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If you haven’t cruised around the Colorado Secretary of State’s website lately, then I suggest you do. It’ll be worth your time. I do quite a bit of business law in my practice. Part of my new client enrollment checklist is to subscribe to notifications from the Colorado Secretary of State related to the client’s […]

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Growing up in Crested Butte, Colorado, I was no stranger to hard work, and, beginning at age 12 I worked as a dishwasher at the Elk Mountain Lodge and a chambermaid at the Forest Queen Hotel.  I worked through the school year, too. By the time I finally started practicing law, I’d also worked as […]

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Lawyers have been quick to embrace the iPad and its various applications (known as apps) for use in the workplace. This is not surprising, given that legal work generally is very document-intensive and the iPad decreases the number of physical documents the lawyer must carry around. The iPad also enables lawyers to search through documents […]

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Earlier this month, the CBA introduced its members to the New Casemaker. This is Casemaker’s substantial upgrade from its 2.2 version research service. With enhanced performance capabilities and exciting new features, the New Casemaker further simplifies the way you research. It makes conducting a search, narrowing your results, and organizing your work easier than ever. […]

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In this business, it seems that both insurance and plaintiff’s lawyers spend much of their time focusing on which side has the most persuasive expert. For instance, in a contested liability car crash, both sides may end up hiring accident reconstructionists to opine as to the forces that a plaintiff would have experienced in a […]

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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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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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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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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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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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