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The Cost Savings in Going Digital

October 16, 2008 13:00

I’m often asked how much money it will cost in staff and time to scan in all of the documents which are generated from outside our own office onto our file server. Essentially, people want to know whether or not...

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Top Ten Things I Expect To See In 2009.

January 06, 2009 05:00

The continued explosion of the use of Twitter by attorneys in order to accumulate their feed content from their blogs. A faster pace for law firm innovation driven by the economic downturn and hyper-competitiveness of the legal market. The first...

Information Super-Overload: Is information overload killing productivity?

January 05, 2009 13:54

Welcome to a new series of Monday posts for the GAL blog called "Information Super-Overload" ("ISO Monday"). Every Monday we will discuss the increased problems of 'too much information" and strategies for dealing with the increased distraction of RSS feeds, twitter updates, Facebook friend...

The Irony Of Google Adwords

January 02, 2009 13:00

There was a recent comment on my blog noting that the Google Advertisements which show up in my right sidebar are heavily weighted towards law office billing software. Because I am constantly blogging about alternative billing systems, Google takes note...

Law Firm With $2 Billon in Annual Revenue Takes Unprecedented Step To Cap Associate Pay

January 01, 2009 13:00

And yet another sure sign that the rules of the game have changed for the big law firms that have dominated the legal landscape over the past decades, Latham & Watkins has now capped associate salaries in 2009. That means...

Regurgitation Thursday: How to Quit Your Law Firm

January 01, 2009 06:58

Topics covered in this episode of GAL Radio:How to quit your law firm. You don't need your firm as much as you think you do.. You don't need to sneak out the back door with files and clients. What would...

If Your Bonus Is Cut In Half This Year, What Will Happen When the Economy Really Takes a Hit Next Year?

December 31, 2008 13:00

Here is a recent article by Julie Triedman of The Am Law Daily blog titled "Following Pack, Davis Polk To Halve Bonuses". Julie reports that more and more Am Law 100 firms are reducing yearly bonuses in order to cut...

Using Mind Map For Advocacy

December 30, 2008 13:00

For those of you who have been following along, you know I’m a big fan of the Mindjet MindManager software. Here is an interesting post from the Settlement Perspectives Blog titled Get To The Point, And Get It Across, With...

Using Litigation as Economic Leverage over Your Adversary

December 29, 2008 21:57

The idea of using litigation as economic leverage is as old as the court system itself. The idea has been perfected under the American system of justice. Blogs such as Overlawyered chronicle the excesses of litigation, primarily focused on personal...

Blawg Review # 192: A Look Back At 2008 In The Legal Blogosphere

December 29, 2008 19:46

This week’s Blawg Review looks back at the 51 Blawg Review issues of 2008 and asks that everyone cast their vote for naming this year’s "Blawg Review of the Year 2008". Here are the rules: The RulesAny of the issues...