June 2005

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

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

Tlawards_2005winner_2 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

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

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.

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