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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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Going Paperless? Avoid these Common Mistakes

August 6, 2010

Guest post by Brooks Duncan. So, you want to go paperless. Whatever your reasons for taking the plunge, why not let others make the mistakes so that you don’t have to? Here are six of the most common mistakes that I see people make when trying to go paperless.

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How to Write a Client Engagement Letter For A Virtual Law Practice

August 3, 2010

Writing a good client engagement letter can be more complicated when you run a virtual law practice and will be delivering legal services online. Incorporating the use of technology by your firm into the provisions of an engagement letter is important to provide the client with notice of how you will communicate and handle their [...]

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Be Prepared For Catastrophe

July 22, 2010

Whether or not your firm is partially paperless, or totally paperless, you need to be prepared for what to do if your power goes out, or even something worse. If you office is in shambles, can your law firm still function?

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What I Use to Manage My Practice [Update 2]

July 20, 2010

I first talked about the tools I use to manage my law practice in April 2008. I updated the list of my practice software and tools in February 2009, and it seems like a good time to do so again. Since the last update, my firm has gained one attorney employee and three independent contractors, [...]

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Droid Makes Mobile Blogging Easy

June 22, 2010

While it might not be that “newsworthy,” this is my first experience blogging from my cell phone. I recently switched from a Blackberry Pearl to a Motorola Droid.

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