I'm heading off to Salt Lake City for tomorrow's program Economic Stimulus Package for Lawyers: Surviving Today’s Economy. The Utah bar staff are always such good hosts, so it will be a fun time. But doing a day-long program (almost) by oneself creates an extra sense of responsibility. Lincoln Mead will join me for…

Marketing guru Larry Bodine said Twitter was not a good marketing tool for lawyers and the Twitterverse reacted strongly against those comments. Lawyers USA interviewed me and some others about the controversy and did this post on it. While I tend to agree with Larry, I wouldn't have used his exact language. Twitter is a…

The Colorado Bar Association recently made available a timely resource that I think anyone who has employees should seriously consider downloading, reading and saving for future reference. Pandemic Preparations for the Workplace was authored by Donald W. Benson and Katherine S. Dix. It is a nice treatment of several issues, including some that you might…

I really like Readability. I used it as one of my contributions to ABA TECHSHOW's 60 Sites in 60 Minutes 2009. It actually isn't a website you will visit often because, if you take my advice, you will visit it once and install the Readability applet link on your browser links bar. Readability "is…

I'm going to do a live webcast on a cutting edge topic on December 16, 2008 if any of you are interested. "What Space? Social Networking for Attorneys" with Jim Calloway, Director of OBA Management Assistance Program

Use of social networking websites has exploded with some situations that have generated headlines. Should a lawyer use…

PC World blogger Rick Broida's post "Get More From Outlook With Hassle-Free PC" is so good that you should go read it right now if you are an Outlook user. I subscribe to his weekly e-mail even though receiving too much e-mail is my biggest problem issue. But I'd glad I got this one. (You…

I'm passing this along as one of those "every lawyer's worst nightmare" stories. Hopefully a judge has discretion to let this mistake be repaired. A motion is now pending. But imagine a partner learning that a law firm associate and law clerk managed to obligate a client to purchase millions of dollars in assets the…

The third Annual National Solo and Small Firm Conference sponsored by the ABA GPSOLO Division will be held October 3rd and 4th, 2008 in Santa Fe, N.M. and the hotel deadline has been extended to September 3, 2008 5:00 p.m. CST. So it is time to decide now that you will attend.

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