Practice Smart.
From the monthly archives:
Let me start by saying that I am as big a fan of digital communication as anyone. Email, instant messenger, SMS text messages — I like it all. It’s good to have options.
That said, I know a lot of lawyers out there struggle with digital overload, particularly in their email in-boxes. (As an aside, Getting [...]
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According to Steve Matthews, the blogging brain behind Law Firm Web Strategy, the number of lawyers on LinkedIn (the professional social networking site) is up to 216,000. That number belies the incredible rate at which lawyers are jumping on board very recently. By Steve’s measure (piggybacking on a search done in April by [...]
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That famous bromide is often quoted by marketing and publicity-minded folks. (Notably, they frequently leave off the end of that quote from Irish author Brendan Behan, who said “there is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.”) It’s probably cheerier without that addendum.
The point is a good one, though, and important to [...]
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Yousendit, an online file transfer utility, has produced a free plug-in for Outlook to allow for file transfer integration right out of Outlook.
Why should you care? Many law firm email programs have a fairly low maximum attachment size for email attachments. If users try to send or receive email attachments larger than the [...]
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Sometimes clients behave in annoying ways.
I know — this is a ground-breaking, earth-shaking revelation. Any lawyer who has represented clients knows that client behavior can be an unrewarding part of practicing law.
But have you ever stopped to consider whether you are contributing to the annoying behavior? Even if only by a fault of [...]
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