TechnoLawyer: SmallLaw

Coming today to SmallLaw: Our editorial team has selected and linked to 62 articles from the past week worthy of your attention. Below you'll find a sample article from each section of today's issue, including our SmallLaw Pick of the Week.

Talent Battle Pits Small Against Big

What Clients Don't Care About

Fourteen LinkedIn Tips for 2014

Three Ways to Generate Ideas for Articles

Congratulations to Carolyn Elefant of My Shingle on winning our SmallLaw Pick of the Week award: Red Flag Client Bingo!

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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. Please subscribe now.

Coming today to SmallLaw: The aspect of law practice that generates the most revenue for most law firms is also its least glamorous — document drafting. In this issue of SmallLaw, law firm technology consultant Ben Schorr explains how three Microsoft Word technologies — AutoCorrect, Building Blocks, and Templates — can make document creation more efficient. As always, Ben provides step-by-step instructions. Also, don't miss the SmallLaw Pick of the Week for tips on creating an email signature that will help rather than hurt you.

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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.

Coming today to SmallLaw: Our editorial team has selected and linked to 52 articles from the past week worthy of your attention. Below you'll find a sample article from each section of today's issue, including our SmallLaw Pick of the Week.

A Former Boxer Becomes a Legal Heavyweight

Money Won't Keep the "Poachers" Away

Analyzing My Daily Blogging Experiment

Avoid This Terrible Public Speaking Advice

Congratulations to Lee Rosen of Divorce Discourse on winning our SmallLaw Pick of the Week award: How I Solved My Greatest Weakness as a Law Firm Founder

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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. Please subscribe now.

Coming today to SmallLaw: Our editorial team has selected and linked to 62 articles from the past week worthy of your attention. Below you'll find a sample article from each section of today's issue, including our SmallLaw Pick of the Week.

Poaching Now Fair Part of the Game

Unconventional Wisdom on Time Management

Yahoo's New Local Listings

14 Tips to Grow Your Business in 2014

Congratulations to Robert Denney of WisconsinLawyer on winning our SmallLaw Pick of the Week award: What's Hot and Not in Law Practice in 2014

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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. Please subscribe now.

Coming today to SmallLaw: Our editorial team has selected and linked to 67 articles from the past week worthy of your attention. Below you'll find a sample article from each section of today's issue, including our SmallLaw Pick of the Week.

Top 10 Mistakes Small Firm Owners Make

A Hollow Victory in Court

How to Blog Without Burning Out

Successful Icebreaking Strategies at Events

Congratulations to Robert Algeri of The Great Jakes Blog on winning our SmallLaw Pick of the Week award: Why These Six Law Firm Websites Are So Effective

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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. Please subscribe now.

Coming today to SmallLaw: Your law firm website just got sued — figuratively, not literally. Channeling Jonathan Swift and Johnnie Cochran in equal measure, online legal marketing expert Gyi Tsakalakis uses a fake lawsuit to explain many of the problems that prevent law firm websites and blogs from attracting prospective clients. Given the more than 40 problems he lists, many of them annotated, it's likely that at least some apply to your law firm. Don't miss this satirical tour de force that also happens to be incredibly helpful. Also, don't miss the SmallLaw Pick of the Week for tips on setting your rates and getting paid.

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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.

Coming today to SmallLaw: Our editorial team has selected and linked to 67 articles from the past week worthy of your attention. Below you'll find a sample article from each section of today's issue, including our SmallLaw Pick of the Week.

Why Lawyers Suicides Are Rising

Manage Your Firm By the Book and the Numbers

Google's Spam Chief on Guest Blogging

Deciphering Google's Stance on Guest Blogging

Congratulations to Peggy Gruenke of GPSolo eReport on winning our SmallLaw Pick of the Week award: How to Turn "Likes" Into Clients and Referral Sources

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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. Please subscribe now.

Coming today to SmallLaw: Our editorial team has selected and linked to 82 articles from the past week worthy of your attention. Below you'll find a sample article from each section of today's issue, including our SmallLaw Pick of the Week.

Reflecting on 20 Years as a Small Firm Lawyer

Building an Winning Legal Office Culture

The Problem With Testimonials

Should You Follow Prospects Around the Web?

Congratulations to Greg Siskind of Law Practice on winning our SmallLaw Pick of the Week award: Mobile Legal Marketing Options and Strategies

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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. Please subscribe now.

Coming today to SmallLaw: Our editorial team has selected and linked to 130 articles from the past week worthy of your attention. Below you'll find a sample article from each section of today's issue, including our SmallLaw Pick of the Week.

This Company Wants to Save Your Law Firm

The Secret to Making What You're Worth

The Top 10 Law Firm Marketing Techniques

How Google Ranks Your Law Firm Website

Congratulations to David M. Ward of The Attorney Marketing Center on winning our SmallLaw Pick of the Week award: Read This Before Your Law Firm Opens a Second Office

How to Receive SmallLaw
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. Please subscribe now.

Coming today to SmallLaw: Estate planning lawyer Chandra Lewnau has tried just about every cloud practice management application so we asked her to review ActionStep in this issue of SmallLaw. Since our last review, ActionStep has added significant new functionality as well as an app store. Chandra spent six months evaluating everything from workflows to integration with calendar services to contact management to the new app store and more. Also, don't miss the SmallLaw Pick of the Week for tips on how to create a client referral program based on "centers of influence."

How to Receive SmallLaw
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.