Practice Management

I usually leave the tech stuff to Rick Georges over at FutureLawyer.  He usually keeps me informed of everything I need to know.  He blogged about this, however.  It is a practical need of mine and, therefore, I thought I would pass it along to you.

It is Rendeznew, and it promotes itself as "the NEW way to 'meet in the middle'".

Rick Georges states that this website "may be an Internet solution without a problem", and I agree to the extent that trying to find a middle place to meet did not overly perplex anybody before this or the other such sites appeared.  But, then again, looking up phone numbers in the phone book did not overly result in difficulties before the Internet changed that.

Here is my difficulty.  The greater Houston area is huge.  I work from home in The Woodlands on the upper north side of the metro area.  I therefore do not meet with clients, referral sources or potential referral sources in my office.  (In fact, I rarely meet with my clients in person except in preparation of discovery or trial or if I have a big check to give to them, but meeting with referral sources needs a more practical solution).  When proposing to meet, my guest do not want to come all of the way up to The Woodlands, and I certainly do not want to venture a couple or few hours down to the most south part of the metro area.  So, we try to meet in the middle.  Often times, some referral source wants to introduce me to someone of interest, and then there are other lawyers in my group that want to meet.  Often all are from different parts of town.  Admittedly, finding a middle ground in which to meet is not all that difficult.  I can just call up a Google map of Houston, eyeball it and suggest some large intersection.  But, the problem is where to meet when we get to that area?

This is where Rendeznew comes in.  This FREE web application not only computes the half way point, but it suggests restaurant options.

Now, there are apparently other sites that do this, such as MeetInBetweenUs and Mezzoman, but these sites only allow for two addresses.  Rendeznew allows you to enter up to four addresses in order to find a middle ground between all of the locations.