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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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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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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