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Teaching Makes You a Better Lawyer

January 19, 2010

As lawyers, we teach all the time. Legal practice requires that we learn, analyze, teach and persuade. We teach juries, judges, clients, adverse parties, and colleagues. A good lawyer is a good teacher. If you enjoy the teaching part of practice, pursue teaching opportunities, whether as an adjunct professor of law or a regular on the [...]

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MCLE webcast: Starting a Law Firm

July 22, 2009

Send questions to @lawyerist from 9-11 CST, or by commenting on this post.
Eric Cooperstein and I are teaching a two-hour webcast CLE tomorrow on starting a law firm. We will cover business forms, technology, ethics, marketing, practice management, and much more.
Anyone can attend; the webcast will be streamed live, and you can ask questions during [...]

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Websites for dummies: build your own website in about an hour

September 9, 2008

I am still amazed by the number of attorneys who still do not have their own website. In the interest of fixing this problem, I have been kicking around a seminar idea. I think I can walk a complete novice through creating a law firm website from scratch using WordPress.com in about an hour.
The idea [...]

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The Paperless Office: audio from Duluth SoloSmall conference

August 13, 2008

The video recording I made did not turn out all that well, so instead I am posting the audio. Since my slides are demonstrative rather than substantive, you should be able to follow along just fine without the visuals. It is about 30 minutes long, so grab a cup of coffee or tea and enjoy [...]

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