Law Practice Management

The Tennessee Bar Association has a variety of resources and practical information on law office management issues available to help members better serve clients and practice more efficiently and effectively.

Below you will find the Practice Management Advisor Pipes Feed, brought to you by the Law Office Technology & Management Section of the Tennessee Bar Association. "PMA Pipes" is an RSS newsfeed that was designed by the ABA's Legal Technology Resource Center. It combines posts from the blogs of Practice Management Advisors from across the United States, as well as the ABA's Site-tation blog, into one convenient location. The blogs brought to you by this feed include: Law Practice Matters, Reid My Blog, Law Practice Tips, Law Practice Advisor, The Last Word, Thoughtful Legal Management, and Compujurist, among others.

Practice Management Advisor Pipes Feed

[Law Practice Tips Blog] Great Reading for the Week of January 24, 2011

I'm going to try something new here. Actually for those who have used the online service now known as Delicious by Yahoo or seen Dennis Kennedy's experiments with microblogging, it might seem old school (well, old INTERNET school anyway.) Here's...

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[ABA Site-tation] Access to Private, Password-Protected Materials in Social Network Investigations

Body: A Westlaw News & Insight article reports that some judges are granting lawyers in social network investigations (searching and scraping social media sites like Facebook for case evidence) access to private, password-protected materials in users' accounts. According to the article, "While judges have long allowed information gleaned from public portions of networking sites to be used as evidence in civil trials, materials that are password-protected or reserved for selected "friends"...

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[ABA Site-tation] Access to Private, Password-Protected Materials in Social Network Investigations

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[Law Practice Advisor] DimDim is DimDone: Alternatives for WebConferencing in the Aftermath of Salesforce’s Acquisition of DimDim

If you, like me, greeted the news of Saleforce’s purchase of DimDim with a string of expletives, you’re likely looking around for a new webconferencing option. It’s not like DimDim was the greatest product ever (sorry, DimDim, that honor goes to the Shake Weight, with the SlapChop, running a train on a close second), but there were some nice features, it was intuitive, it offered included web and telephone access and the price was free or nice, depending upon whether you wanted to upgrade your...

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[PA Law Practice Management] Should You Switch to Windows 7?

I’ve been getting plenty of calls on the PA Bar Association Member-Only Hotline regarding whether to upgrade Operating System software. I’ve read a lot about it from various sources, and took the plunge myself some time ago, without regret. Recently I asked my colleague, Jennifer Ellis, to blog about it. She did, and has provided links to additional helpful information as well. If you’re still on the fence, read her post entitled, “Should you switch to Windows 7? Yes....

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[ABA Site-tation] Google Search Proximity Operator

Body: Google Search boasts a number of helpful search features and operators, including using quotation marks to specify a phrase search, using minus signs to specify terms to exclude, [inurl:] to search for terms in a URL, [site:] to limit the search to specific sites, and [define:] to search for definitions. According to Google employee Daniel M. Russell, a proximity operator can be used in Google searches. The syntax is [term/phrase1 AROUND(n) term/phrase2], where n is the maximum distance...

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[ABA Site-tation] Google Search Proximity Operator

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[Slaw: Dan Pinnington] Change This Setting to Make Hacking Your Facebook Account More Difficult

From an announcement on the Facebook blog yesterday, Facebook has taken a big step to make your Facebook browsing experience far safer. I suspect this at least in part because someone was able to hack into Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook fan page. If you’ve ever done your shopping or banking online, you may have noticed a small “lock” icon appear at the lower right of your browser or that the URL starts with a HTTPS. The HTTPS indicates that your browser is using a...

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[Avoid a Claim] Collaborative family law agreement collection scam by Donna Lynn Chipman

We have recently received notice from a number of lawyers of an attempted family law agreement collection scam by the purported Donna Lynn Chipman. This is a name that that appeared on some previous fraud attempts, but that we have not been seen for several months. It seems that some lawyers are getting a lengthy introductory email, and others are getting a very short one. Both versions follow. Here is the long version: From: Mrs. Donna Lynn Chipman. [mailto:mchungaacorp4@zav.att.ne.jp] Sent:...

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[Avoid a Claim] Asia Pacific Microsystems Inc. collection scam by Anita Kahn

Over the last 6 months, lawyers in Ontario and elsewhere have reported receiving the below message from the purported Anita Khan. Activity has been particularly high in just the last two weeks and it appears that hundreds, if not thousands, of lawyers are being targeted by this fraud. The text of the messages was identical, and the following email addresses were used: logsurdem.qc.ca, anita_khan@techie.com, post@swisslotto.ch and deanna@util01.adqic.com. The text of these messages was as...

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