How to Enjoy Your Hard-earned Fees: Exploring Barolo, Italy

July 9, 2012

Last month I wrote about the regulatory obstacle course wine producers and importers have to navigate to sell their product in Colorado.  In deciding what to write this month, I thought perhaps I’d give some suggestions on how my colleagues can spend their hard-earned fees on a relaxing gastronomic trip to Piemonte, Italy, the source […]

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Solo Tip Tuesday: Tech Help from Gadgetwise

June 26, 2012

The New York Times has a great blog on personal technology called Gadgetwise.  I highly recommend it.  According to their website:  “Gadgetwise is a blog about everything related to buying and using tech products. From figuring out which gadget to buy and how to get the best deal on it to configuring it once it’s […]

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The Google-Powered Law Office: Quick Tips for Gmail and Word Processing

June 25, 2012

On June 29, Carole Levitt and Mark Rosch, internationally recognized Internet trainers and authors of five American Bar Association books, will be in the CBA-CLE classroom to show you how super-charging your Google search strategies will assist you in your discovery and trial preparation needs, in addition to locating missing persons and successfully completing transactions. […]

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Finding Efficiency in a Solo or Small Firm

June 22, 2012

One of the hardest parts of being a solo attorney is all the non-lawyering tasks that have to be accomplished on a day-to-day basis. What’s worse is we can’t bill clients for that time. It’s not just me that sees this as a problem for solo lawyers: LexisNexis recently released a survey indicating solo and […]

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The Joys of the Double Monitor

June 21, 2012

Few things make me happier than a double monitor. If I had my druthers, I would set my office up to mirror the docking stations in “The Matrix.” I would have 15 screens with scrolling green letters and numbers … The legend of the quad-monitor is quietly whispered throughout the halls of Micro Center and […]

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Choosing Clients Wisely

June 20, 2012

While your livelihood as an attorney depends on having clients, not all clients are good clients. Most client problems can be avoided by choosing clients more carefully. Regardless of the size of your practice, despite what you may think, you will save time and maximize your profit potential by developing and implementing an easy five-step […]

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Solo Tip Tuesday: Don’t Just Copy and Paste; Collect and Paste

June 19, 2012

You probably already know that you can use the “cut and paste” feature in Microsoft Word to copy one set of text to another place, but if you want to select several different pieces of text to cut and paste, it’s much easier to copy each snippet of text at once and have Word save […]

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Facebook Chronicles: The Ordeal

June 19, 2012

Whoa, we’re still in the cave, and now it’s ogre time! Or not. But this is no cake walk; in fact, the definition of ordeal is “a difficult or painful experience, especially one that severely tests character or endurance.” Sounds pretty mythic in proportion, no? Let’s get started – this is about taking “networking” to […]

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Solo Tip Tuesday: Double-Click to Start Typing Anywhere on a Word Doc

June 12, 2012

Microsoft Word has a very cool feature you may not know about. You can type anywhere in a document by simply moving your cursor to that exact place, double-clicking, and then typing. You don’t need to press <Enter> to skip lines, you don’t need to press <Tab> to move over, nor do you need to […]

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Who’s Afraid of LegalZoom?

June 12, 2012

Not this solo in Colo. A recent blog post titled “LegalZoom’s War on GPs and Solos” by Larry Bodine on his LawMarketing Blog commented on LegalZoom’s recent IPO filing. Larry stated that LegalZoom “is capitalizing on consumers’ willingness to buy cheap, do-it-yourself forms as opposed to paying a lawyer to do the job right in […]

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