Tom Collins is the founder and former president of Juris, Inc. He is presently a law firm consultant. From the name. one would think that his blog, MorePartnerIncome.com, (which is sponsored by Juris) might be a rather dull discussion of analysis of financial reports, partnership agreements, billable hour requirements, equity ratios and
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Download and Read InnovAction E-zine
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I’ve been meaning to encourage you to download and read InnovAction, a great new e-publication on law firm innovation and creativity from the College of Law Practice Management. Now it is 4:59 p.m. Friday and I’m ready to head out. Luckily Dennis Kennedy explains so well why you need to download it and provides…
Craig Ball: Five Articles on Electronic Discovery
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With changes to the Federal Rules on the horizon for December, many firms are scrambling to get up to speed on electronic discovery issues. My good friend (and noted legal technologist) Craig Ball has compiled five of his articles on electronic data discovery into one file for your free downloading pleasure.
Please note that this…
Back-to-School with the Blawg Review
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Blawg Review #70, the "Back-to-School" edition, is just too interesting for you to miss. Check it out here. This layout is very clever. Am I the only one who thinks that this format actually allows you to scroll through the posts more quickly? There are quite a few worthwhile posts noted this week. The…
The New Managing Partner’s First 100 Days
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Several days ago I received an e-mail from Patrick J. McKenna about the release of his free new e-book, First 100 Days: Transitioning a New Managing Partner. You can read the brief book online in an interesting format from NXTBook at this location (loading will take a minute) or print or download it. Patrick McKenna…
Perfecting Your Practice (and a few notes on hardware)
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The ABA GP Solo and Small Firm Division put on some nice programming at the ABA Annual Meeting. (And I’m not saying that just because they asked me to speak.) I participated in two 90 minute programs called Perfecting Your Practice and Protecting Your Practice. I joined Uber-consultant Ross Kodner, Catherine Sanders-Reach from…
Site of the Week: Microsoft Office Online Home Page
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Now why would I feature a web page that most all of you have already visited as my Website of the Week? And one from Microsoft at that?
Microsoft Office Online features things that you would assume it should: tips and helps for using Microsoft Word, patches and fixes (including the "Remove Hidden Data"…
Online Filing Cabinets
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If you haven’t been paying attention lately, you may not have noticed that online storage space is getting cheap. I’ve been researching lately into the various potential uses of online storage space for lawyers, from online backup to file sharing to virtual drives for day-to-day work. You have probably noted that there is a lot…
Blawg: Marketing Your Practice with a Weblog
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The August issue of Law Practice Today has just been published online. Among its many features is "Blawg: Marketing Your Practice with a Weblog" by myself and Tom Mighell. I’d encourage all of you to check this out even if you have no plans whatsoever to ever start a blog. This is a "Best…
Site of the Week: PCWorld.com
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It’s really a great thing that so many print magazines publish so much of their content online for free. One knows that there have been a lot of heated discussions with editorial staff and publishers about that idea. PC World magazine has lots of great reviews, news items, public forums and other features on its…