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for: ‘January, 2009’

What's Your Practice, In Six Words?

Lawyers are communicators and wordsmiths, right? But can they be succinct, pithy? Here’s your challenge of the day. Describe your practice, in six words*. Every sentence in this post complies. None over the six word limit. We did it, but can you? Some examples, in no particular order: Please, please see it my way. – …

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Kicking This Word Addiction Ain't Easy

Sam Glover, who operates the Lawyerist blog, recently posted an item exhorting lawyers to give up on Microsoft Word and move to OpenOffice or other free or web-based word processing systems (“Microsoft Word is a habit you can kick,” 1/21/09). I agreed with the gist of the post and added the following comment. The reality …

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While Waiting for the Bus . . .

These days I am getting a lot of my news from the bus stop. Here’s the gist: “They are closing our Minneapolis office…” “We are not filling our open positions…” “Well I don’t want to work on this project, but this isn’t the time to complain…” Like all employers, the MSBA is concerned about the …

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At Last Count, 40 New Probate Forms Coming

We seem to stay constantly busy at practicelaw developing new forms, which currently include new forms in  the probate, practice management, civil litigation and family law areas. The first set of new forms to be released this Spring will likely be in probate, where at last count we had 40 new forms under development. This …

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Lawyers Using Social Media? Hardly

The first of a series of posts on practicelaw’s annual survey results Beginning last year, practicelaw began an annual survey of its users (and a few who don’t use the service) to determine how we are doing and how to plan for future directions. We’ll be posting here with this year’s results, including questions that …

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