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Practice Management

Tuesday Tip: MILO for Mac User Group

December 22, 2009

If you are using Mac computers in your law firm and haven’t found MILO keep reading. MILO is the Mac In Law Offices group on Google Groups, an online “place for attorneys and other professionals to learn and share information to more effectively use Macs in law offices. We encourage open discussions, [...]

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Tuesday Tip: Customizing How Headers and Footers Print on Webpages

December 8, 2009

You may have noticed that the printout of your Web pages is missing the date it was printed, or maybe the URL has been truncated so you can’t read it.
Internet Explorer lets you decide what you want to print in the header and footer on Web pages, or you can tell it to print nothing [...]

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Predictions: How will the law firm model be different in 2015?

December 4, 2009

Yesterday, LexisNexis sponsored a debate on the the legal industry’s future: “Evolution or Revolution? The Future of the Law Firm Business Model.”
Longtime legal blogger Bob Ambrogi attended and shared some great nuggets via Twitter, including these wide-ranging answers to the same question:
In 2015, what’s different?

Law firms are smaller (Richard N. Baer, EVP, general counsel and [...]

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Tuesday Tip: Return to Where You Left off in Microsoft Word with No Scrolling

November 24, 2009

Here’s a quick tip that can come in handy when you’re working on a large Word document over the course of several days or sessions.
If you want to reopen the document and return to working where you last left off, there’s no need to scroll down through the document to find the section you last [...]

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Tuesday Tip: Color-Coding Incoming Outlook Messages by Sender

November 17, 2009

Coloring incoming messages makes it much easier to see messages from important people, like your managing partner, best client or significant other! Here’s how to color-code incoming messages by sender:
Highlight any message from the important person
-        Choose Tools from the main Outlook menu bar
-        Choose Organize from the drop down menu
-        Click on Using Colors [...]

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Tuesday Tip: Adding Outlook Contacts Who Belong to the Same Company

November 10, 2009

[Editor's Note: Those of you who are members of the Colorado Bar Association or who have attended a law practice management program taught by Reba Nance need no introduction to her. Over the years, she has helped countless lawyers manage their practices. We're excited to feature her tips on Tuesdays in this new series.]
If you [...]

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Google Yourself Early and Often… But Make Google Alerts Do All the Work

October 23, 2009

I’m sure you’ve heard the advice: Google yourself. It wasn’t so long ago that people thought only those with inflated egos would dare to do so, but today the practice is common. And why not? You probably Google everything else, from books to vacation spots to restaurants. The next logical conclusion is that potential clients [...]

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May It Please the Court: SCOTUS Is Back in Session

October 5, 2009

Court is in today and we’ll see no shortage of marquee issues with cases on campaign financing, gun rights, and Sarbanes-Oxley.
If you’re keen on tracking cases, you have a few great options:
1. SCOTUSblog
This has been my long-time resource for all things SCOTUS. For several years, this group of attorneys has been churning out commentary, analysis [...]

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Anonymous, Negative Reviews Raise Ire Among Lawyers

September 24, 2009

Have you ever reviewed a product on Amazon or another online site? Perhaps it was a book you loved or a kitchen gadget that broke the first time you tried it.
Have you ever based a purchase decision on the online reviews made by others?
Well, now clients can both review you and decide whether to hire [...]

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“I don’t care that you just took a shower.”

September 24, 2009

Yesterday, I attended a DBA event on branding yourself. The speaker talked a bit about social networking as a tool, no different than traditional networking, to build your personal brand. Near the end, a young lawyer in attendance raised her hand and said she still didn’t quite get social media and, referring to the oft-mocked [...]

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