May 2008

"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.

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

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

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

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.

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