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The Best Email Marketing Software of 2017 Plus 39 More Must-Reads

By TechnoLawyer | Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Coming today to SmallLaw: Our editorial team has selected and linked to the 40 best articles, podcasts, and videos from the past week worthy of your attention. Below you'll find a sampling from today's issue, including our SmallLaw Pick of the Week. SmallLaw is free so don't miss the next issue — sign up now.

Congratulations to Molly K. McLaughlin of PCMag on winning our SmallLaw Pick of the Week award: The Best Email Marketing Software of 2017

How One Lawyer Makes Millions Providing Ads for Other Firms

What to Do When the Cult of the Personality Powers Your Solo Law Practice

When to Trust Your Gut, Not Your Legal Brain

Top Three Free Law Firm Directories

Ten Opportunities to Improve Your Law Firm Marketing

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Small law firm, big dreams. Written by successful small-firm founders, managing partners, administrators, and legal technology and practice management experts, SmallLaw provides practical advice on management, marketing, and technology issues in solo practices and small law firms. Additionally, SmallLaw features comprehensive reviews of legal products with accompanying TechnoScore ratings. SmallLaw also ensures that you won't miss anything published elsewhere by linking to helpful articles, podcasts, and videos about solo practices and small law firms. Subscribe now for free.

Topics: Coming Attractions | Email/Messaging/Telephony | Law Firm Marketing/Publications/Web Sites | Law Office Management | SmallLaw

First Look at Citepad Plus 60 More Must-Reads

By TechnoLawyer | Monday, April 3, 2017

Coming today to BlawgWorld: Our editorial team has selected the 61 best legal technology articles, podcasts, and videos from the past week. Below you'll find a sampling from today's issue, including our BlawgWorld Pick of the Week. BlawgWorld is free so don't miss the next issue — sign up now.

Congratulations to Robert Ambrogi of LawSites on winning our BlawgWorld Pick of the Week award: Now Comes Another Keyboard Designed Just for Lawyers

Due Diligence Insights in Minutes, Not Hours

How a Paperless Law Practice May Be Right for You

The Best Online Backup Services of 2017

NEW! The Lawyer's Guide to a Well-Appointed iPad (Fourth Edition)

Micro-Symposium on ABA TECHSHOW 2017

12 Eye-Popping Home Office Setups

After the Smoke Clears: Inside Samsung's Quest for Redemption

How Aristotle Created the Computer

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Topics: BlawgWorld Newsletter | Coming Attractions | Laptops/Smartphones/Tablets | Utilities

Lee Rosen's Weapons-Grade Tips on Building Client Trust, Fixed-Fee Litigation, and Handling Grievances

By TechnoLawyer | Thursday, March 30, 2017

Coming today to SmallLaw: Lawyer coach Lee Rosen has some weapons-grade tips on client relationships, the problem being they're trapped in his podcast. For this issue of SmallLaw, we spent hours listening to the podcast and distilled Rosen's advice into an article you can digest quickly. Topics include building client trust, preventing clients from milking you, charging fixed fees for litigation, and handling bar grievances. Also, don't miss the SmallLaw Pick of the Week for co-venturing tips from two solos.

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Small firm, big dreams. Written by practicing lawyers who manage successful small firms and legal technology and practice management experts who have achieved rock star status, SmallLaw provides practical advice on management, marketing, and technology issues in small law firms, as well as comprehensive legal product reviews with accompanying TechnoScore ratings. SmallLaw also ensures that you won't miss anything published elsewhere by linking to helpful articles (and podcasts and videos) about solo practices and small law firms. The SmallLaw newsletter is free so don't miss the next issue. Please subscribe now.

Topics: Coming Attractions | Law Office Management | Litigation/Discovery/Trials | SmallLaw

Clarion Delivers Due Diligence Insights in Minutes, Not Hours

By TechnoLawyer | Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Today's issue of TL NewsWire covers a due diligence and business intelligence research service with a new approach to presenting data from public filings (see article below). In addition, you'll find links to the previous 11 TL NewsWire features, including our coverage of a cloud software platform that automates entity formation and compliance tasks, and enables you to offer these services under your own brand, do-it-yourself ediscovery collection software at a price point far below the industry average, and much more. Don't miss the next issue.

Due diligence for M&A and other securities deals is a necessary evil. Lawyers like you are best equipped to assess materiality so you cannot completely delegate it. However, if you could significantly reduce the time it takes to find material data, it would no longer seem so evil, just critically important. You might even use this data for business development opportunities too.

Clarion … in One Sentence

Launched recently, Wolters Kluwer's Clarion is an online due diligence and business intelligence research tool with a new approach to organizing and presenting data.

The Killer Feature

Clarion encompasses more than 22,000 public companies world wide as well as 60,000 private companies. But it's not a mere collection of public filings, requiring you to comb through 10-Ks and the like. Instead, the relevant data from public filings has been categorized and organized in a series of dashboards that match the attorney's workflow. The goal is to present targeted information in public data so that you can get answers in minutes, not hours or days.

For example, one important aspect of due diligence involves identifying a company's revenue by region within specific industries. With just a few clicks, Clarion displays this data for any public company. Bar charts for each region compare the company's total revenue with its revenue for a specific industry and the average for that industry. A trends graph indicates the sales trajectory over the last three years in each region. A map to the right offers a visual of the company's operational regions.

"Clarion was developed exclusively for legal practitioners," says Dean Sonderegger, Vice President & General Manager, Legal Markets & Innovation. "With unique, actionable data points and an intuitive point and click dashboard, Clarion efficiently gives attorneys greater control over research to enhance their ability to provide strategic counsel."

Other Notable Features

You begin using Clarion by either searching for a company or an industry. The latter is useful for finding new clients and new business among existing clients. When you find the company you want to analyze, a dashboard gives you a snapshot of revenue by industry and region as well as its customers, suppliers, competitors, and partners. You can then drill down into any of these categories to display an ever more focused series of dashboards.

Because SIC codes don't provide sufficient granularity, Clarion offers more precision. For example, instead of stopping at "Jewelry Apparel," Clarion goes further with smaller categories such as "Sunglasses and Prescription Frames." This granular taxonomy of industries exists throughout Clarion, enabling you to more thoroughly analyze a company's revenue, customers, competitors, suppliers, and partners.

When viewing a list of related companies, you can filter the list by industry as noted above. Other contextual filters also exist. For customers and suppliers, you can filter by relationship duration. For partners, you can filter by relationship type such as In-Licensing, Investors, and Joint Ventures. You can also search for a specific company to see if a relationship exists with the company you're analyzing. For each relationship, Clarion tells you whether it was mutually or unilaterally disclosed and by whom.

What Else Should You Know?

Every page in Clarion contains a Download button at the top right. Clicking this button generates an Excel file containing the corresponding data for use in a report. Learn more about Clarion.

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So many products, so little time. In each issue of TL NewsWire, you'll learn about five new products for the legal profession. Pressed for time? The newsletter's innovative articles enable lawyers and law office administrators to quickly understand the function of a product, and zero in on its most important features. The TL NewsWire newsletter is free so don't miss the next issue. Please subscribe now.

Topics: Legal Research | TL NewsWire | Transactional Practice Areas

Have Your Attorney Search Rankings Dropped? Plus 41 More Must-Reads

By TechnoLawyer | Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Coming today to SmallLaw: Our editorial team has selected and linked to the 42 best articles, podcasts, and videos from the past week worthy of your attention. Below you'll find a sampling from today's issue, including our SmallLaw Pick of the Week. SmallLaw is free so don't miss the next issue — sign up now.

Congratulations to Chris Dreyer of Lawyernomics on winning our SmallLaw Pick of the Week award: Have Your Attorney Search Rankings Dropped?

The Perfect Date: Calendaring Tips and Tools

How a Car Accident Helped Me Understand the Mindset of Potential Clients

Top Five Actions to Achieve Blogging Success

Weeding Out the Riffraff

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Topics: Coming Attractions | Law Firm Marketing/Publications/Web Sites | Law Office Management | SmallLaw

Micro-Symposium on ABA TECHSHOW 2017

By TechnoLawyer | Monday, March 27, 2017

Coming today to SmallLaw: ABA TECHSHOW 2017 took place from March 15-18. We asked conference Chair Adriana Linares as well as 18 exhibitors to share their product discoveries, tips, and other observations from the perspective of small law firms. The result is our largest ever micro-symposium with everything from brand new 1.0 products to insights on new legal technology trends. Also, don't miss the SmallLaw Pick of the Week to learn why why SEO requires a long-term commitment.

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Small firm, big dreams. Written by practicing lawyers who manage successful small firms and legal technology and practice management experts who have achieved rock star status, SmallLaw provides practical advice on management, marketing, and technology issues in small law firms, as well as comprehensive legal product reviews with accompanying TechnoScore ratings. SmallLaw also ensures that you won't miss anything published elsewhere by linking to helpful articles (and podcasts and videos) about solo practices and small law firms. The SmallLaw newsletter is free so don't miss the next issue. Please subscribe now.

Topics: Business Productivity/Word Processing | CLE/News/References | Coming Attractions | Laptops/Smartphones/Tablets | Law Firm Marketing/Publications/Web Sites | Litigation/Discovery/Trials | Practice Management/Calendars | SmallLaw

21 Notable Apps on Display at ABA TECHSHOW 2017 Plus 51 More Must-Reads

By TechnoLawyer | Monday, March 27, 2017

Coming today to BlawgWorld: Our editorial team has selected the 52 best legal technology articles, podcasts, and videos from the past week. Below you'll find a sampling from today's issue, including our BlawgWorld Pick of the Week. BlawgWorld is free so don't miss the next issue — sign up now.

Congratulations to Joan Feldman of Attorney at Work on winning our BlawgWorld Pick of the Week award: What's New in Legal Technology? ABA TECHSHOW 2017

Legalinc Modernizes Entity Formation and Compliance Through Practice Automation

Review: H&R Block v. TaxAct v. TaxSlayer v. TurboTax

Review: Plume Adaptive WiFi System

How to Use Workflow, the App That Apple Just Bought and Made Free for Everyone

The Best Battery Life Laptops of 2017

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Topics: BlawgWorld Newsletter | CLE/News/References | Coming Attractions | Laptops/Smartphones/Tablets

Micro-Symposium on the Battle of the Trial Presentation Apps

By TechnoLawyer | Thursday, March 23, 2017

Coming today to LitigationWorld: The days of deciding whether or not to use trial presentation softare have ended. Instead, you now face a potentially tougher choice — which of the many apps to use. We asked nine experts — Ken Broda-Bahm, Ted Brooks, Russell Cardon, Mitch Jackson, Karen Koehler, Ian O'Flaherty, Timothy Piganelli, Jeff Richardson, and Thomas Vidal — to share their experiences and insights in this issue of LitigationWorld. Also, don't miss the LitigationWorld Pick of the Week for the secret to writing a winning brief when no one reads it.

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All practice areas evolve, but none faster than litigation. Written by successful litigators and other litigation experts, LitigationWorld provides you with practical tips related to electronic discovery, depositions, litigation strategy, litigation technology, and trial presentations. LitigationWorld also features in-depth litigation product reviews with accompanying TechnoScore ratings, as well as links to the most noteworthy litigation articles in other publications so that you'll never miss anything. The LitigationWorld newsletter is free so don't miss the next issue. Please subscribe now.

Topics: Coming Attractions | Litigation/Discovery/Trials | LitigationWorld | Presentations/Projectors

Legalinc Modernizes Entity Formation and Compliance Through Practice Automation

By TechnoLawyer | Thursday, March 23, 2017

Today's issue of TL NewsWire covers a cloud software platform that automates entity formation and compliance tasks, and enables you to offer these services under your own brand (see article below). In addition, you'll find links to the previous 11 TL NewsWire features, including our coverage of do-it-yourself ediscovery collection software at a price point far below the industry average, cloud practice management software for law firms that crave the billing and automation features of legacy software, and much more. Don't miss the next issue.

Entity formation and ongoing management can seem like Dante's Inferno with each secretary of state a figurative Circle of Hell thanks to archaic websites, inconsistent compliance notifications, and manual, paper-based processes. How about some modernization and uniformity?

Legalinc … in One Sentence

Launched recently, Legalinc automates tasks related to business formation, entity management, and registered agent services, and enables you to offer these services under your own brand.

The Killer Feature

You can use Legalinc's services directly from its website. Alternatively, you can incorporate LINC, a private-label (white-label) version of Legalinc, into your own website. LINC is free, including complete integration assistance.

With LINC powering your website, you can offer do-it-yourself business formation services. Prospects can choose from several packages. For example, you could charge extra for registered agent services, an online entity management dashboard, etc. Also, these new businesses may need additional legal services that your firm can provide — trademark filings, lease negotiations, private placements, etc.

"Legalinc is an incredible partner for us, says Kevin Vela, co-founder of Vela Wood P.C. in Texas. "We leverage their LINC technology platform to better and more efficiently service our clients. I can't imagine using anyone else for state filing matters."

Other Notable Features

Legalinc CEO and Founder Erik Treutlein describes Legalinc as a "practice automation software company." "By leveraging the power of software to navigate thorny requirements across all U.S. jurisdictions, Legalinc outshines the clunky, antiquated processes offered today," says Treutlein. "We are committed to automating mission-critical legal services through secure, scalable software."

When forming a new entity, Legalinc displays all state fees, including options for expedited processing. Legalinc can create C and S corporations, LLCs, nonprofits, DBAs, and more in all 50 states. Legalinc can serve as the entity's registered agent.

Legalinc's Compliance Calendar lists deadlines for the entities you manage, enabling you to identify and address compliance challenges. Legalinc can send you and your clients email alerts (on your behalf) for upcoming filing deadlines, status changes, and so forth. If you need a document such as Good Standing that's not available online, Legalinc can retrieve it quickly from the state and upload it to your account.

The Entity Dashboard lists the formation and all subsequent orders as well as the accompanying documents — incorporation, annual reports, state advices, and tax filings. Not all states have gone digital so Legalinc scans and uploads mail received from such states. Similarly, you can upload documents created outside of Legalinc's purview such as board minutes. Accordingly, every compliance document associated with the entity resides in Legalinc. If you're using LINC, you can provide access to this dashboard under your own brand to your clients.

What Else Should You Know?

Legalinc can transfer all the entities your firm currently manages to its platform for free. Legalinc charges an annual fee per entity plus any applicable state filing fees. Treutlein tells me that Legalinc charges significantly less than industry giants like CT Corporation. This gives you more latitude when pricing the services powered by Legalinc that you offer clients. Learn more about Legalinc.

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So many products, so little time. In each issue of TL NewsWire, you'll learn about five new products for the legal profession. Pressed for time? The newsletter's innovative articles enable lawyers and law office administrators to quickly understand the function of a product, and zero in on its most important features. The TL NewsWire newsletter is free so don't miss the next issue. Please subscribe now.

Topics: TL NewsWire | Transactional Practice Areas

Trump's Hires From Big Law Plus Lateral Moves and Promotions (Mar 6 to Mar 19)

By TechnoLawyer | Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Coming today to BiglawWorld: Our editorial team has assembled links to all the partner promotions and lateral moves announced by America's largest law firms during the past week in an easy-to-scan format. You'll also find must-read analysis, rankings, trends, etc. about large law firms.

We'd like to congratulate everyone who leveled up this week. Here's a sampling:

Greenberg Traurig Elevates Eight Attorneys to Shareholder, One of Counsel in Florida Offices

DLA Piper Announces Integration With ABBC in Portugal

Orrick Launches Santa Monica Office to Further Build Global Tech Practice

Two Accomplished Corporate Lawyers Join Baker Botts in Palo Alto

Former Republican Congressman Thomas Reynolds and His Chief of Staff, Sally Vastola, Move to Holland & Knight

Congratulations to Casey Sullivan of Big Law Business on winning our BiglawWorld Pick of the Week award: Trump Hires 15 Lawyers From Big Law.

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BiglawWorld keeps you apprised of lateral hires, internal promotions, mergers, new offices, accolades, and other inside baseball at America's largest law firms. Because we organize this self-reported news by practice area and law firm, BiglawWorld takes just a few minutes to scan yet its comprehensiveness makes it the only source you need. Each issue of BiglawWorld also links to insightful articles, statistical reports, rankings, podcasts, and videos about large law firms. Subscribe now for free.

Topics: BiglawWorld | Coming Attractions | Law Office Management | Technology Industry/Legal Profession
 
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