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Office 365 Productivity Tips for Lawyers
How can you get the most from Microsoft Office 365’s new features? Curious about all the apps and add-ins popping up in the Office Store? For this edition of Tech Tips Friday, practice management...
View ArticleWrite Your Way Into the Euphemism-Free Zone
Last month’s United Airlines overbooking debacle and the subsequent PR disaster and brand implosion has me thinking of the value of communicating clearly. There’s much to be critical of in United’s...
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Track These Performance Metrics to Improve Client Relations
Corporate clients are increasingly savvy about performance metrics — often more so than the lawyers whose work product is being measured. Many lawyers are unaware of the categories and parameters...
View ArticleMining Document Metadata: Pointers
Each time an electronic document comes into being, metadata is created along with it. People often add their own, too. From the obvious (like page numbers) to the obscure (like dates of creation and...
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Pen on Paper Works! The Bullet Journal
If you’ve never sat bolt upright in bed at 3:17 a.m. convinced that you’ve missed a critical deadline, congratulations. You should bottle your secret and sell it to the rest of us — along with every...
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Five Bespoke Handbags that Scream Power Player
A brilliantly designed handbag is a shield, a satchel and a work of art. When you walk into a meeting and set it on the table, a gorgeously appointed bespoke purse speaks in a strong, proud voice and...
View ArticleFive Tech Options to Make Your Law Firm Easier to Contact
It’s no secret that if you make it easier for people to reach you using their preferred method, you’re going to get more contacts — ones that could convert to clients. Today, this is especially true of...
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10 Minutes with Legal Tech Entrepreneur Nehal Madhani
When Nehal Madhani left his practice at Kirkland & Ellis four years ago, he set out to create an online marketplace to connect lawyers and businesses. First, he learned to code. “I wanted to...
View ArticleHow Lawyers Can Use Client Data to Grow Their Practices
Lawyers hate math. At least most do. It’s why they became lawyers. Which means working with data isn’t appealing to most lawyers, either. But law practices are businesses, and these days, successful...
View ArticleHow Being Happy Is Contagious (and Why You’ll Live Longer)
I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about the attitudes people bring to work every day and how a positive or negative attitude affects how others perform their jobs — including how they serve...
View ArticleFive Tips to Improve Back-Office Processes
Are you contemplating streamlining, centralizing or outsourcing some or all of your law firm’s back-office functions? It’s an idea worth exploring. Improving basic processes and using the right...
View ArticleFive Ways to Leverage HARO for Media Coverage
Getting quoted in the media is one of the most effective ways for lawyers to raise their profile, gain credibility as a thought leader and attract clients. However, you may not have the time to...
View ArticleHow to Work the Room at Networking Events
After years of working with lawyers, I have concluded that the No. 1 most-despised marketing activity is attending a networking event. The list of things I’ve been told that lawyers would rather do...
View ArticlePath to a Successful Legal Career: Learn to Love the Process
A great deal has been said and written about the epidemic of the unhappy lawyer. Surveys suggest that career dissatisfaction among lawyers, and even rates of depression, are on the rise. According to...
View ArticleFive Ways to Network a Barbecue and Not Get Burned
As the school year ends and summer approaches, social schedules ramp up with graduation parties, barbecues, golf outings, baseball games and the like. At least some of these will be hosted by your...
View ArticleHow to Win the War for Lateral Talent
Hiring lateral partners and groups is a key component of success in today’s competitive law firm market. And while large firms get all the headlines for key coups, smaller firms have both more to gain...
View ArticleLoss of Control: Lawyers’ Greatest Fear
When lawyers are surveyed about what keeps them awake at night, their top issue is almost always a feeling that their offices or cases are out of control. It’s not just a fear. In my experience, for...
View ArticleAvoiding Dining Table Faux Pas
You’ve spent the whole conference trying to get close to that potential business source, and you’re finally going to sit together at a banquet table. Or maybe a meal at a fancy restaurant is part of...
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Auto-Filing Email: 5 Productivity Tips
Imagine if your email system could look like this at the end of your day (presuming your inbox is empty): This is more likely to happen if email lands in the right folder without you having to triage...
View ArticleStyle Guides: Maintaining a Healthy Relationship Between Creator and Content
Most of us have a generally good grasp of English usage and punctuation. The problem is that some usage and punctuation errors are so subtle and pervasive that we are tricked into thinking they are...
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