The December issue of Law Practice Today is out, and it’s focus is very timely for the holiday season. It’s on making personal connections which, after all, are the basis on which practicing lawyers get most of their good business.
I highly recommend Erik Mazzone’s article Ten Tips for Making Your Bar Association Dues Work [...]
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It’s time to start thinking about making plans to attend ABA TECHSHOW 2010. For those who are not familiar with it, TECHSHOW is the ABA Law Practice Management Section’s annual two and a half day CLE program and vendor expo centered around practice management and the use of technology in the practice of law. ABA [...]
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One of the benefits the Practice Management Assistance Program provides to Alabama State Bar members is the Discount Bookstore. Through an arrangement with ABA Publishing, we have been able to offer a 40% discount on any of the great books ABA Publishing and, particularly, the Law Practice Management Section have to offer, such as [...]
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One of the best things about working for a bar association is that I sometimes get free stuff. Not bribe-type stuff for personal use – that’s against the rules for state employees – but things like review copies of books, which are OK. I got one recently that’s both an easy, interesting read [...]
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All the hoopla in the news right now about the “financial crisis” has everyone, lawyers included, on edge about the safety of their retirement assets. Which raises the question of how much is enough when it comes to putting money aside for retirement. Many lawyers, particularly those who practice as solos or in [...]
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I love baseball, and Ben Schorr’s new book, The Lawyer’s Guide to Outlook 2007, is so great it just naturally brings thoughts of home runs to mind. If you have already upgraded to Office 2007, and if you are feeling overwhelmed by both the new user interface in Outlook, not to mention the volume of [...]
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We’ve been hearing that complaint a lot here at bar headquarters since we changed the log-in procedure for the password protected area of Alabar, our web site. But don’t despair. The new protocol is not difficult.
In order to start the process, go to the home page of the bar’s website at www.alabar.org. [...]
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I mentioned to a friend recently that blogging is harder than I thought it would be because I don’t have as much time to read as I would like. Somehow, seeing the thoughts of other people expressed in writing, whether it’s reading books, magazines, articles on the Internet or other people’s blog posts, helps [...]
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Every day I talk to lawyers who are either making plans to leave an established firm and strike out on their own or have already done so. And I continue to be surprised that almost none of them have thought much beyond acquiring space and appropriate furnishings and equipment to set up shop. [...]
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