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Studies show the average law firm spends upwards of 30 percent of its time creating documents, most of which are repetitive. This area should be low-hanging fruit for improving productivity. The problem has been that most solutions are expensive, complex, and time consuming to install, learn, and program. TheFormTool has changed all that. There is […]

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Please answer this one question! Hint: If you think you need to ask IT, the answer is no. A few weeks ago, I got into a bit of a tiff with another writer about whether lawyers should be encrypting their email with clients to meet their ethical obligations. The writer works for Zix Corporation, an […]

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On your mark, get set … WHAT you’re not going to venture onward with the rest of us?  It’s not like Colorado lawyers are at the forefront of the social media adoption wave, because we’re not.  Other states and state bars are way ahead of us – like Florida lawyers, and the Florida and Texas […]

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Come on Barb – Supernatural Aid ? I know, I’ll go to any lengths to get people’s attention!  I was thinking that, once my biz page got the requisite 30 “likes,” meaning I achieved my “EdgeRank” minimum (see the definition here), and I have access to “insights about my activity,” well, I thought it sounded rather […]

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I recently found an area of law that I never knew existed: local counsel.  Before moving to Denver, everything for me was local.  I grew up in Chicago, went to school in Chicago, and worked in Chicago.  My blood pumps celery salt, mustard, and sport peppers.  But then something changed.  I met a girl, got […]

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Wondering why I’m still writing these? Well, have a look at the picture … we haven’t even reached the abyss yet! I’m still writing these posts, so I haven’t refused the call yet … wait – What is that ringing in my ears? Back to the narrative for this hero’s journey: Net Smart.  Author Howard […]

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Avvo is a free online directory of lawyers that the public can use to search by state and practice area. You may be asking yourself, isn’t that basically the business White Pages, or the bar association’s Find-A-Lawyer directory, or Martindale-Hubbell revisited? Pretty much. A lawyer’s Avvo profile is essentially an online résumé or portfolio that […]

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In honor of National Pro Bono Week, Solo in Colo’s Barb Cashman Hahn has interviewed Colorado attorneys about why they provide pro bono legal services. Below, in the third and final video interview, Barb again sits down with Metro Volunteer Lawyers Executive Director Dianne Van Voorhees and Denver attorney Kevin Keyes to discuss how volunteering benefits […]

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The day before “discovering” the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus did something rather modern. He called a meeting. The trip to dry land had been longer than either Columbus or his crew had expected, and he was facing the real possibility of mutiny. He promised the crew that if they hadn’t discovered land within two days, […]

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Is it Thursday yet? Don’t forget we’ll be whetting our whistles and dishing about the blawgosphere on Thursday, July 28, at Jonesy’s EatBar.This is a great chance to network with contributors of SOLO in COLO and other local bloggers. And, hopefully we’ll  find out what you think about SOLO in COLO and all those other […]

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