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Sam Glover

Lexmark Platinum Pro905 “SmartSolutions” All-in-One

September 2, 2010

Lexmark has identified lawyers as a great fit for its SmartSolutions line of printers and all-in-ones, so it sent me its Platinum Pro905 all-in-one inkjet to try. The SmartSolutions line of printers and all-in-ones is basically an attempt to turn your printer into an iPhone. Which turns out to be surprisingly useful, actually. Overall, the [...]

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Potential Clients Don’t Care Where You Went To Law School

August 27, 2010

Your Clients Don’t Care Where You Went to Law School | the [non]billable hour

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LegalZoom Goes After Estate Planning Lawyer Tyler White

August 26, 2010

LegalZoom recently took Lawyerist LAB-member Tyler White to task for his post criticizing the LegalZoom’s disclaimer. Tyler pointed out that LegalZoom provides a lot of legal forms of dubious value for very little money, but disclaims all responsibility for the harm they may do. For starters, LegalZoom points out that it is not even a [...]

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Webinar: Free and Open Source Software for your Law Practice

August 10, 2010

Thursday, August 12th, 2010, at 3 p.m. CDT. The best things in life are free. Sam will talk about what free and open-source software is (and the difference between the two), and demonstrate some of the free and/or open-source software he uses to keep his law firm running. Sam will show you how to encrypt [...]

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Go Paperless: Designing Your Paperless Workflow

August 10, 2010

Let’s say you’ve taken my advice and bought a ScanSnap or some other document scanner. Now, how will you go about turning all that paper that comes into your law firm into digital bits? First, decide what you want to make digital. All your files, or just your archives?

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Webinar: Alt. Billing, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Lawyering

July 22, 2010

At 12:00 pm CDT tomorrow, that is, Friday, July 23rd, 2010, we will be re-playing our epically-titled webinar on alternative billing and fee arrangements: My law firm has evolved from a mostly-hourly-billing practice five years ago to a no-hourly-billing practice today. We use flat fees and a subscription model, as well as unbundled services and [...]

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