productivity

The Importance of Tuning Out

August 30, 2010

Smartphones, email, social media marketing and laptops have made people tethered to the digital realm. I am about as big a technology user as you will find, but I also realize the importance of tuning out and unplugging.

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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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Outsourcing Series, Part 3: How To Find and Hire A Contract Attorney

August 9, 2010

This is the third, and the last article in a series about outsourcing. We’ve looked at the benefits of outsourcing and what tasks can be outsourced. Now it’s time to find someone.

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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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Make Quick Phone Calls with Slydial

August 4, 2010

Most lawyers are busy, make that very busy. Sometimes you need to get a message to a person, but feel time-crunched, and not real interested in having a conversation. Slydial can help you shorten your phone calls.

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Outsourcing Series, Part 2: What Tasks You Can Outsource

August 2, 2010

In this second part of a three-part series on outsourcing, we’ll focus on what tasks are best for outsourcing to a contract attorney. While it is possible to outsource almost any legal matter, you must make sure that your client is in the know. If your client expects you to personally handle the work, or [...]

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