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Project Management: Can Asana Deliver Despite Its Flaws?
Computer scientist Tony Hoare said, “There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to make it so complicated, there are no...
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The Perfect Pencil, the Perfect Pen
Like you, I take a lot of notes in my professional life. Over the years I’ve developed silly obsessions with the quality of Ampad legal pads and National Brand 33-004 notebooks. But I never thought...
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Running With the Experts: Takeaways From the 2017 Futures Conference
Last week in Atlanta, the College of Law Practice Management’s (COLPM) 2017 Futures Conference, “Running With the Machines,” explored the current state of artificial intelligence in law practice — and...
View ArticleFive Tips for Keeping Referrals Flowing
Lawyers often pursue new clients at the expense of servicing and marketing to existing clients. This is a mistake. It’s also a mistake to pursue new referral sources at the expense of your existing...
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The Death of Capitalization
It started with the iPod, the iPad and the iPhone. Capital letters appeared in places they never appeared before. Grammar rules call for capitalizing proper names, but now the correct reference to some...
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Ethically Outsourcing Social Media Management
It’s a given that you need to delegate or outsource some tasks if you want to grow as a firm. There are only so many hours in a day, and if you try to do absolutely everything yourself, it will mean...
View ArticleE-Signatures in Adobe PDFs
A few years ago, I interviewed Mike Dillon, general counsel at Adobe Systems. Dillon chuckled over how, before coming to Adobe, he’d had to sign stacks of documents each week using “wet ink” (his...
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What’s Really Wrong With Your Law Firm’s Website?
It really doesn’t matter how much money and time go into your law practice’s website. You’ll likely always be left wondering if it is actually doing the job you need it to do — and if not, what the...
View ArticleThree Smart Year-End Money Moves
Think back 10 or 11 months … remember your New Year’s financial resolutions? Save more, spend less, be smarter with taxes, and construct a succession plan for your practice — we all made them. Then,...
View ArticleDisrespectful Clients Don’t Get to Stay Clients
You know what feels good? Firing a client. My firm was hired to help a client with multiple applications for registering their intellectual property. We tell every client there’s no guarantee that...
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Lawyers and LinkedIn Skills and Endorsements
With more than 500 million members in 200 countries, LinkedIn continues to be the dominant social networking site for lawyers. Research from Greentarget confirms its use by 73 percent of in-house...
View ArticleFive Ways to Prioritize Your Legal Tech Investments (and Get the Most Bang...
Law firms are under constant pressure to adopt new, improved technology so they can increase productivity and provide better client service. Yet budgets rarely increase with the speed of technology...
View ArticleIn Search of a Perfect Record: The Price of Trying to Be ‘The Best’
In the competitive world of law, it is not uncommon to feel (consciously or unconsciously) that failure is not an option. However, the quest for perfection is a double-edged sword. While striving...
View ArticleWriting Your Annual Business Development Plan
This is the time of year when many law firms require their lawyers to develop a personal marketing or business development plan. Even if it is not required, most lawyers start thinking about their...
View ArticleGird Yourself for the Holiday Season!
The winter holidays draw nigh. The time has come to gird your loins and make provision for the breathless marathon ahead. To that end, we dedicate this post to the proposition that, “He who is best...
View ArticleFive Tax Benefits to Working From a Home Office
Some lawyers choose to limit overhead by working from home. They may arrange for supplemental virtual services and conference room access. While not every practice area may lend itself to working from...
View ArticleLaw Firm’s Guide to a Low-Risk Holiday Party
I know, I know — another cautionary tale about law firm holiday parties. We all know the drill: Have fun, but not too much. Keep in mind the party — whether it includes staff, spouses or clients — is a...
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For a Young Associate, Practice Makes Perfect
Across professions, there is a process to mastery. Hard work and perseverance don’t guarantee success, but it’s almost impossible to achieve success without them. This is particularly true in the legal...
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Pay-Per-Click Tips to Boost Your Law Firm’s Leads
Pay-per-click, PPC, paid search — these terms might be familiar to you. Perhaps you’ve even tried Google AdWords but found this digital marketing channel unsuccessful. Usually, that is due to a poorly...
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Best Ways to Upgrade Your Technology in 2018
What’s on your tech to-do list for next year? Maybe you’ve resolved to get more organized, go paperless once and for all, or move all of your practice systems to the cloud. Could be you’re dreaming of...
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