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January 16, 2015

Weekly Review for Law Practice Tips for Friday, January 16, 2015

Here are some recent articles of interest that I found this week related to law practice management, law technology, and legal marketing. Enjoy!

Legal Tech: NetDocuments Adds Smart Email Management with Recommind’s Decisiv
Decisiv allows NetDocuments to add email management to its already-great document management. And not just email management, but smart email management.

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Former NFL Players Advance Claims Over Images in Madden Video Games
Electronic Arts Inc., maker of the Madden NFL video games, lost a bid to dismiss claims by former Los Angeles Rams quarterback Vince Ferragamo and thousands of other retired professional football players that the company owes them money for depicting them in its products.

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Tech Tips: Five apps for creating timelines
There are many reasons to keep a timeline. You might want to create a chronological map of how a project or company developed, track a family history, or follow your career progress or trajectory. But whatever the reason, you need the right tool to make the timeline easy to work with. You can’t just use a spreadsheet or text document to create a helpful, interactive tool. Instead, you need the right software to do the job.

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Thank you for reading (and sharing). Stay tuned for next week’s weekly review for Law Practice Tips!

January 9, 2015

Weekly Review for Law Practice Tips for Friday, January 9, 2015

Here are some recent articles of interest that I found this week related to law practice management, law technology, and legal marketing. Enjoy!

Law Practice Management Tips: Can Free Consultations Pay Off for Lawyers?
Smooth or crunchy? Sean Connery or Roger Moore? Free consultations or no? These are the debates that characterize our times. Because this is a legal blog, we’re going to have to save the first two for another blog (although, off the record, the answers are “crunchy” and “Roger Moore”).

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Law Practice Tips: 20 Law Practice Empowerment Tips
At the American Bar Association’s annual GPSolo National Solo and Small Firm Conference in October, practice management experts Peggy Gruenke and Alan Klevan presented “60 Practice Empowerment Tips in 60 Minutes” — focused on the nuts-and-bolts of running a successful law practice. We asked the pair to zero in on their favorite practice-boosting pointers.

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Law Practice Tips: How to eliminate 80% of your law firm’s past due accounts
According to a survey by LexisNexis, 73% of law firms report having past due accounts. Lawyers in small firms reported that up to 39% of their total client base is past due. What causes this? And what can be done about it?

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Florida Debt Collection Defense: Debt Collectors Hound Millions of Retired Americans
It may be hard to imagine Grandma unable to pay her bills or Grandpa being hounded by debt collectors. But for millions of Americans, this is the harsh reality of retirement.

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Florida Legal News: Finally, the muzzle is off! Bar drops past results restrictions from lawyer advertising
Amounts that clients have won in lawsuits are again permissible for lawyers to use in television, radio, and billboard advertising.

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Legal Tech Tips: Lawyers Going Google: How to Use and Supercharge Gmail and Calendar
Millions of corporations, small businesses, solo lawyers, large and small law firms, and federal, state, and local governments have “gone Google.”

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Thank you for reading (and sharing). Stay tuned for next week’s weekly review for Law Practice Tips!

December 29, 2014

Weekly Review for Law Practice Tips for Monday, December 29, 2014

Here are some recent articles of interest that I found this week related to law practice management, law technology, and legal marketing. Enjoy!

Legal Marketing: Top 7 Internet Marketing Mistakes Law Firms Need To Avoid
I’ve worked with dozens of attorneys helping to enhance their online presence and market their firms. I’ve also studied many more and it isn’t uncommon to see lawyers (often busy doing what they do best) miss obvious opportunities for getting more exposure on the internet. Just like in every industry, people make some really basic mistakes when promoting their brand on the web and lawyers are no different.

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Law Practice Management Tips: Cloud-Based Practice Management: A Comparative Review
Cloud-based practice management is the future of law practice, especially for small firms or solo lawyers. The fact is, practice management software helps lawyers manage their lives, provide competent representation, and control all aspects of their law practices. Many lawyers try to manage their practices with a combination of calendaring, file folders on a server, or even as an Excel spreadsheet. But as I’ve pointed out, practice management and case management systems add much more value, and help minimize conflicts or other issues.

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Law Practice Tips: 12 Rules for Turning Phone Consultations Into Retainers
Initial consultations are different on the phone.
Recently, I published 12 Rules for Turning Initial Consultations Into Retainers, which inspired some questions from lawyers meeting with clients via phone and online. The phone is different—very different.

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Law Practice Tips: Soloing With Mindfulness In Mind
Solos always need tools to get ahead. The most obvious tool to help you do that is actually inside your head. You just need some training to understand it, and use it to your best advantage. The training is mindfulness training.

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Thank you for reading (and sharing). Stay tuned for next week’s weekly review for Law Practice Tips!