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Learn to Love Your Social Media Channels
So you’ve spent a year creating content. You’ve written articles, created a client newsletter, are active on a blog and comment thread on your bar association website. You publish and provide comments...
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A Pre-Year-End Checklist for Solos and Small Firms
As we approach the end of the year, it is a great time to run through your practice’s systems to see which ones may be ethics risks in their current state. This will help you prepare for an end-of-year...
View ArticleMake 2018 More Productive With This HBR Strategy
A few months back, Harvard Business Review published a terrific article titled “In a Distracted World, Solitude Is a Competitive Advantage.” The authors reference numerous sources, from Yoda (Star...
View ArticleNot If, But When, Your Fortune 500 Client Goes Out of Business
Well, now, there’s a radical notion, eh? Were you inclined to reject it out of hand as mere headline click-bait? Or did it make you think about that big client from whom you get most of your...
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Perfect Gifts for the Analog Attorney in Your Life
Buying gifts for the analog-leaning attorney in your life might seem like an impossible task. In a digital-forward gadget universe, finding something cool that doesn’t need batteries or a software...
View ArticleThree Quick Ways to Make Networking Part of Your Routine
You’ve heard it hundreds of times: You need to network! If you want to build your client base, get referrals, establish your brand and be a better lawyer, networking is required. But when you’re...
View ArticleYou Lost Me Right From the Start: Avoiding Communication Turn-offs
You’re articulate, right? You appreciate and emulate good legal writing. So why do you turn off so many listeners and readers so soon? In the film “Jerry Maguire,” Renee Zellweger as Dorothy Boyd tells...
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All Things Must Pass: ZokuVault Keeps It Organized
ZokuVault is a virtual safety deposit box for estate planning information. (See, it says so right on the website.) Which makes sense, because all the things people used to place in safety deposit boxes...
View ArticleAddicts Can Be High-Functioning: What Lawyers Need to Know
They say “work hard, play hard.” Unfortunately, this adage may normalize workplace behavior that can be very dangerous. In fact, a 2015 study found that workaholics are more likely to drink in excess...
View ArticleTips for Capturing Social Media Evidence
It turns out that sometimes you can believe what you see on the internet. Criminal defendants and civil litigants overshare on social media just like the rest of us. But heading into court, that...
View ArticleVideo: Assigning Shortcut Keys to Symbols in Microsoft Word
Inserting symbols like paragraph (∂), section (ß) or degree (∞) doesn’t have to involve digging through the Insert Symbols dialog box every time. Instead, make a shortcut key so you can insert the...
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Does Your Online Reputation Need Tending?
Sometimes lawyers and law firms need to clean up online reputations sullied by lawsuits, bad press, negative reviews or poor social media choices. While there’s no magic bullet, reputation management...
View ArticleTry a Little Tenderness
Seven years ago this month, Attorney at Work was born — unfurling the prospect of hundreds and hundreds of daily posts on law practice management issues of every variety. It was early days and the list...
View ArticleFive Best Fit Tips to Take into the New Year
Now is the time that we reflect on our successes and failures of the past year — both professionally and personally — and plan for the upcoming year, setting goals for ourselves, our firms and our...
View ArticleForecasting Top Website Design Trends for Law Firms in 2018
A couple of years ago, I wrote an Attorney at Work post on the top trends for law firm websites. The world of web development has seen some major changes since then. Today, it is a given that you will...
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Law Firm Website Trends to Watch in 2018
What website design and marketing trends will be worth your investment this year? We asked five experts, “What do you foresee as the biggest trends for law firm websites in 2018 — and what’s worth...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence for Legal Marketers
Several pundits declared 2017 “the year of artificial intelligence,” and with good reason. AI has entered our lives in so many ways, from how we interact with our phones to Amazon knowing what we’re...
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Kick Off the New Year With a Law Practice Renovation
In my December post, “A Pre-Year-End Checklist for Solos and Small Firms,” we ran through the major systems of a law practice and took stock of concerns to attend to in the new year. (If you missed it,...
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Need to Communicate Complicated Stuff? Talk About People
If you speak English and only English, does it make sense for me to explain something to you in French — even if I speak slowly? Of course not. While you probably never make this specific mistake with...
View ArticleProfanity in the Legal Workplace
Oh, balderdash! I just read that using profanity enhances team building in the workplace. Say what? Apparently, a vocabulary of four-letter words brands you as part of the “in” group in the information...
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