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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
[ABA Site-tation] Reducing the size of PDF files
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If you have been scanning and converting documents to PDF you have probably noticed that these files can be large and take up a great deal of space. However, there are several quick and easy ways to reduce the size of large PDFs using the Professional version of Adobe Acrobat. To begin, make sure that you have a professional version of Adobe Acrobat. Secondly, identify the location of the PDF files you want to shrink and consider a separate location or naming scheme for your reduced...
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[Oregon Law Practice Management] What to Expect if You Upgrade to Acrobat X
In my recent post, The Best of Acrobat, I mentioned that I had taken the plunge and upgraded to Acrobat X. I am still acquainting myself with it’s features, but wanted to share my initial observations. Performance Acrobat X is fast! Saving to PDF seems almost instantaneous. Printing to PDF takes only slightly longer. Overall: very [...]
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http://oregonlawpracticemanagement.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/what-to-expect-if-you-upgrade-to-acrobat-x/
[Thoughtful Legal Management] Top 10 Legal Tech Predictions for 2011!
♬ Crystal ball
There’s so many things I need to know
Crystal ball
There’s so many things I’ve got to know
Crystal ball…♬
Music and lyrics by: Tommy Shaw, recorded by Styx.
I wanted to end off this year by gazing into the crystal ball and make a list of the top 10 legal technologies that I see influencing 2011. There is always a danger in making predictions but it is also a bit of fun too. So without further ado here is Dave’s Top 10 List of Legal...
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http://thoughtfullaw.com/2010/12/31/top-10-legal-tech-predictions-for-2011/
[Compujurist] Word Tip: How to copy only one column in multi-column layouts
One of my frustrations in Word has been how to copy just the text in a specific column in a multi-column layout in Word. I am frustrated no longer: I came across the Legal Office Guru blog and a great tip on Copying vertical columns of text in Word. Keep reading to find out how easy this is and if you’re like me, you’ll probably be slapping yourself on your forehead as this task is much too easy for having not known about it.
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http://compujurist.com/2010/12/31/word-tip-how-to-copy-only-one-column-in-multi-column-layouts/
[Law Practice Advisor] Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot: The Best of the Guests
Last week, I published (okay: republished; yes, you got me, congratulations; but, you can’t stop history from repeating itself) the best of the best from the LOMAP Blog from the soon-to-be-Old Year of 2010 (just another rejected baby New Year).
But, after I posted that one, I felt like I was forgetting something, forgetting some . . . one, or someones. Selling somebody out, as it were. So, I’m here to set the record straight.
I neglected to mention (and maybe there was no place for it, sure),...
[Law Practice Tips Blog] NYT: 10 Ways to Get the Most Out of Technology
I want to direct your attention to an extremely useful article, 10 Ways to Get the Most Out of Technology from the New York Times. These ten things are more related to personal and home use of technology. I wish...
[ABA Site-tation] New articles from the LTRC: Mobile apps by lawyers for lawyers, Creating client satisfaction surveys with Google Docs forms, The risks of unsecured Wi-Fi, and Cloud caution: look before you leap
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Here's a sampling of the most recent technology articles published by the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center:
Mobile Apps by Lawyers for Lawyers While many lawyers are still figuring out how to use mobile applications, popularly referred to as apps, a number of family law practitioners have taken the initiative to develop them. This month we feature enterprising family lawyers from across the country who have developed apps for the practice of family law. [read more]
Creating...
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[Law Practice Tips Blog] Finance Tips: 25 Quick Tips for a Healthier Bottom Line
Check out this nice feature in the ABA's Law Practice magazine, Finance Tips: 25 Quick Tips for a Healthier Bottom Line by Janis Alexander, Ed Poll and Mark Robertson. Janis Alexander is Chief Operations Officer at Ambrose Law Group in...
[Compujurist] Is Marketing the most Important Function You Have in Your Law Firm?
A post on the Lawyer Marketing Blog believes that marketing is more important than the accounting and management aspects of running a law firm. In his post Marketing, More Important Than Accounting, Finance, and Management, Gyi Tsakalakis of AttorneySync ("legal web strategy professionals") advocates this premise based on an article in the New York Times and his own experience working with law firms.
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http://compujurist.com/2010/12/29/is-marketing-the-most-important-function-you-have-in-your-law-firm/
[Busy Lawyer's Guide to Success] Boosting Your Productivity in 2011
With the New Year just around the corner, soon many of us will resolve to improve our law practices in 2011. To help with those resolutions, the ABA Inside Practice newsletter has published Tips for Boosting Productivity at the Office from our book. The list has a dozen practical ways to improve productivity within a law firm.
Best of all, the ABA has specially-priced our book to give this holiday season or to buy for yourself and your staff to start 2011 with a bang!
Order The Busy Lawyer...
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http://lawyersuccesstips.com/?p=480
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