July 2007

BlawgWorld 2007 is a free eBook featuring "77 thought-provoking essays from 77 of the most influential blawgs." I’m honored Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips was selected to be included with that group.Blawgworld07cover

Neil Squilante, Sara Skiff and the rest of the gang at TechnoLawyer have once again put together an outstanding publication in PDF format.

Atticus is a lawyer coaching firm. Graduates of their program have the opportunity to participate in subsequent telephone-based programs from experts in particular areas. Since they have now had 100 of these calls, they have decided to make their top 10 most popular calls available for all of us to listen to online. There are

  • You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there." ─ Yogi Berra

Lawyers opening up new law practices may hear from veteran lawyers that there is no need to spend time drafting a written business plan or budget for the first year. They may say that

Michael P. Maslanka does a "Work Matters" summer reading list each summer for the Texas Lawyer. His selections are aimed for corporate general counsel. But, while his first suggestion is definitely corporate self-improvement, the others range from "Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts," by

Six federal government agencies have combined their efforts into one comprehensive "one-stop shop" about all U.S. government product recalls. Recalls.gov seems to be a fine addition to any lawyer’s (or for that matter any consumer’s) list of research or reference websites. Hat tip to Oklahoma City lawyer Joyce Green for bringing this one to my

Here’s a sad story. A law firm received a great deal of offensive and pornographic spam. They had a spam filter, but a lot was still slipping by. Some offended employees complained. Even though this is not the fault of the law firm, I’m sure the complaints struck a nerve. You don’t want your employees

There was a discussion on Solosez today about adapters for AC power in your car to power your laptop.

I certainly hope no one would try to drive and use a laptop. But as more people start using the wireless Internet cards, it won’t be long before more lawyers facing long car trips figure that

I stumbled across Mashable last night looking for something. Mashable is a news blog about online social networking trends. (How’s that for focused content?)

The site does have some really nice resource collections and one article that I wanted to pass along to the cutting edge technology types among my readers. The articles include Podcasting