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November 2009 Edition - Perfecting Your Practice in the
Ever-Changing Information Age

DirectLaw

Features

The Search for Professionalism in the Changing World of Electronic Information

By Julia Brickell
With the exploding quantity of information that clients now generate and store electronically, lawyers can no longer remain in the dark about how it affects their matters. Providing informed advice increasingly calls for a fundamental knowledge of the most effective ways to search and review that information.

Practicing in the Virtual Realm: A Framework for Delivering Legal Services Online

By Richard S. Granat and Marc Lauritsen
Are you considering moving components of your services from the physical to the virtual realm? Then you’ll want to follow these minimum requirements to help ensure you comply with the rules of professional conduct.

Getting More from Your SharePoint Server Investment

By Brian D. Zeve
Effectively managing information and leveraging the internal knowledge inside your firm are invaluable to staying on top in delivering your legal services. For firms using Microsoft Office SharePoint, here are helpful capabilities you might have overlooked.

Using Wiki Technology to Streamline Information Sharing and Document Management Tasks

By Jim Groff
Because they are inherently collaborative tools, wikis provide a great way for a law practice to capture and build up internal knowledge, manage cases more effectively and more. Consider the uses outlined here.

The Busy Lawyer’s Guide to Success: Essential Tips to Power Your Practice
Book Excerpt

The Busy Lawyer’s Guide to Success: Essential Tips to Power Your Practice

By Reid Trautz and Dan Pinnington
Web sites are a great tool for adding value to your practice. In this excerpt from The Busy Lawyer’s Guide to Success: Essential Tips to Power Your Practice, Reid Trautz and Dan Pinnington offer nine tips for focusing your site on the most important visitor – the client.

Chair's Column

Ocean of Change, Sea of Tranquility, at St. Maarten Meeting

By Micah Buchdahl
An influx of insights from a variety of voices is driving an exciting slate of programs and services. Here’s a look at what was cooking at the latest meeting.

Your Practice Management Advisor

Technology Whiz: Don’t Let Progress Overwhelm You

By Jared Correia
Feeling consumed by the need to have the latest and greatest? Stop! Properly managing your use of technology is about achieving aims rather than adding impediments to your practice.

Marketing

A Lawyer's Social Networking Toolbox: Tuning Up Your Business Development

By Rodney Dowell and Erik Mazzone
Special from the November/December 2009 issue of Law Practice magazine.

Technology

Tech Tool Review

Jump Like Jack Flash: Get to Windows Folders Faster Using QuickJump (It’s Alright Now)

By Jared Correia
Creating a hierarchy for your electronic files makes sense, but with so many documents, even the best organization can become unwieldy. With this new tool, you can find what you need without hunting through the forest of your computer’s many folders and subfolders.

Best of ABA TECHSHOW

Super-Charge Your Referrals With Technology

By Steve Matthews and Reid Trautz
It’s easier and cheaper to keep an existing client than to develop a new one, yet many of us focus our marketing efforts on finding new clients. Existing clients already know the value we can bring to their legal matters, so it pays to stay in touch – not only to have them hire us again and again, but to refer their friends, family, neighbors, or colleagues too.

Finance

The Double-Edged Sword of Suing a Client

By Ed Poll
When all other collection efforts fail, suing a client for nonpayment of your fees may be an unpalatable but necessary step. You must, though, tread carefully and look closely at all the corresponding dangers.

Meet the Women Rainmakers!

Ann Frick

Interview by Jessica Jaramillo
As a founding partner of a Denver firm, one rainmaker recalls her engagement in networking opportunities as the key to a successful career.

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