Solo Tip Tuesday: Get a Second Screen with the Air Display App

April 10, 2012

If you’ve never used two monitors, you’re missing out on a great productivity tool. After using two monitors for so many years, it would be very hard for me to go back to just one monitor. One of the things I miss most when I travel is the ability to use a second monitor. Enter […]

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Vote for Your Peeps in the Law

April 6, 2012

An indelible signal that spring is here is the stacking of pastel marshmallows shaped as birds and bunnies onto supermarket shelves. But, locally and nationally, people like to play with their Peeps. You may have seen The Denver Post’s Peeps Diorama Contest, but did you know there’s a Peep’s diorama contest with a law slant? […]

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What to Do After an Auto Collision—At the Hospital

April 5, 2012

When you get to the hospital after an auto collision, be sure to give a complete and accurate medical history to the doctor and nurse.  Include any injuries from previous car accidents, worker’s compensation claims, or other previous injuries.  When speaking to a doctor, try to distinguish the differences between the pain and injuries caused […]

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Client Testimonials in a Wired World

April 4, 2012

Here is another post on the topic of the future of solos or small firms who don’t have it in their budget to outsource a social media manager. Ed Poll of LawBiz Management recently posted an interesting article, “Testimonials Still Are Not a Good Idea” about why he still does not use client testimonials as […]

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Solo Tip Tuesday: Use Print Preview to Avoid Printing Unnecessary Pages

April 3, 2012

Printing from a Web page can be frustrating because you never know what’s actually going to print. You might get 10 sheets with each frame on a separate page, have two inches of text cut off on one side, find out that it prints eight pages, when you only wanted the information on page three, […]

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ABA TECHSHOW 2012: The Future of Solo Lawyering Foretold?

March 30, 2012

The ABA TECHSHOW is in full swing In Chicago (our own Reba Nance is attending, as is CBA Solo and Small Firm Past-Chair Jim Duve) and I couldn’t resist the urge to comment on Rachel Zahorsky’s post “The Future of Law: Old Fashioned Client Relationships and Warnings for Solos.” The TECHSHOW’s kickoff event,“LexThink.1: The Future […]

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Conflict Resolution Month is Coming in October

March 30, 2012

This week, the Colorado General Assembly unanimously adopted a joint resolution endorsing October as Conflict Resolution Month. For the fourth year in a row, Sen. Linda Newell, D-Littleton, sponsored the resolution in the state Senate and Rep. Bob Gardner, R-Colorado Springs, sponsored it in the House. Colorado Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section members Lucia Lamprey, […]

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One Law Student’s Choice to Go Solo

March 29, 2012

I didn’t grow up in a family of lawyers or have any exposure to the legal profession in either my formative or young adult years.  If you had asked me in high school where I would be at age 29, being a third-year law student in Denver, would be the last place I would have […]

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Women-Owned Law Firm Gathering a Hoot (and Howl)

March 28, 2012

WOLF Pack at the Tea Room was a blast! This was our first ever outing as a “pack” and the lovely sisters Margo Seymour and Arlene Guillen at the Denver Tea Room served us a fabulous tea.  There were an even dozen in our pack for the evening, just about the right  number.  We were […]

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Solo Tip Tuesday: Change the Default Folder to Save Documents in Word

March 27, 2012

By default, Word tries to save new documents in your “My Documents” folder on your C drive. Using the same logic, when you click on “Open” to open an existing document, it assumes the document is saved in the “My Documents” folder. Many of us (if not the majority) want to save documents somewhere other […]

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