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When I was at the Nebraska Bar Association Solo & Small Firm Conference last week, I did a "60 Sites" presentation for their luncheon. The site SorryGottaGo.com got such a huge laugh that I decided to feature it as a Website of the Week here. I’m not going to explain what it features. Sorry, but…

Ellen Freedman is the practice management advisor for the Pennsylvania Bar. Most PMA’s are employees of their various bars, but Ellen provides her services via contract and has a private consulting services as well. Ellen is an accomplished consultant, writer, speaker, trainer and a real character as well. Ellen has several web publications. Many of…

It seems to me that one of the trends we will see in legal blogging is an emergence of group blogs. After all, really significant well thought-out blog posts can take some time to craft and a lot of really great lawyers don’t have a lot of free time on their hands. Combining efforts can…

Nerino Petro is the practice management advisor for the Wisconsin Bar Association. Before that, he ran two businesses, a law practice and a technology support firm for the legal professional. So he has a lot of practical knowledge of how law firm information technology infrastructure should work. Luckily for all of us, even though he…

Several blogs about solo law practice have sprung up recently. Some are very good. Some are perhaps still in the developmental stage. And, I don’t mean to sound cynical, but I know many of them will not survive long. The lawyer will get busy with "real work" or discover after a few posts that they…

For 100 weeks now, law-related bloggers (or blawgers, if you prefer) have been volunteering a few hours of their time each week to do a round-up of that week’s blawg postings with lots of careful attention and lots of links. I can’t say for sure that I’ve read a majority of them, but I’ve read…

I like bargains and Giveaway of the Day certainly offers bargains ─ free software packages. It reminds one of the early days of the Internet, when downloading freeware and shareware from various sources was a staple of online activity.  Now one risks spyware infection from indiscriminate downloading. So it is nice to know of a…

I try to stick closely to law-related items in my posts. But what the heck. It is the holiday season. I can give a gift to many of my readers with this post and provide some people much-needed stress relief during this busy time. (Ever notice how good we lawyers are at rationalizing a course…

I’m going to feature a non-lawyer news gathering site because it is so cool (and so Web 2.0.) I’ve wanted to write about Digg.com for a while, which features several topical news areas with links to the stories suggested and supported by Digg users. The thing that held me back was the need to do…