"Is Grandma Drugged Up?" is an interesting CNN article on overmedication of senior citizens with some valuable information and links. This isn’t my usual fare here, but I figure that many of you practice elder law, most others have elderly relatives and all of us hope to become elderly some day.
May 2008
Blogs on Superior Client Service
If you were to try to boil down into three words the most important thing for a law firm to focus on to succeed, you couldn’t go wrong with "superior client service." Leo Bottery did a post listing numerous Client Service blogs, which revisits a list Dan Hull published in early 2007. I’m happy…
Another Firm Improperly Redacts Important Documents
Today we have another report of a law firm making a technology blunder that appears to arguably violate a court order on what should be sealed and could adversely impact the client’s case. According to an article originally published in the Connecticut Law Tribute, pleadings from a class action lawsuit against GE that the court…
Site of the Week: e-Discovery Team (Featuring Summaries of 31 e-Discovery Cases)
Attorney Ralph Losey publishes the e-Discovery Team Blog. He has posted over 100 items there in the last 18 months. Of particular note is his most recent post where he mentions how useful the search features of his sites are and then provides summaries of his 31 "favorite" e-Discovery cases complete with links to the…
Your Website: Getting the Attention of the Search Engines
You finally got your law firm Web site online and waited for the new clients to come rolling in. But for some reason it just didn’t happen that way. Well, all of our marketing efforts are long term projects, with the possible exception of TV, radio and newspaper ads. Your marketing efforts will hopefully still…
See You Later, at the Aggregators!
Courtney Kennaday and I have just published "See You Later, at the Aggregators!" for our column Sites for Sore Eyes that appears regularly in the ABA GP Solo Division Technology eReport.
Despite the huge initial embrace of RSS newsfeeds and newsreaders from the technology early adopters, many lawyers and other Net users have shied away…
50 Tricks to Get Things Done Faster, Better, and More Easily
There are literally tons of books published on increasing your productivity and improving your time management skills. There are numerous classes, blogs, (I noted 100 of them not long ago.) websites, coaches and other resources to give advice in this area. 50 Tricks to Get Things Done Faster, Better, and More Easily is a quick…
Site of the Week: Law.alltop.com
I think all-on-a-page news aggregators are pretty slick and I’ve featured several of them already this year. Law.alltop.com is a really nice example of combining many newsfeeds from blogs and law-related news sources. The great thing here is you can hover over any headline and see all or a large part of the linked item.
A Family-Friendly Calendaring Idea
Here’s an idea our family is trying this summer. Hopefully it will help us with scheduling and hopefully we will continue after the summer. We are setting up Google Calendars and sharing them so that you view all in one combined view. There are many other options for online calendars, like CalendarHub or 30 Boxes…