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Posts
- “Tiger insights” will improve your practice
- 5 Keys to Better Law Firm Systems
- 80/20 Efficiency & Melinda Gates
- 80/20 Rule of Marketing: How To Apply It to Your Legal Practice
- 80% is good enough
- A 5-Step Process to Document Workflows
- A little-known success principle
- A Master Class in persuasiveness
- A mobile lawyer is a paperless lawyer
- A new way for attorneys to gather documents
- A simple, powerful system
- A template for federal district court pleadings – my gift to you.
- ABA Litigation News article on Law Blogs
- Adapting to disruptive change in a pandemic
- Advice for law students: pay attention to the ones and zeros
- Advice for managing E-mail – Productivity Tips
- Advice to a New Lawyer
- AI Chatbots for Lawyers (a short guide)
- An A.I. tool that lawyers will absolutely love
- An important distinction
- An Introduction to “Standard Thinking Errors”
- An Invisible Problem
- AppSumo saves lawyers money on software
- Are you in an abusive relationship with technology?
- Authenticity
- Automated Referrals for Solo Lawyers
- Automated Scheduling for Lawyers
- Automation: Basic Overview
- Best marketing books for lawyers
- Best SOP Software for Law Firms
- Best SOP tool for Solo & Small Firm Attorneys
- Beware of the friendly fool
- Boring & predictably profitable business strategies
- Building systems for your law firm
- ChatGPT for Lawyers: Leverage it or Become Irrelevant & Useless
- Checklists = automation
- Choosing the Right Lawyer Firm: A Step-by-Step Guide
- Client Communications for Law Firms
- Compartmentalizing legal regimes is increasingly ineffective
- Congresspedia, et al.
- Context is King
- Contrived Enthusiasm
- Creating Systems: Leveraging Technology
- Creativity versus Conformity
- Crisis Management & OODA
- Critical Thinking
- Crunch Time
- Cyber Security for Lawyers
- Cybersecurity for Remote Lawyers
- Digital Knowledge Work
- Do lawyers need permission to be remarkable?
- Do we really know how AI works?
- Documenting Your Law Firm Systems: The 3 P’s
- Don’t Draw the Owl (It’s Already Been Drawn)
- Ed Sheeran vs. Copyright Law
- Educational Email Marketing for Lawyers
- Effective management
- Effective Outsourcing for Lawyers
- Effectiveness versus Efficiency
- Email Automation for Lawyers
- Email Efficiency Tricks & E-Discovery Tips
- Envisioning Your Ideal Practice: The Process
- Essential Practice Management Books for Lawyers
- Essential, Uncommon Advice
- Everything is figureoutable
- Five Pillars of Working Smarter in Law
- Focus on this, says Jeff Bezos
- Foolish Marketing for Lawyers
- Free marketing for lawyers
- Geeks On Call can help erase incriminating files too
- Getting Meaningful Support
- Going solo – what people have said to me.
- Good typography promotes readability; and remember the 5 monkeys
- Google now helps with legal research
- Helping solo lawyers transform their law practices
- Hemingway’s strange trick
- Hidden Opportunities
- How a restauraunteur can help you with law practice management
- How AI Is Changing the Way We Practice Law
- How Asynchronous Communication Improves Lawyer Efficiency
- How ChatGPT helps Lawyers: What You Need to Know
- How lawyers can use technology better
- How to build trust online
- How to Document a Procedure (SOP)
- How to document workflows in law practice
- How to Gather Great Client Testimonials
- How to Inform Lawyers You’re Leaving The Firm
- How to kick start your practice
- How to Protect Your Law Firm’s Passwords
- How To Stop Lawyer Burnout
- How to Take Screenshots on a Mac Computer
- How you look at problems is vital
- Human Nature: Understanding Our Hidden Logic
- Improve your passwords
- Improve your thinking
- Inconsequential advice
- Insight vs. Information
- Is This Why You’re Overwhelmed?
- Is your practice a happy one?
- It’s not just about money
- It’s hidden in plain sight
- Jettisoning Email
- Know Your Numbers
- Law Firm marketing with weblogs
- Law Firm Technology
- Law Firm Technology Principles
- Law schools (and law firms) are beset by unmanageable change.
- Lawyer Confidentiality: Communicate with Clients Without Breach
- Legal Ethics for Lawyers Using AI
- Legal ethics guru says social media may be harmful
- Legal outsourcing
- Legal problems – what exactly is a legal problem?
- Legal Project Management: How Is It Done?
- Legal Project Management: Tips, Strategies, and Pitfalls to Avoid
- LegalTech – Preliminary Thoughts
- Lemons to lemonade (in a pandemic)
- Let’s break the P2P file-trading logjam
- Leverage = $4,667 per hour
- Linda the Teller
- Little Big Firm
- Low-cost lawyers at BigLaw
- Low-hanging fruit? It’s a myth
- Lucrative Problem Solving
- Mental Models for lawyers
- Mentoring new lawyers & providing free CLE
- Mobility, Simplicity, Connectivity, & Security
- More cheese. Less whiskers.
- My crazy idea for how to improve continuing legal education
- My new law firm – Svenson Law Firm
- My podcast interview with Enrico Shaefer about my new venture
- NLMAO – unfunny lawyers who don’t want change
- Not for everyone
- Not what it seems
- Obsession with accuracy in legal writing
- On My Radar – Videoconferencing & Screensharing
- On-boarding New Clients to Make Them Feel Special
- Online Billing = peace of mind
- Operational Efficiency – Part II
- Operational Efficiency – Part III
- Operational Efficiency – Part IV
- Operational Efficiency – what it really means
- Opportunities, threats & solutions
- Our profession’s in crisis?
- Outsource Drudgery
- Outsourcing effectively
- Outsourcing Your Law Firm’s Bookkeeping is Blissful
- Overcoming Mental Barriers
- Password managers & cybersecurity protection for lawyers
- Piggybacking to success
- Play the long game
- Plug-in systems for your law practice
- Precision vs. Good Legal Writing
- Problems with Findlaw?
- Procrastinate On Purpose
- Professionalism: lawyer emails
- Profit from your ideas
- Question everyone & everything
- Quitting the law to pursue a ‘dream job’
- Radical Improvement
- Ransomware Preparedness: A Guide for Lawyers
- Referral Marketing for Lawyers
- Referral marketing for lawyers
- Scheduling Automation: a Quick Question
- Search Skills for Lawyers: Enhancing Legal Research Efficiency
- Second Order Thinking
- Security analysis for lawyers: poor, to fairly cloudy
- Sensible Growth
- Setting Boundaries in Your Business
- Shifting Legal Thinking with Pattern Recognition
- Should Democrats court “gun enthusiasts?”
- Simple Wisdom
- Simple, effective marketing for lawyers
- Speaking in New Orleans tomorrow on Paperless lawyering
- Standard Operating Procedures for Lawyers
- Starting a New Law Firm
- Stop waiting…
- Strategic Marketing for Lawyers
- Streamlining through systems
- Subscription legal services?
- SWOT for lawyers
- Systems & Automation for Lawyers
- Systems & Creativity
- Systems Thinking
- Technology is changing our legal system
- Technology Training for Paralegals (and lawyers)
- Tetris & Digital Systems
- Text Automation for Lawyers
- The ‘5 Whys’ is a Powerful Problem Solving Tool
- The #1 key to a smoother-running firm
- The #1 law of systems
- The 3 critical factors for law firm growth
- The 3 Types of Clients
- The 5 Levels of Delegation for Lawyers
- The 80/20 Principle for Lawyers
- The 80/20 principle is a hidden power lever
- The best kind of law firm marketing & how to do it better…
- The Best Legal Tech Conferences for Lawyers
- The Curse of Knowledge
- The easiest way to get more good work
- The hidden value of social media: a case study for lawyers
- The Importance of a Professional Lawyer Email Address
- The Importance of Core Values
- The importance of crafting your law firm’s vision
- The importance of symbols & rules.
- The Importance of Using Systems
- The Invisible Problem
- The Law Clerk Chronicles
- The Law Clerk Chronicles – Citation Pendantry
- The Law Clerk Chronicles – Proper Use of Magistrates
- The most effective way to attract more great clients
- The problem with proposed laws called SOPA and PIPA
- The secret to a happy practice
- The Top Law Firm Tools
- The Two Most Important Rules
- The Virtue of Omission
- The worst client ever
- Thinking is hard, and changing bad thinking is harder still
- Three Key Insights for Working Smarter
- Time Management Tips for Lawyers
- Top notch office service for solo lawyers
- Top Tech Tools for Lawyers
- Trouble getting clients?
- True Independence
- Twitter, for lawyer marketing? Seriously?!
- Two Factor Authentication for Lawyers
- Ugly Truths About Law Practice Management Software
- Ultimate Guide to QR Codes: Don’t use them; they don’t work
- Uncommon Insight
- Unnecessary complexity
- Upcoming Paperless Webinar
- Urgent versus Important tasks
- Useless criticism should be ignored
- Using Authenticator Apps to Enhance Login Security
- Virtual assistants for lawyers – the best one I’ve found
- Virtual assistants that are affordable and super helpful
- Vision and Traction
- Voxer for Lawyers: Asynchronous Communication on Steroids
- Wanna be a lawyer? Well, get thee to a courtroom!
- Warren Buffet knows this…
- What it feels like to create systems
- What lawyers need to know about Phishing attacks
- What telephone system should solo lawyers have?
- What’s common sense got to do with it?
- Who I can help
- Who I can help and how?
- Who is censoring your information?
- Why clients don’t trust you enough to hire you
- Why law review is worthless
- Why PDF Security for Lawyers is Crucial
- Why psychology matters more than…
- Why should lawyers do email marketing?
- Why should the press have special protection?
- Why you should envision your ideal law practice
- Work ON your business
- Would you like a jazz band with that meal?
- Write to Build Trust With Complete Strangers
- Your best clients HATE this
- Your clever profile picture is totally unhelpful.
- Your grave misconception
- Your mindset influences your vision
- Your Reputation Depends on This
