The new edition of LLRX.com was posted a few days ago. As always there’s lots of good content, but I direct your attention to two product reviews: Dennis Kennedy reviews CaseMap’s new ReportBook and Brett Burney reviews the new Palm LifeDrive. These are well-written reviews from experts. I’d strongly encourage you to read the
June 2005
Site of the Week: Flickr.com
The people behind Flickr are not exactly modest. They say that Flickr is "almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world." It could well be. This service is simple, fun, easy and free; although at some point you may want to get the benefits of the $24.95 per year Pro…
GPSolo June Issue Features the Internet
Check out the just-published June issue of GPSolo Technology & Practice Guide. It’s all about the Internet, from security to web marketing to the uses and abuses of e-mail. The issue is in your mailbox if you are an ABA General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Section member or there’s an online version…
Faster Jumps to IE Favorites
You probably have saved many links in your Favorites in Internet Explorer. Here’s a way to get to those sites you use most a little faster. Save a Web site as a Favorite in the root Favorites directory and give it a one- or two-letter name. Then you can type those letters into the browser…
Law Practice Tips Wins Technolawyer @ Award
Technolawyer has just announced the winners of the annual @ Awards and this blog has been named Favorite Practice Management Blog. Here’s the complete list of award winners in all of the categories. I am, as you can imagine, very pleased. Thank you to all of the voters and to all of the readers of…
Site of the Week- Law Office Management Assistance from MSBA
At the Maryland State Bar, Pat Yevics has been dispensing law office management guidance and assistance for quite some time. She serves as Director of Law Office Management Assistance for the MSBA. The department now has a blog named Law Office Management Assistance from the MSBA. There’s no doubt there will always be something…
We pause our tips for a brief musical interlude.
Fred Faulkner passed the music baton meme to me. It wasn’t an inital cause for rejoicing. The music baton involves answering five questions on your blog about your taste in music and passing them along to other bloggers. Since I am a lawyer, this gave me a chance to overanalyze the situation. After all, I’d…
Dealing with Your Mistakes
As hard as we try, we will still all make mistakes. Losing your keys is one thing, but a mistake that impacts a client matter will keep you awake at night. How do you deal with such an error? Well, the first and hardest step is to immediately contact the client and let them know.
Teaching Staff about Confidentiality
Preserving client confidences is an important part of a lawyer’s professional life. Hopefully we all instruct our staff frequently about the importance of maintaining confidentiality. Documenting instructions about confidentiality can have at least two benefits: 1) More formality serves to impress staff even more with the significance of the discussion and 2) Documentation can aid …
Kentucky Contemplates the Fate of Their Lawyer Bloggers
Earlier this year I welcomed Ben Cowgill’s Legal Ethics blog to the blogosphere. Now there has been a troubling development in Ben’s home state of Kentucky. It seems that the Kentucky Attorneys’ Advertising Commission wants to classify his blog as advertising, requiring him to do a filing and pay a $50 fee every time…