Lawyerist
"While I love to nudge lawyers toward a paperless office, I also like to talk about productivity, marketing, and best practices"
Author: Sam Glover is a solo practitioner in Minneapolis and also authors Caveat Emptor.
Blawg Related Categories: Law Practice Management • Legal Marketing & Consulting • Legal Technology • Solo / Small Firm
Recent Posts from Lawyerist
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New FDIC rule provides increased security for IOLTA accounts
With the recent meltdown of financial institutions, some lawyers have been wondering whether and how client funds held in a lawyer’s IOLTA account are be covered by FDIC insurance in the event of a bank…
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Google finally syncs Blackberry contacts
Finally, a sync I can support! Google Sync will now sync your Blackberry’s built-in contacts with your Gmail contacts. This is huge, especially if, like me, you use Gmail for email. Before, I had to…
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This post is privileged and confidential
But you started reading it anyway. We’re all so inundated with disclaimers and license agreements at every turn that we barely flinch anymore when we see the words “privileged and confidential” or worse, long paragraphs…
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“Send me a postcard, drop me a line . . .”
The following is a fictionalized account of a conversation between the plaintiff’s attorneys in Illinois Central Railroad Co. v. Broussard, No. 2007-CA-01010-COA (Miss.Ct. App. Sept. 30, 2008), as reported at 24 Lawyers’ Manual 535 (Oct.…
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Link roundup
Some things I haven’t had time to write about from the last few weeks: Synkron Syncs Files and Folders Across Platforms | Lifehacker GIMP Tricks Everyone Should Know | Lifehacker THIS is Why Solos Must…
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Watch out for ethics bumps in flat fees
As alternative billing approaches go, flat fees have many fans. Clients like to know exactly what a particular legal service will cost and lawyers like to leverage experience they have gained in providing the same…
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A Windows I am looking forward to
I confess, I am actually looking forward to Windows 7. When Vista came out, I jumped ship to Ubuntu. I was tired of boring, clumsy old XP, and Vista’s system requirements were ridiculous. But Microsoft…
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WordPress overhauls its user interface
Think open source is unsophisticated? Think again. Take a look at the lengths the WordPress team went to in order to redesign the user interface. To make sure users get a better interface, WordPress engaged…
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Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex: get it while its hot!
New versions of Ubuntu are released twice a year, and the second release of 2008 comes out today! (Watch the countdown at right to find out when the actual release is available.) Since 8.04 was…
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The son of a bitch who invented Comic Sans
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