billable hour to die is back in the news. In a recent AmLaw Daily post entitled The Billable Hour Endures, former Kirkland & Ellis partner Steven Harper argued...

"Ohio Adult Guardianship Bill"

Posted on September 14, 2010
This post was written Chuck Kallendorf: "A bill seeking revamp Ohio's provisions for adult guardianships was introduced in that state's House of Representatives last week.Included in amending current ORC �2111.02, the HB 578 specifies that "If the person for whom...

"Spotlight on William P. Statsky: A True Expert on Paralegals"

Posted on September 14, 2010
Podcast description from the site: "On this edition of The Paralegal Voice, co-hosts Lynne DeVenny and Vicki Voisin welcome William P. Statsky, one of the foremost experts on paralegals in the country and the author of numerous paralegal and legal...

"Can Employers Review Electronic Messages?"

Posted on September 14, 2010
In the news: "In the workplace, text messages and e-mails may be sent by employees using employer-issued computers, BlackBerrys, cell phones, and smartphones. But what happens when employees use these devices for personal messages? Does an employer have a right...

"Law Firm Marketing: 12 Reasons You Should Be Blogging"

Posted on September 14, 2010
This post was written by Cordell Parvin: "A year ago I posted a blog Top 10 Reasons You Should NOT Be Blogging. I wrote it simply to point out that blogging is not for everyone. Yet, there are reasons more...

"Blogs Published by Lawyers Influence Hiring Decisions of In-House Counsel"

Posted on September 14, 2010
This post was written by Kevin O'Keefe: "Blogs published by lawyers on relevant topics are becoming increasingly more important in in-house counsel's research of lawyers and law firms for potential hire. This per Corporate Counsel New Media Engagement Survey...

"Why You Should Use A/B Testing on Your Website"

Posted on September 14, 2010
This post was written by Jack Newton: "We all run into design-related questions when creating a web page. Questions like "Should this button be red or green?" or "What would the most effective headline for this paragraph be?". While these...

"Lawyer Profiles: Dropping the Middle Initials"

Posted on September 13, 2010
This post was written by Steve Matthews: "I'm impressed with a recent post by Bob Ambrogi titled The Art & Science of Lawyer Profiles. If you haven't seen it already, do yourself a favour and take a look. Whether you're...

"N.J. Court OKs Googling Jurors During Voir Dire"

Posted on September 13, 2010
In the news: "Now that New Jersey courtrooms are Wi-Fi enabled, trial lawyers with wireless laptops have a distinct edge: the ability to Google prospective jurors at the counsel table. An appeals court has given its blessing to the practice,...

"A Friday Coaching Session with Cordell: What Was the Most Important Thing You Did to Build Your Practice?"

Posted on September 13, 2010
This post was written by Cordell Parvin: "I was meeting with a group of lawyers I coach over dinner when one of them asked me what was the most important client development step I took. For me, the most...

"Lawyer Transitions: What's on the Negotiating Table?"

Posted on September 13, 2010
In the news: "When you receive a job offer, you first must determine what is or is not negotiable, note consultants Valerie Fontaine and Roberta Kass. They discuss the general components of a compensation package that might be up for...

"What is Patentable Subject Matter? Can a Business Method be Patented?"

Posted on September 13, 2010
Podcast description from the website: "What constitutes subject matter that can be patented? It's been studied by the courts for more than 100 years. On this edition of IP Counsel, we delve into the issue and take a close look...

"Use Acrobat to Create Searchable PDFs of All Your Documents"

Posted on September 13, 2010
This post was written by Sam Glover: "Performing OCR on every file as you go--even if you take advantage of the Scan Snap's first-page OCR feature--makes scanning go really slowly. Even on my super-fast desktop computer, it triples or quadruples...

"Help Desk"

Posted on September 13, 2010
From Tom Mighell's enewsletter: "For the next few weeks, I'll be covering some things that every PC user should know (sorry, Mac users, not many of these apply to you), but surprisingly a lot of people don't know. First,...

"Google Earth's Got a New Web Site"

Posted on September 13, 2010
This post was written by Tara Calisham: "With Google Instant taking up all the search nerd bandwidth on the Internet last week, you'd think Google didn't announce anything else. But it did. Google noted last week that it had launched...

"Sucking Up Effectively or How to Get Ahead at Work"

Posted on September 10, 2010
This post was written by Douglas Keene: "Researchers have your back. They really do. And they want you to know that sucking up at work can be effective--but you have to do it right. And there are differing strategies for...

"Increase Productivity by Varying Work Locations"

Posted on September 10, 2010
This post was written by Randall Ryder: "Pounding away on a brief is never much fun. The process is even worse when you hit a roadblock and feel rather uninspired about a particular argument. If you find yourself stuck,...

"Do You Make it Easy for People to Call You?"

Posted on September 10, 2010
This post was written by Michelle Golden: "When people find you online, whether via your website, blog, or social media profile, can they easily place a call to you or email you? I'm going to talk about two aspects...

"The Keys to Winning Business"

Posted on September 10, 2010
In the news: "Business development coach Robin Hensley recently sat down with John C. Yates, partner-in-charge of the technology practice at Morris, Manning & Martin, to discuss rainmaking and business development strategies. Yates talked about several aspects of working with...

"Three Ways to Get Fired by a Corporate Client"

Posted on September 10, 2010
This post was written by Larry Bodine: "Many are the ways that a lawyer can annoy a client, such as failing to return phone calls quickly, leaving no one in an office to field an emergency call from a client, and failing...

"Offer Unbundled Services Instead of Reducing Your Fee"

Posted on September 10, 2010
This post was written by Sam Glover: "Desperate new lawyers starting their own law firms are often tempted to reduce their fee in order to get some money in the door. But performing the same work for less money is foolish....

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