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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
[The Last Word] R.I.P. Skip “The Critterman”
The nicest thing about having a blog is that it’s your own, personal legal pad. You can scribble anything you like on it, and no one can tell you that you can’t. (This has nothing in the world to do with law practice management so, if you read on, don’t say you weren’t warned.) A [...]
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http://asblastword.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/r-i-p-skip-%e2%80%9cthe-critterman%e2%80%9d/
[Thoughtful Legal Management] Slaw Tips
♬ Work it; make it; do it; makes us.
Harder, better, faster, stronger.
More than, hour, our, never.
Ever, after, work is, over…♬
Lyrics and Music by: Thomas Bangalter, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, Edwin Birdsong, recorded by Daft Punk.
SlawTips is now live! Of course you all know Slaw.ca, the multiple award-winning Canadian legal blog on all things legal. Slaw has now created SlawTips – a separate blog that whose mandate is to publish useful tips three times each week — on...
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http://thoughtfullaw.com/2011/01/19/slaw-tips/
[PMATips] Quickly Reduce PDF File Size – 01/18/11
The use of Adobe Acrobat and PDF file format is a growing trend in almost all aspects of the legal environment. Once PDF documents are created they are often transmitted electronically and file size can become an issue. If you have a full version of Adobe Acrobat (not Adobe Reader), there is a really quick and easy way to reduce the file size. Print the file to your Adobe printer! This action does not create a printed document, but it creates an electronic file (It doesn’t make sense, but that...
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http://pmatips.com/wordpress/?p=415
[The Last Word] New Practice Niche? Finance and Immigration Meet in EB-5 Visa Practice
From time to time I get calls from lawyers who are seeking to build more business. They invariably want to know whether I can suggest any underserved practice areas. My first response is to recommend that they call the Lawyer Referral Service and ask whether there are currently any practice areas in which we don’t [...]
[Oregon Law Practice Management] SendNow vs. YouSendIt – A File Sharing Service Shootout
With the launch of SendNow, Adobe becomes the newest vendor to offer cloud based file sending solutions for mega files. The most well-known competitor –YouSendIt – has also amped up its services with a suite of corporate plans. Check out other service providers here. So how do the newcomer and the tried and true sevice provider stack [...]
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http://oregonlawpracticemanagement.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/sendnow-vs-yousendit/
[PA Law Practice Management] Process Credit Card Payments from Clients on Your Smart Phone or iPad
My colleague at the Law Society of British Columbia, David Bilinsky, has a much better title on his Thoughtful Legal Management blog post about a new phone app: “It’s Cool to Be Square“. In it he describes a new application called Square. He describes Square as “a revolutionary service and device that turns a smart phone or iPad into a credit card point-of-sale terminal.” (It works on Android OS in addition to the Apple iOS.) David encourages us to imagine the...
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http://www.pa-lawpracticemanagement.com/?p=752
[Avoid a Claim] Collaborative family law agreement collection scam by Beverly Kawashima targets US lawyers
Last week we did a post about an Ontario lawyer that exchanged emails with the purported Beverly Kawashima. From the calls and emails we received it now appears that several other Ontario lawyers have been contacted, as has a lawyer in Alberta.
Also in response to that post, lawyers in California (two of them), Massachusetts, North Carolina and Texas have advised us that they have been targeted as well. In one case a lawyer was contacted through a profile listing on Avvo. The email...
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[Thoughtful Legal Management] Squares are Cool
♬ But there is no denying that
It’s hip to be square…♬
Lyrics and music by: Bill Gibson, Sean Hopper, and Huey Lewis, “Hip to be Square”
Square for phone or iPad
Square is a revolutionary service and device that turns a smart phone or iPad into a credit card point-of-sale terminal. Imagine being able to take credit card payments – anywhere, anytime – such as at the courthouse, at the client’s home, at the client’s office etc.
Launched by...
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http://thoughtfullaw.com/2011/01/17/squares-are-cool/
[PA Law Practice Management] Social Media and Job Interviews
Just in case you haven’t yet pondered the connection between social media and job interviews, (meaning you didn’t read my blog post of 1-4-2011) here is another great blog post on the topic. The post is entitled “Behind the Resume” and is written under the pen name of Otto Sorts – A Curmudgeon’s Perspective. His blogs are regularly picked up by Attorney-At-Work‘s Daily Dispatch. You can read more of Otto’s rants at his own blog site, humorously...
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http://www.pa-lawpracticemanagement.com/?p=748
[Law Practice Tips Blog] The Dark Side of Technology
I'm one of those who believes that almost every lawyer in private practice should have a smart phone. There are simply too many time-saving tools and techniques available via a smart phone that can be useful to the time-challenged lawyer....
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Guide to Setting Up a New Practice
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TBA Resource Center
Visit the Tennessee Bar Center at 221 Fourth Ave. North, Suite 400 in Nashville, and check out any of the many publications about law office management that are available. Obtain forms, checklists and information about how to set up your practice. Free to TBA members.