3 Tips to Beat Procrastination
Feeling overwhelmed by your work and unable to get started? Try these quick tips to help get you back on track.
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Recent Washington Supreme Court Decision: Disciplinary Proceeding Against Pfefer
A recent Washington Supreme Court decision highlights the importance of a lawyer’s professional duty to act diligently.
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Do You Keep Original Wills? Best Practices Say No
If you have ever wondered what to do with original wills, consider the following best practices to help you decide.
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Catch the New Advisory Opinions on Social Media and Lead Generation
Two new advisory opinions have recently been posted to help attorneys follow the RPCs while navigating the Internet. Take a look at these to steer clear in the areas of social media and Internet marketing.
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Friday 5: Ways to Nurture Your Brain and Improve Your Work
Feeling a bit sluggish after the holidays? You’re not alone. Try these five helpful tips to get your brain’s neurons firing in the new year. You can read more in Helen Ling’s full article, “Brain Science and Lawyering: Paying Attention to Your Body and Brain to Improve the Quality of Your Work,” in the Dec […]
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Dwyer v. Cappell: Court upholds lawyer’s right to quote judges’ praise in website advertising
In advertising on your law firm website, wouldn’t you love to feature praise like this from judges? [Your name here] is, I think, an exceptional lawyer, one of the most exceptional lawyers I’ve had the pleasure of appearing before me…
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Friday 5: Tax Time
As the end of the year approaches, everyone knows what that means: tax time is just around the corner. Because most taxpayers operate on a calendar basis, it is important to consider your upcoming tax situation before the year ends, while it’s not too late for “damage control.”
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Immigration Reform Implications for High-tech Workers and Entrepreneurs
The actions announced by President Obama on Nov. 20 will affect not only millions of undocumented individuals but also many American businesses, foreign national employees and their families, and certain highly skilled innovators.
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Beware of Bad Check Scams Aimed at Lawyers
This post serves as a follow-up to the blog post, “Don’t Fall for Email Check Scams,” published in 2012. Unfortunately, in the world of fraud, “bad check” scams targeting lawyers show no signs of going away, and in many cases seem to be getting more sophisticated.
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Make the Most of Your Millennial
Now that millennials are here to stay, here are a few tips and tricks for getting the most out of your younger workforce, from a voice with the inside scoop.
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Legal Tech Startup Weekend Post-Mortem
When you last heard from us, we were in the buildup to Seattle’s first-ever Legal Technology Startup Weekend, held the weekend of Oct. 10, 2014, at WeWork. As a refresher, Startup Weekend is a nonprofit organization that hosts three-day competitions where teams develop and launch startup enterprises.
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Mission Possible: Post-Launch Debrief
Mission Possible launched Oct. 1 — a webcast of 30-minute overarching segments on the new legal market and new practitioner, smart marketing, emerging business models, and 15-minute spotlight pieces by leading minds exemplifying key ideas within those broad-stroke concepts.
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Law Firm Blogging Returns to Its Roots
The landscape of law firm digital marketing is constantly changing; with Google algorithm updates, evolving search engine optimization (SEO) techniques, more algorithm updates, increases in local online competitiveness, the Get Noticed Get Found (GNGF) team (including me, its Chief Information Officer) is constantly adapting our strategy to help clients get found via organic search.
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Innovation in the Practice of Law: Here and Now
The Necessary Tools Are at Hand. We have the tools available. The fix starts with the realization of what technology tools have the potential to do, how they can improve not only our efficiency and bottom lines, but our deliverables, our clients’ experiences, our satisfaction with our practices, and our risk overhead. To bring these […]
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The Paperless Continuum (Paperless, Part 2)
Read Part 1 of this series. Most law firms are neither paper-full, nor completely and truly paperless. They are somewhere on the continuum of less paper or more paper. Are you one of these types?
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The Paperless Party: Benefits of a Lighter Load (Paperless, Part 1)
Thinking of going paperless? Many of the lawyers I talk to think that the idea of having less paper in their office is super-attractive. But when you say “paperless” to them, it sounds like a ton of work. Going completely paperless is a major revamp of systems and can be significant work, but it is […]
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