TechnoLawyer: Law Office Management

Coming today to TechnoFeature: Office space — the final frontier for most law firms. After your payroll, office space represents your second highest cost. But it's much more challenging to get out of a bad lease than to get rid of a bad employee. In this TechnoFeature, facilities expert Gisela Bradley explains how to avoid leaser's remorse. You'll learn how landlords try to hide the real price, lease terms that can help with future growth (or downsizing), and other important considerations that you probably wouldn't otherwise consider. Therefore, before you sign on the dotted line, learn how to read between the lines.

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Coming today to BlawgWorld: Our editorial team has selected and linked to 116 articles from the past week worthy of your attention, including our Post of the Week. Here's a sample:

Wave of New Products Hits LegalTech New York

Review of The Daily: The First iPad-Only Newspaper

Strategically Creating a Successful Succession Plan

Why Good Email Marketing Doesn't Come in a Can

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Coming today to BlawgWorld: Our editorial team has selected and linked to 109 articles from the past week worthy of your attention, including our Post of the Week. Here's a sample:

Choosing a Practice Management System

Apps and Best Practices for Using iPads in Meetings

Strategy Is the New Normal

Four Ways to Buff Up Your Bio

This issue also contains links to every article in the January/February 2011 issue of Law Technology News. Don't miss this issue or future issues.

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Coming today to BlawgWorld: Our editorial team has selected and linked to 113 articles from the past week worthy of your attention, including our Post of the Week. Here's a sample:

Does Microsoft Care About Bugs in Office 2010?

Wowza! Microsoft OneNote for iPhone! Christmas Already?

Contract Attorneys as a True Alternative Fee Arrangement

No, You Can't Offer a Groupon for Legal Services

This issue also contains links to every article in the January 2011 issue of Law Practice Today. Don't miss this issue or future issues.

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Coming today to BlawgWorld: Our editorial team has selected and linked to 102 articles from the past week worthy of your attention, including our Post of the Week. Here's a sample:

How to Start a Law Firm With Less Than $2,500 of Technology

Verizon iPhone: Everything You Need to Know

There's No Crying in Law Practice

A Strategic Staged Approach to LinkedIn

This issue also contains links to every article in the January/February 2011 issue of Law Practice. Don't miss this issue or future issues.

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Coming today to Answers to Questions: Denis Jodis discusses the prickly issue of suing a client for non-payment, Mary Grace Hune shares a tip on enforcing your fee retainer policy, Jason Anderman discusses new state bar ethics opinions cloud computing and client confidentiality, Douglas Shachtman reviews LexisNexis' CaseMap, NoteMap, and TimeMap, and Sandy Hagman reviews GoToMeeting, WebEx, and Dim Dim. Don't miss this issue.

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Coming today to TechnoFeature: Does legal process outsourcing seem like the best thing since the billable hour or the biggest threat to American (and Canadian) lawyers since Nolo Press and LegalZoom? Regardless of where you stand on the issue, LPO is here to stay so you may as well understand its mechanics. In this TechnoFeature article, Fidelity Investments' Vice President and Associate General Counsel Martha Mazzone explores the ethical obligations of corporate legal departments and law firms that outsource legal work overseas (or insource within the United States for that matter). While not every state has weighed in yet, Martha analyzes those that have plus the American Bar Association, which often spearheads new ethics rules for the legal profession.

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Coming today to BlawgWorld: Our editorial team has selected and linked to 107 articles from the past week worthy of your attention, including our Post of the Week. Here's a sample:

Annual Maintenance Plans and Yearly Upgrades

Review: BlackBerry PlayBook (Prerelease)

Top Five Reasons Why Large Law Firms Cause Depression

Here Is Your 2011 Marketing Plan (BigLaw Edition)

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Today's issue of Fat Friday contains these articles:

David Hudgens, Review: Headset Battle: Plantronics Voyager 510S v. Sennheiser BW900 v. BlueAnt v. Jawbone

Paul Mansfield, Tips For PCLaw Users Choosing a Smartphone

Dixon Robertson, Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Office 2010

Question of the Week: What's Going on at Your Firm in 2011?

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Coming today to TechnoFeature: Are you a leader or a manager? Trick question. To effectively run a law firm's information technology (IT) department you must possess a leader's ability to inspire people and a manager's ability to train people and improve their productivity and skills. In this TechnoFeature article, Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks' Director of IT Matthew Berg provides tips from his 18+ years of executive experience, including service in the Navy, on how to become a talented IT manager, and from there make the leap to inspirational leader.

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Our flagship newsletter never disappoints thanks to its in-depth reporting by leading legal technology and practice management experts, many of whom have become "household names" in the legal profession. It's in TechnoFeature that you'll find our oft-quoted formal product reviews and accompanying TechnoScore ratings. The TechnoFeature newsletter is free so don't miss the next issue. Please subscribe now.