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Mental Health and the Law

February 10, 2010

Guest post by Gregory A. Mattacola.
Attorney mental health is an important issue for lawyers to address as part their practice. A lawyer today need only perform a cursory scan of his or her mail and e-mail to be hit with all the various areas one supposedly needs to manage in order to be an effective [...]

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Stop Bashing BigLaw

October 26, 2009

As I surf around the blawgosphere, I have noticed that it seems to be in vogue for solo and small firm attorneys to take potshots at large law firms. If one read only the solo blawgs, it would seem all large law firms are lumbering, inefficient, selfish behemoths, so knocked off balance by this recession [...]

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Lawyers Must Evolve or Face Extinction

October 15, 2009

The ABA’s Legal Rebels project is designed to highlight some dynamic players in what sometimes looks like a stagnant, stubborn profession. Here is an excerpt from my own essay for the 24 Hours of Rebels event:
There is little imagination in the practice of law. From BigLaw to SmallLaw, most practices look just like the next. [...]

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24 Hours of (Legal) Rebels

October 14, 2009

The ABA Journal kicks off its “24 Hours of Legal Rebels” this morning with an essay by Legal OnRamp’s Paul Lippe, a predictive survey of the 2011 legal landscape. Every hour, a new essay, interview, video, radio show, or something will go up, until your brain is full of ideas, predictions, problems, and more.
My own [...]

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LexisNexis’ new public interest program: just another marketing pitch?

May 5, 2009

Update: LexisNexis has expanded eligibility for its ASPIRE program to include all law school graduates pursuing public interest work, until September 2010.
LexisNexis has just kicked off registration for ASPIRE, a new program providing free access to a “robust menu of materials” including federal/state cases, codes, regulations, and law reviews to law school graduates working temporarily [...]

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Two states opt for sane lawyer advertising rules

March 6, 2009

Within recent days two states – Maine and Alabama– have turned back restrictive lawyer advertising proposals (first heard from the ABA’s Will Hornsby, who is now on twitter). Let’s hope it’s part of a trend.
Maine became another of the vast majority of states to adopt rules (effective Aug. 1, 2009) consistent with the ABA’s revised [...]

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A chicken in every pot, a scanner on every desk

September 26, 2008

When I got my first job out of college (back when God was a child) as a loan officer trainee at a big bank, computers (old Wang workstations) were only for secretaries. I suggested to my superiors that if I had a computer on my desk I could be much more efficient but that was [...]

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Be careful who your friends are

September 17, 2008

At Sam Glover’s behest, I have been experimenting with social networking sites such as Linked In and Facebook. Both sites urge you to find your “friends” and “connections” so that you can expand your network and uncover untold riches (they really are untold).
So you dutifully go about searching for people you know, inviting them to [...]

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MCLE webcast: Tech Tuesday: Free and Open-Source Software for Running the Whole Law Office

March 18, 2008

The description from Minnesota CLE:

Tech Tuesday: Free and Open-Source Software for Running the Whole Law Office
Presented by Presented by Samuel Glover; moderated by Todd Scott and Peter Berge
Tuesday, March 18, 2008, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. CST
1.0 law office management credit
Tuition: $75
Part of the ongoing “Tech Tuesday” webcast series, streaming the third Tuesday of most months.
The [...]

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