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Cybersecurity Lobbying Booming: How Law Firms Can Profit
Social Media Law Report - Who Owns Your LinkedIn Account, FTC Guidance on Social Ads, More...
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The Growing Role of Social Media in Litigation and How to Prepare for It
Safeguards against Data Security Breaches (Part Two)
How to Protect Your Company From Hackers
How Facebook's Lawyers Price Their Services
What Companies Should Do to Prepare for Implementation of Cybersecurity Executive Order
Two Key Elements Every Social Media Policy Should Include
Jeff Ifrah on the Historic Legalization of Online Gaming in New Jersey
How to Respond to President Obama's Cybersecurity Executive Order
May 2 (Bloomberg Law) -- Just as legal process outsourcers are stealing business from law firms today by doing it cheaper, they too will face pressure in the coming years from technologies that can do the the job even cheaper...more
April 5 (Bloomberg Law) -- In recent months, a wave of lawyers and consultants have taken to lobbying various members of the federal government on cybersecurity issues. David Ransom, partner at McDermott Will & Emery, talks...more
March 7 (Bloomberg Law) -- Silicon Valley's Fenwick & West -- which incorporated Apple and took Facebook public -- recently hired a new kind of staff position: a product manager charged with helping clients understand the...more
This ebook will serve as a practical how-to manual with best practices for lawyers wishing to collaborate with branded networks to market their law practice, deliver legal services to clients online, and for lawyer brand...more
I’d like to share with you some personal recommendations of blogs that made the ABA Journal’s 2012 list of top 100 law blogs, or “blawgs.” I’m also including some blogs recommended by my colleague, patent attorney Michael...more
Why People are Careless about Internet Privacy - If you are like me, you have probably wondered why people choose to share so much about themselves and their families on Facebook. Why do people treat the social media...more
The September theme of The Legal Connection Newsletter is Tech + Cool. I share with you some thoughts on the topic; Barbara Nelson uses technology to create a wordle. Microsoft MVP Ben Schorr shares with us his...more
Is your name difficult to pronounce? Use Audioname to record your name and add it to your email signature. This way clients can hear you pronounce your name in your own voice. Audioname’s service will also accommodate a...more
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A cultivation of the best tips posted on Twitter relating to marketing, social media, and technology for lawyers....more
This article discusses the fact that technology has changed the way the practice of law looks, but has not changed the fact that, as lawyers, we have a professional obligation to provide our clients with timely, competent,...more
At the recent American Society of Trial Consultants convention in New Orleans, I was part of a wide-ranging panel discussion on social media and marketing that considered the benefits and effects of blogging and other social...more
Earlier this year, I embarked on a months-long process of building a new, more sophisticated and customized website, which I’m happy to unveil at cogentlegal.com. This post will share some of what I learned about website...more
The spread of disruptive technologies to the legal profession is changing the dynamic of how law firms are structured as well as the value propositions associated with the delivery of legal services. The number of law firms...more
Sorting out social media - tips for lawyers using Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and other social media resources....more
I have been encountering a lot of magical thinking recently when talking with law firm partners about Legal Project Management. One partner, hoping that the IT and KM folks can simply buy a tech solution so that he could...more
Delivered on December 20, 2011, as the ethics portion of the Seattle, Washington, Continuing Legal Education seminar (CLE) "Find it Free and Fast on the Net: Strategies for Legal Research on the Web." ...more
Written for the ethics portion of the Seattle Continuing Legal Education (CLE) seminar text "Find it Free and Fast on the Net: Strategies for Legal Research on the Web.” Michael Kaiser presented the ethics portion of the...more
Time sheets – the bane of lawyers everywhere – you can’t live with them and you can’t live without them. The endless debate continues as to whether in this era of AFA’s, fixed fees and the like, lawyers and law firm...more
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This August ILTA, in partnership with InsideLegal, administered the annual ILTA/InsideLegal Technology Purchasing Survey. The annual survey includes many of the categories covered in past years, and has been enhanced to...more
From the May 2011 edition of the Palm Beach Bar Bulletin, here is the Lawyer's Guide to Sending Large PDF Documents by Email. Send large PDF, JPEG and other files to clients without fear of hitting email file size limits. ...more
You can wow clients with a free, scannable QR code on your business card, and a SearchMe button in your LinkedIn profile, blog and email signature. Each produces a Google search with links that you select....more
To make a killer first impression, put a free scannable QR code on your business card, and a SearchMe button on your LinkedIn profile, blog and email signature. They will create a Google search with the best links about you. ...more
Handout of top ten lists for best smartphone apps on iPhone/iPad, Android, and Blackberry platforms. From a March 2011 seminar hosted by the Palm Beach County Bar Association....more
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