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There’s Positive Stress and Then There’s the Other Kind.

11 Thursday Aug 2016

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Bullying, Employment Law, Harassment, Law Office Management, Marketing, Office Procedures

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Celeste Duke, Diversity Insight Blog, Law Office Management, Workplace Bullying

Stress at Work: Defining the Line Between Motivation and an Abusive Workplace, by Celeste Duke, Diversity Insight Blog

http://bit.ly/29Nja5b

Regardless of whether you are a lawyer or legal professional, if you have been out there for a while, you have run into a “bad” boss. They are described in different ways – bully, perfectionist, bi-polar, belittling, and just plain unpleasant – but they are all accomplish at least one thing. They chase off good employees, and make an associates’ and staff’s miserable.

Many rules in a law office may not make sense to the uninitiated. Usually strict rules accompanied with micro-management are a red flag. New hires will likely inherit left over residue from a former employee who abused the rules so badly and frequently that management adopted more restrictive rules. It doesn’t matter that the bad apple is no longer there. New employees are stuck with jumping through the hoop actually designed for a former employee.

If you are interviewing and the office manager asks whether you mind working with difficult people, that is clearly a red flag. Ask why a position is open. Often, when all other things are equal, someone who works for a good boss rarely leaves a job.

If you have a boss who is truly making you miserable or has made it clear you are as far up the ladder as you will go, it doesn’t hurt to polish up your resume and stick your toe in the water. As a good friend once said that, when it comes to job hunting, you can always shop but you don’t have to buy.

If you have found that the nice prospective boss in the interview has turned into an extremely difficult tyrant, of course you have options. But, to be on the safe side, you may want to polish your resume and start putting out feelers. There is a difference between positive stress and the extremely destructive kind. Before this boss has destroyed any self-confidence you have left, get out of there.

Happily, not all attorney supervisors believe that intimidation and abusive behavior is the best way to encourage quality work and employees. Some people even thing that positive reinforcement, team work, and mutual respect and consideration actually improve employee performance and enhance the firm’s overall quality. What a concept! – CCE

In the movie Glengarry Glen Ross, Blake is a trainer sent by corporate to motivate a sales team. In addition to offering helpful gems like the acronym ABC to remind the salesmen that they should ‘always be closing,’ he repeatedly berates them and calls them names while bragging about his own success. He tells the team about a new sales competition that week: First place gets a Cadillac, second place gets a set of steak knives, and third place gets fired.

We hope you have never had a boss like Blake, but it’s likely that you recognize shades of his character in past managers, coworkers, or even a current manager in your organization. You want managers to push employees to do good work and get the best results for the company, but it can be hard to know how far is too far. During his ‘motivational’ speech, Blake asks one salesman, ‘You think this is abuse?’ As it turns out, it just might be, and this could be a new frontier in employee claims.

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App Honey Pot for Lawyers and Other Legal Professionals.

13 Saturday Feb 2016

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Apps, Clouds, Document Retention, Dropbox, Evernote, Google, Law Office Management, Legal Technology, Management, Marketing, Office Procedures, Technology, Time Management

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Apps, Document Storage, Dropbox, E-Discovery, Law Office Management, Legal Productivity Blog, Marketing, Note Taking, Tim Baran

50+ Apps and Services to Manage and Grow Your Law Practice, by Tim Baran, Legal Productivity Blog

http://bit.ly/1O8iPGC

[H]ere’s a list culled from feedback from solos and small firm lawyers and administrators, my own experience, and lots of research, that will help to optimize the day-to-day management and growth of your practice. . . .

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Less Stress and More Clients? What’s Not To Like?

17 Sunday Jan 2016

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Law Office Management, Management, Marketing

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Jim Calloway, Jim Calloway's Law Practice Tips Blog, Law Office Management, Law Office Marketing

Toward a Less Stressful Workplace (and More Clients), by Jim Calloway, Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips Blog

http://www.lawpracticetipsblog.com/2016/01/a-less-stressful-workplace.html

Toward a Less Stressful Workplace is my column in the January/February 2015 issue of Law Practice Magazine. Law offices often deal with very high stakes matters under strict time deadlines. It is not news to those in the legal profession that there is a lot of stress associated with being a lawyer. So there may be nothing earth-shattering for you in these tips. But it is the beginning of a new year and aiming for less stress in your life and the lives of your coworkers has to be a good thing. So read and feel free to share. . . .

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Retooling and Law Office Management Tips From Jim Calloway.

15 Tuesday Sep 2015

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Economics, Law Office Management, Management, Marketing, Office Procedures, Technology, Time Management

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog, Client Intake, Greg Lambert, Hourly Billing, Jim Calloway's Law Practice Tips Blog, Law Office Management, Law Practice Magazine

Effective Client Intake and the Rise of Firm Pricers, by Jim Calloway, Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips Blog

http://tinyurl.com/pfxnpk5


Effective client intake and law firm pricing may not seem like closely connected topics, but they are connected and will be even more connected in the future. My column in the September Law Practice Magazine is Effective Client Intake and the Rise of Firm Pricers.

Law firms are retooling and reevaluating many of their operations and procedures. How long has it been since you have taken at look at your new client (or new matter for an existing client) intake procedures? . . .

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Some Tips For Starting Your Law Firm’s Website.

27 Monday Jul 2015

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Advertising, Law Firm Web Sites, Law Office Management, Legal Technology, Marketing, Search Enginges, Technology, Using Social Media

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Brian Focht, Law Firm Management, Marketing & Advertising, The Cyber Advocate, Web Site

How to Create a Successful Law Firm Website: Getting Started, by The CyberAdvocate

http://www.thecyberadvocate.com/2015/07/27/create-law-firm-website-pt1/

Creating a new website for your law firm, whether you’re opening up a new practice or updating a dated law firm, can be an immense task. I’d love to say that following this guide will allow you to put together a successful and profitable website in your spare time. It won’t. . . .

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I Have A Little List . . . .

23 Monday Feb 2015

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Law Office Management, Management, Marketing, Office Procedures, Time Management

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Bad Language Blog, Law Office Management, Matthew Stibbe

40 Essential Rules Of Client Management (Collected Over 10 Years), by Matthew Stibbe, Bad Language Blog

http://tinyurl.com/kuovcje

For the last decade, I’ve been compiling a list of ‘rules’ for client management based on very personal, subjective reactions to things that happened to me, mainly in the business world. I was partly inspired by NASA’s 100 rules for project managers.

I always meant it to be very personal and some of the rules relate to very specific things that happened to me. But I realised that with proper scrubbing it might be interesting for you too. . . .

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The New and The Best Lawyer Apps for 2015.

07 Saturday Feb 2015

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Android Phones, Apps, Cell Phones, iPad, iPhones, Law Office Management, Legal Technology, Management, Marketing, Trial Tips and Techniques

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Android Phone Apps, Brian Focht, Cell Phones, iPhone Apps, Lawyer Apps, Legal Technology, Management, Marketing, Styles Byrum & Horne LLP, thecyberadvocate.com, Windows Phone

Best New Apps for Lawyers from January 2015, by Brian Focht, Civil Litigation Attorney at Styles Byrum & Horne LLP

http://tinyurl.com/mdhprmo

Whether you’re looking to market your firm, increase your practice’s productivity, prepare and present information at trial, or increase your practice management capacity, there’s an app for you! Check out the best new apps for lawyers, for iOS, Android and Windows Phone, from January 2015!

And,

The Best New Apps for Lawyers – January 2015, thecyberadvocate.com

Whether you’re looking for marketing, practice management, or litigation strategy, here are the best new apps for lawyers from January 2015.

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Martindale Hubbell’s Brand Is Not What It Used To Be.

16 Friday Jan 2015

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Advertising, Law Office Management, Legal Technology, Marketing, Technology

≈ Comments Off on Martindale Hubbell’s Brand Is Not What It Used To Be.

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AV Rating, Court Link, Internet Brands, LexisNexis, Martindale Hubbell

Martindale Hubbell: Another Legal Icon Bites the Dust. But It Was Once Worth Its Weight in Gold (and Held for Ransom), by Jean O’Grady, J.D. M.L.S., Dewey B Strategic Blog

http://tinyurl.com/l24mabe

In August 2013 LexisNexis announced that they had entered into a joint venture with Internet Brands (the owner of Cars.com) to develop ‘marketing solutions’ using the Martindale.com platform. Although Internet Brands is taking the lead in managing the joint venture there is no mention of Martindale on their website. Since LexisNexis owns InterAction,  the leading ‘contact management’ product which is used in many law firms – it is puzzling why some effort was not made to integrate Martindale with InterAction and other LN sources containing rich actionable client data such as Courtlink dockets.

Blogger Kevin O’Keefe recently posed the question ‘Does Martindale Hubbell, as we knew it still exist?‘ ‘The answer is clearly ‘no,’ and O’Keefe wonders aloud whether the Martindale brand divorced from the legacy of Martindale Hubbell has any real meaning.  The announcement of the joint venture was followed by the layoff of most of the Martindale staff. These were the people who used to curate the surveys and data collected to evaluate whether lawyers and firms qualified for the for the ‘gold standard’ AV rating. So what is left of the legacy? . . .

 

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It’s Almost The First Of The Year – Time For Strategic Planning Meeting!

25 Thursday Dec 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Disaster Preparedness, Law Office Management, Management, Marketing, Office Procedures, Technology, Time Management

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Billing, Disaster Preparedness, Law Office Management

Leadership for Lawyers: How to Conduct a Strategic Planning Meeting, by Larry Port, Legal Productivity

http://tinyurl.com/o8txfh9

Your office may run perfectly – or so you think. We all have room for improvement. The same goes for the workplace. You may feel that, if there are any changes needed, you’ll make that decision. Fair enough. But is it possible that someone else at your office may have an idea you haven’t considered? You won’t know unless you ask. -CCE

What I’m about to ask you to do may initially seem like madness for an hourly lawyer, but I argue that it’s madness NOT to do it.

For the love of all that’s holy, PLEASE spend a day or two (even three) a year, locked in a room away from your office with the most important people in your law firm.

You need a yearly planning meeting like the one I describe below, and without it you’re spinning in circles without a navigation system. You won’t know where you’re going or when you’ve arrived.

Your annual planning meeting is the most critical conversation you will have all year for your law firm. When well-executed, you will emerge with a blueprint for the future direction of your firm. You’ll lay out concrete initiatives and goals that will, in turn, drive quarterly plans, which trickle down to your everyday to-do list.

Thought of in reverse, every activity you engage in on a daily basis should support a quarterly objective which is derived from the road map you draw in your annual offsite meeting. . . .

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Witness Preparation = Successful Depositions.

22 Wednesday Oct 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Advertising, Depositions, Discovery, Law Office Management, Marketing, Objections, Video Deposition

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Depositions, Discovery, Jim Calloway, Jim Calloway's Law Practice Tips Blog, Law Office Marketing, Oklahoma Bar Association, Robert P. Redemann

Witness Preparation: Best Practices for a Successful Deposition, by Jim Calloway, Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips Blog

http://tinyurl.com/osk8vkn

Jim Calloway is a superhero masquerading as the Director of the Oklahoma Bar Association’s Management Assistance Program. While that being the Director of the OBA’s Management Assistant Program may be Jim’s “day job,” Jim does far more than that. This link will tell you more about his other activities, and I have no idea where he finds the time: http://jimcalloway.typepad.com/about.html.

But the best thing about Jim is that we found him first! And we know a good thing when we see it. We may share him with the rest of you from time to time, but luckily Jim has – so far – always called Oklahoma his home. -CCE

Witness Preparation: Best Practices for a Successful Deposition is a really nice article by Tulsa, Oklahoma attorney Robert P. Redemann. I strongly recommend it to any lawyer, even those who might not be involved with depositions. Sometimes it is good to understand best practices in our profession. Share the link with a young lawyer you know.

I would add one other item. Have you looked at the materials you routinely give the client to prepare for a deposition recently? Surely all law firms have progressed past the point of giving clients photocopied deposition tips in favor of custom-prepared materials with the law firm’s name, address and logo. But if you have not reviewed your handouts lately, take a look. A good proofing and freshening is often in order. Use some different sized fonts, headers, text boxes or insert a small graphic or two to increase readability. You never know who may be looking at this document sometime as a representation of your firm’s work product. Make this a professional document you are proud to have carry your firm’s name.

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Social Media in Law Office Marketing.

21 Sunday Sep 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Law Firm Web Sites, Law Office Management, Legal Blogs, Marketing, Technology, Using Social Media

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Legal Productivity Blog, Lisa Pansini, Marketing, SEO, Social media

SEO and Social Media, by Lisa Pansini, Legal Productivity Blog

http://tinyurl.com/nuj2nwp

SEO has always been about one thing: publishing high-quality content that gets seen and linked to by as many people as possible. For years, the foundation of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) has been dominated by two key elements: content and links.

Today’s online society has given rise to a third: social media. It wasn’t around during the dawn of the SEO industry, but it’s difficult to ignore the power and importance that social media has in any marketing strategy.

Social Media does more than allow companies to keep up with their competition. It allows them to reach out and interact with their customers while building their brand, creating a sense of community, and driving traffic to their website.

When it comes to social media, however, there is no ‘one size fits all’ rule. . . .

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How To Recognize A Bad Client The Easy Way.

20 Sunday Jul 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Law Office Management, Management, Marketing

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Bad Clients, Law Office Management, Lawyerist Blog, Marketing, Randall Ryder

The Bad Clients You Don’t Take Will Be the Best Money You Never Made, by Randall Ryder, Lawyerist Blog

http://lawyerist.com/75147/bad-clients/

Wouldn’t it be nice if every client who called to retain a lawyer were completely honest and forthright during that first meeting or telephone call? Have you ever been burned by believing your client and finding out the hard way that the facts are not what you’ve been told? You ask all the right questions. They seem to give all the right answers. Perhaps you do not see had bad it was until you have spent time and money on the case. Here are some warning signs that will help you avoid bad clients. -CCE

Not all clients are created equal. Great clients will enhance your legal skills, your reputation, and your bottom line. Bad clients can make you question your skills, destroy your reputation, and result in the worst money you have ever made.

Once you have a better understanding of how bad clients can wreck your practice, you will get better at spotting them and avoiding them. And it will be the best money you never made. . . .

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Is It Time For A “Bring Your Own Device” Policy for Your Law Office?

01 Tuesday Jul 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Android Phones, Apple, Blackberry Phones, Cell Phones, Clouds, Computer Forensics, Confidentiality, Cybersecurity, Disaster Preparedness, Emails, Encryption, Google, Intellectual Property, iPad, iPhones, Law Office Management, Legal Blogs, Legal Ethics, Legal Technology, Mac, Management, Marketing, Passwords, PC Computers, Social Media, Supervising Support Staff, Tablets, Technology, Using Social Media

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Apple, Blackberry Phone, Cell Phones, Confidentiality, Curo Legal Blog, Cybersecurity, iPads, iPhones, Legal Ethics, Mobile Device Policy, Passwords, Tablets, Will Harrelson

Mobile Device Security for Lawyers: How Solos and Small Firms can Ethically Allow Bring Your Own Device, by Will Harrelson, Curo Legal Blog (with hat tip to Jeff Richardson, iPhone J.D. Blog!)

http://tinyurl.com/lrrnp7g

The Start of Bring Your Own Device Policies

It really is the iPhone’s fault. Yes, Apple is to blame for designing the most desirable piece of technology of the last decade. So desirable, in fact, that employees of all stripes requested (and, often, begged) their IT departments to toss the increasingly-‘corporate’ Blackberry out the window and allow the use of their personal iPhones for corporate emails and calls. As a result, we have been living in the age of ‘Bring Your Own Device’ where employees use a single personal mobile phone (or tablet) for both their personal email, texting, and social media while also using it for work email, word processing, and other enterprise applications.

Before the Bring Your Own Device era, a company’s greatest out-of-office security concern was an employee who left a briefcase in a taxi. Today, the worry is an employee misplacing a device the size of wallet containing almost limitless amounts of data that criminals or hackers would easily and quickly exploit if given the chance. Clearly, there is an obvious financial motivation for all businesses to protect their own or customer’s sensitive data.

However, lawyers face particular ethical consequences if they fail to take reasonable efforts to either investigate the technologies that they implement or protect their client’s confidential information. . . .

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What Makes Attorney Fee’s “Unconscionable”?

19 Thursday Jun 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Advertising, Law Office Management, Management, Marketing

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Attorney Fees, Ball In Your Court Blog, Collection, Contingency Fees, Cost Projection, Craig Ball

Unconscionable, by Craig Ball, Ball In Your Court Blog

http://ballinyourcourt.wordpress.com/2014/06/19/unconscionable/

 Before I limited my law practice to work for courts and counsel, I was a trial lawyer working for contingent fees.  For 20+ years, I never charged for an hour of my time.  I funded the cases, did the work and was paid only if I recovered damages for my clients.  I charged 40% plus expenses; so, for the most part my clients and I shared roughly equally in the outcome.  At the time, I thought my fees proper, and they were certainly ‘industry standard.’  Everyone charged about the same, not from collusion but from plagiarism: lawyers didn’t draft fee agreements; we copied them.

But as I look back, I see that I could have charged less—even much less—and still have made a good living.  The only limits on what I could charge were the marketplace, where I saw no competition on price, and ethical precepts dictating a lawyer may not charge an illegal or unconscionable fee. . . .

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An Unique Response to Texas Center for Legal Ethics’ Opinion 642.

31 Saturday May 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Law Office Management, Legal Ethics, Management, Marketing

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Greg Lambert, Law Firm Management, Law Firm Marketing, Legal Ethics, Texas Center for Legal Ethics, Three Geeks And A Blog

The Depths T’Which Ethics Reaches: or, The Origin of Opinion 642, by Greg Lambert, Three Geeks And A Blog

http://tinyurl.com/oz7hb6v

 Inspired by recent events.

Dewey said to Cheatum, ‘What ever shall we do?
Our book is getting slimmer and I haven’t got a clue
How to run a proper business, you know, one that still makes money?
We can’t just raise our rates… stop your laughing. It’s not funny!’

‘Silly Dewey, how you worry!’ chortled Cheatum through his drink.
‘There’s no problem we can’t tackle with a good and proper think.
We’re the brightest and the smartest and by far the best paid too,
We’ll just put our heads together and we’ll figure what to do.’ . . .

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Jim Calloway And The ABA TECHSHOW.

05 Saturday Apr 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Law Office Management, Legal Blogs, Legal Technology, Management, Marketing, Technology, Time Management, Using Social Media

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60 Sites In 60 Minutes, ABA Journal, American Bar Association, Jim Calloway, Jim Calloway's Law Practice Tips Blog, Natalie R. Kelly, Oklahoma Bar Association, Sharon Nelson, The Digital Edge: Lawyers and Technology

ABA TECHSHOW 2014 – Interview with The TECHSHOW Chair, by Jim Calloway, Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips Blog

http://tinyurl.com/khy3wwj

If you are interested in legal technology and law office management and you don’t know about Jim, it’s time to get acquainted. Jim Calloway is the Director of the Management Assistance Program of the Oklahoma Bar Association.  He is a nationally recognized expert, and the recognition is well deserved. Among other things, he produces, with Sharon Nelson, The Digital Edge: Lawyers and Technology, a monthly podcast. You will also find his articles on the ABA’s and Oklahoma Bar Association’s websites.

In this post, he shares an interview with Techshow Chair, Natalie R. Kelly, 60 Sites in 60 Minutes lineup, the ABA Journal article on the program, and 60 sites list. Really good stuff. -CCE

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LinkedIn – Checked Your Profile Lately?

12 Wednesday Feb 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Advertising, Law Office Management, Marketing, Using Social Media

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Brian Zisk, Derek Lazarro, Forbes, Jeremy Pepper, Karey Rees, Kathleen Kilian Wainscott, Klout Score, LinkedIn, Networking, Profile, Rachael Hand, Rob Asghar, Social media, Susan Wampler, Veronica Belmont, William Arruda

Your LinkedIn Profile: Go Big Or Go Home, by Rob Asghar, Contributor, Forbes

http://tinyurl.com/letyp5d

LinkedIn is an enigma. It now has some 260 million users, and it’s a daily routine for millions of ambitious professionals. But millions of others reluctantly create profiles, feel guilty for not having a stronger profile, and wonder, ‘Does anybody really get a better job through this thing anyway?’

Some do, but that’s not really the point. The point is that you need to take control of your personal and professional branding on the Internet.

For most people, their LinkedIn profile isn’t just their online resume, it’s a window into their existence. It allows others to quickly find out about your background, your competence, your network–and, above all, your sense of self. . . .

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Recommended Law Practice Resolutions for 2014

02 Thursday Jan 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Law Firm Web Sites, Law Office Management, Legal Blogs, Management, Marketing

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Adopt These Resolutions For Your Law Practice In 2014, Lawyerist Insider

http://tinyurl.com/lcsckk3

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What Is The Difference Between Good and Really Awful Lawyer Advertising?

27 Friday Dec 2013

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Law Firm Web Sites, Law Office Management, Legal Blogs, Marketing

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Advertising, Foshe & Yaffe, Gregory H. Haubrick, John Edwards, John Edwards scandal, Legal Blogs, Marketing, Mass Lawyer Advertising

How Bad Lawyer Advertising Hurts Our Legal System, by Gregory H. Haubrich, The Haubrich Law Firm, P.C., Butter’s Blog

http://greghaubrich.com/2013/12/17/how-bad-lawyer-advertising-hurts-our-legal-system/

I was talking to my friend Bobbie a few years ago when John Edwards was running for President — and before it was known that he was not just a pretty boy, but a lying pretty boy who cheated on his wife. I had met Senator Edwards and was one of many who were more than disappointed when he imploded. Bobbie said: ‘Greg, I could never vote for him.’

I asked why? ‘Because he’s a trial lawyer.’

‘Well, shoot, Sis, I’m a trial lawyer. What’s the problem with that?’

It turned out that what Bobbie really hated was the mass media lawyer advertising that encourages people to call lawyers and file lawsuits when they would not even know they had a claim unless they saw the idea on television.

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A CEO Guide To Just About Everything You Want to Know About Tech.

25 Wednesday Dec 2013

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Clouds, Disaster Preparedness, Intellectual Property, Legal Technology, Marketing

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Bloomberg Businessweek, CEO Tech Guide, Cloud, Disaster Preparedness, Finance, Intellectual Property, Legal Technology and Tips, Marketing

CEO Tech Guide, Bloomberg BusinessWeek

http://www.businessweek.com/reports/technology/ceo-tech-guide

Creative financing, sustainable business practice, clouds, disaster preparedness, protection of intellectual property, mobile advertising and marketing, and more. – CCE

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A Compilation of Canadian Law Blogs, Articles, and Links

09 Saturday Nov 2013

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Copyright, Intellectual Property, Law Libraries, Law Office Management, Legal Writing, Marketing, Research

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Canada, Copyright, Intellectual Property, Law Libraries, Law Office Management, Legal Writing, Marketing

Fall 2013 Issue of Law Library Journal Now Available, Michel-A. Sheppard, Library Boy

http://bit.ly/1fsfMdJ

Ron, this one’s for you. CCE

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During Trial, Court Should Have Admonished Jury Not to Google Plaintiff’s Lawyer Rather than Ordering Removal of Verdict Successes from Attorney’s Website

01 Friday Nov 2013

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in First Amendment, Jury Instructions, Law Firm Web Sites, Law Office Management, Legal Ethics, Marketing, Trial Tips and Techniques

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Jurors Might Google Law Firm’s Website, but Judge Can’t Censor It During Trial, by Scott Graham, The Recorder (with hat tip to Allen Mihecoby, CLAS, RP® on LinkedIn)

http://perma.cc/0UvXPVmc3Fg

[T]the decision sets new boundaries in an area of increasing concern for trial attorneys and judges: the balance between attorney free speech rights and potential jury contamination in a networked world.

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Possible game changer – Google’s switch to “secure search” impacts how you track customers to your website.

22 Tuesday Oct 2013

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Google, Legal Technology, Marketing, Search Enginges, Trust Accounts

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Google, Legal Technology, Marketing, Ranking, Search Engines, Small Business, Trust Accounts

How Google’s Search Changes Affect Small Businesses, by Eilene Zimmerman, You’re the Boss Blog
http://nyti.ms/15YjKVz

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How to Be a Successful CLE Speaker

19 Saturday Oct 2013

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Continuing Legal Education, Marketing, Presentations, Trust Accounts

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Lawyers: How To Become A CLE Speaker And Then Be Invited Back, by Guest, Legal Productivity
http://bit.ly/P3btIp

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