Lisa Solomon is tech savvy. I learn from her everytime we’re together.
We went to dinner while in Chicago this last week and she took several photographs. Here are two of them that are listed on Facebook, one of the sprouting social networks. One should be careful what is placed on internet boards such as this … This entry is sedate and trustworthy. This is the first posting for me, excluding our Airstream trailer, of photos on this site.
During the ABA TechShow, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Rob of LexBlog.
On a listserv recently, a lawyer requested comments about his proposed letter to his clients. He wants to "shout from the highest roof" (from an old Doris Day film) to his clients that he plans to maintain his current fee structure, that he will NOT raise his fee rates. I responded as follows: (more…)
At the ABA Show, one product continues to impress me … Fujitsu’s ScanSnap. Model 501 is their desktop model … it’s outstanding. See my podcast with Derek Flower of Fujitsu, talking about the features and benefits of this unit.
At the Tech Show, I got to see the new portable unit, Model #300 …. It is sooooo small, light and priced right. Consider buying this if scanning on the road can benefit your practice.
At its annual technology fest in Chicago, the American Bar Association’s Law Practice Management Section once again displays its value to the legal profession … and its skill in throwing a great party.
As I walked around the Hilton Hotel, the new site for the show, I met many folks that I have known for years and some new folks as well. It is in these walks around the Exhibit Hall and elsewhere at the Show that I learn the most.
Once again, though, I realize that it’s the people you know that is the most important element to growing one’s business … Competence is presumed. But, when people like and trust you, they will help you grow, they will teach you valuable lessons about your business … and they make it a joy to attend conferences such as this. And, if they happen to be customers/clients of you, they will be loyal to you, you will be able to count on their business for your firm’s growth.
Our new book will go to press in two weeks: Law Firm Fees & Compensation: Value & Growth Dynamics — A LawBiz Special Report
Stay tuned for the official press release.
If you are salaried staff and not paid by the hour, and if the 29th day of February falls on a weekday, are you working that day for free?
Once every four years, we receive the opportunity to make a gift to our employers. Do you think they appreciate it? <g>
The legal market is not known – yet – for embracing innovation. And the life of a law practice management innovator can be lonely. That can and will change…
The College of Law Practice Management (of which I am a member) sponsors the InnovAction Award, which is designed to identify and honor innovation in law practice management.
If you are in a law firm, inhouse department, or other law practice (not for vendors) that has done something innovative – whether with technology or otherwise – the College asks you to take a moment to review the InnovAction web site and consider submitting an application.
Gretchen Neels and Ed talk about the new civility movement in the legal profession and how the 3, sometimes 4, generations of lawyers in the same workplace need to become more aware of their differences in order to remain profitable and provide expected client services.
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Karen Mathis, immediate past chair of the American Bar Association, focused her year on developing a new awareness for the legal profession. She said recently that 400,000 lawyers will retire in the next 10 years. That’s the entire current membership of the ABA!