Fundamental iPad Tips for Lawyers
Once you unwrap your new iPad, master the most critical tap-and-swipe moves, and buy a few apps and iBooks, you’re pretty much set. It really is that easy. So easy that you may find you neglect any...
View ArticleFive Ways to Control Your Inbox
In my first two posts (“How We Get Things Done” and “Boost Your Productivity: The Five Phases of GTD”), I talked about how to gain more time in your day and become more productive by leveraging a time...
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Advice? I Hate Talking to Reporters
Question: I hate talking to reporters. You just never know how they might use your words against you. Is there a good way to avoid talking to them without sounding like an ass? Brian Hickey: An...
View ArticleTighten Your Writing: Heed the Six Signs
“Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no...
View ArticleWriting an Ebook: What I Learned
Have you been thinking about writing a book? It can be a fantastic marketing tool that sets you apart from the pack—and you can leverage it to get media attention for your area of expertise. In the...
View Article999 Things Lawyers Should Know About Marketing
Just kidding with the 999—though we could easily report on hundreds of ideas exchanged at the Legal Marketing Association Annual Conference this week in Las Vegas. More than 1,300 legal marketing...
View ArticleSearching Social Media
Social media. A familiar topic for me, and a staple now at ABA TECHSHOW. I’d be remiss if I didn’t say I walked into the session, “Social Media as Information Gathering Tool,” a skeptic last week....
View ArticleIs Email Obsolete?
Maybe it’s time to accept that email just wasn’t designed to do all the things we try to get it to do. Like manage projects and files, share documents or (groan) schedule meetings. It’s not just that...
View ArticleBe Enthusiastic
Anyone who knows me (or follows me on Twitter) knows that I love sports, particularly my beloved Golden Gophers. So it should come as no surprise that I watched the press conference with our new men’s...
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Do Lawyers Still Need Business Cards?
Question: What’s the current thinking on business cards? They seem like an anachronism in a digital world. But without them, I don’t know how I’d invite someone to contact me. What do lawyers “in the...
View ArticleLegal Management Tips for Changing Times
You never stop learning. And with so many big conferences this time of year, there’s no shortage of opportunities. This week the Association of Legal Administrators held its 2013 Annual Conference and...
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Guard Your Blog Against WordPress Attacks
If you use WordPress for your blog or law firm website, you may know that this month the WordPress community faced perhaps its largest brute force attack. Reports around the web confirmed a large...
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