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The paperless law office: easier than you think

July 3, 2009

I have had a paperless law office since early 2006, when I bought my first ScanSnap document scanner and started scanning every page that crossed my desk. That—and a bit of planning—is really all it takes to go paperless.
There seems to be a tendency to think of digital files as fundamentally different than paper files. [...]

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Summer associate programs facing extinction?

May 21, 2009

The past months have been an endless parade of bad news for associates in big law firms between layoffs and deferred start dates for new hires. One recent ABA article discussed the impending collision between associates deferred from this fall and those scheduled to start in 2010.
This traffic jam, combined with the continuing financial pressure [...]

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Law firm website best practices

May 11, 2009

Law firm websites should serve two purposes: (1) they should make it easy for potential clients to find the law firm; and (2) they should make a good impression so that potential clients become paying clients.
To do those things well, it pays to follow a few ground rules, whether you are working with a designer [...]

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Blueprint for a better profession

April 3, 2009

The New York Times supposes that the silver lining to the mass layoffs at law firms across the company may be that “the legal world may be inspired to draw blueprints for the 21st century.” The Times editors’ imagination of what those blueprints may look like, however, is pretty much limited to salaries, fees, and [...]

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Upcoming CLE seminars

May 18, 2008

I am teaching six continuing legal education seminars in the next three months, with a couple more under discussion. My presentations tend to be engaging (I don’t have the patience for boring presentations even when I am giving them), informative, and well-attended. Register early!

June 6th at noon. The Paperless Office, 1 hour webcast, $75. Register [...]

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Optimizing your web site for potential clients

May 5, 2008

here is a lot of talk about optimizing web sites for search engines, but what about optimizing your web site for potential clients?
Search-engine optimization (SEO) is about making it easy for a search engine to index your page. The easier it is for Google to figure out that you are a family lawyer in Minnesota, [...]

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Kristi Weikel on marketing a general practice, small firm

May 2, 2008

Every Friday for the next few weeks I will be posting interviews with solo and small firm attorneys who talked to me about their marketing strategies, online and offline, high tech and old school. Of course, I also asked about the tools they use to manage their practice. If you are interested in being interviewed, [...]

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