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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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Don’t these titles seem to be getting more dramatic sounding as we proceed through the Hero’s Journey? Indeed – in this portion of our journey (yes, remember it’s “how a solo attorney can venture into the wide world of Facebook, overcome fear and obstacles, gain useful insight and skills and emerge triumphant” – just in […]

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As a federal wine importer whose wines are distributed in Colorado, I’ve learned on the battlefields of commerce just how “user unfriendly” the Colorado three-tier state alcohol regulatory system under Article 47 Title 12 of the Colorado Revised Statutes can be. America has 50 separate regulatory regimes governing liquor and vinous spirits sales, from wine […]

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In the last post we crossed the threshold, which means we have finally committed to “the journey.”  Now we face certain obstacles, remember Homer’s “Odyssey”– or maybe you’re thinking of the more current rendition of it,  “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” So – away we go!  Let’s look at some of our “tests” first.  Unlike […]

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