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Yes, Your Google Presence Matters
March 30, 2014
In short, your online presence is your living résumé — the best evidence to the world of what you are the very best at. You need to consistently work to build it up. How to go about this? Recognize that past performance is the best predictor of future performance. How can you tailor your online presence to show a pattern of success? Two words: Be specific. If you have hit five home runs in high-stakes litigation, highlight that in your online law firm and LinkedIn biographies. Don't make...
March 30, 2014
In short, your online presence is your living résumé — the best evidence to the world of what you are the very best at. You need to consistently work to build it up. How to go about this? Recognize that past performance is the best predictor of future performance. How can you tailor your online presence to show a pattern of success? Two words: Be specific. If you have hit five home runs in high-stakes litigation, highlight that in your online law firm and LinkedIn biographies. Don't make...
Microsoft Releases Word (and Excel and PowerPoint) for iPad
March 30, 2014
I'm at ABA TECHSHOW in Chicago right now, and the big news on Thursday was that Microsoft released a version of Word (and Excel, and PowerPoint) for the iPad. I have been kicking the tires on this app since it was released Thursday afternoon, and I am incredibly impressed. Unlike Microsoft Office Mobile for iPhone released last year, the new Word app for the iPad has virtually every feature that lawyers want to use. Every attorney who uses an iPad will want to get this app. Unlike...
March 30, 2014
I'm at ABA TECHSHOW in Chicago right now, and the big news on Thursday was that Microsoft released a version of Word (and Excel, and PowerPoint) for the iPad. I have been kicking the tires on this app since it was released Thursday afternoon, and I am incredibly impressed. Unlike Microsoft Office Mobile for iPhone released last year, the new Word app for the iPad has virtually every feature that lawyers want to use. Every attorney who uses an iPad will want to get this app. Unlike...
Billing Survey Shows Rates Ticking Up as Demand Dips
March 30, 2014
Corporate clients purchased fewer hours from law firms in 2013 than they did the year before, even as they paid more for what they bought. Hours were off by 1.3 percent, while fees were up by 1.6 percent. The revenue gain was powered by a 5 percent year-over-year increase in collections during the fourth quarter of 2013. These are among the most telling results of the latest LegalView Legal Market Index, which is produced by TyMetrix, the giant electronic billing clearinghouse and data analytics...
March 30, 2014
Corporate clients purchased fewer hours from law firms in 2013 than they did the year before, even as they paid more for what they bought. Hours were off by 1.3 percent, while fees were up by 1.6 percent. The revenue gain was powered by a 5 percent year-over-year increase in collections during the fourth quarter of 2013. These are among the most telling results of the latest LegalView Legal Market Index, which is produced by TyMetrix, the giant electronic billing clearinghouse and data analytics...
Microsoft Office for iPad – It’s About Time
March 30, 2014
Yep, it’s finally here. After lots of promises and years of delay, Microsoft has finally released a true Office for iPad suite (no more emulations from third parties). Maybe this move is to counter Apple’s semi-recent decision to bundle its iLife apps (Pages, Numbers and Keynote) for free. Maybe they just finally got around to it. Who knows? But here it is, so I figured I should check out exactly what Microsoft is offering to Apple users. As expected, Office for iPad is a collection of three...
March 30, 2014
Yep, it’s finally here. After lots of promises and years of delay, Microsoft has finally released a true Office for iPad suite (no more emulations from third parties). Maybe this move is to counter Apple’s semi-recent decision to bundle its iLife apps (Pages, Numbers and Keynote) for free. Maybe they just finally got around to it. Who knows? But here it is, so I figured I should check out exactly what Microsoft is offering to Apple users. As expected, Office for iPad is a collection of three...
Using Decision Trees in Complex Custody Evaluations
March 30, 2014
Recent interest in cognitive error and flawed decision making have prompted the development of checklists and tools to reduce human biases and inadvertent error from disrupting the process of conducting child custody evaluations. In a field where many levels of complexity and competing hypotheses must be critically examined and judiciously studied, the use of decision-tree methods is a valuable asset for streamlining the collection and integration of data into cogent findings which lead to logical...
March 30, 2014
Recent interest in cognitive error and flawed decision making have prompted the development of checklists and tools to reduce human biases and inadvertent error from disrupting the process of conducting child custody evaluations. In a field where many levels of complexity and competing hypotheses must be critically examined and judiciously studied, the use of decision-tree methods is a valuable asset for streamlining the collection and integration of data into cogent findings which lead to logical...
Bloomberg Law App Keeps Lawyers Current With Instant, Personalized Practice News
March 29, 2014
Bloomberg Law Pat your smartphone on the back: it just got smarter. Or at least less put-down-able. In an apparent effort...
March 29, 2014
Bloomberg Law Pat your smartphone on the back: it just got smarter. Or at least less put-down-able. In an apparent effort...
On Social Media, In-House Lawyers Like to Look
March 29, 2014
How are in-house counsel employing social media? By listening—according to Bev Cline, in a recent article in Lexpert....
March 29, 2014
How are in-house counsel employing social media? By listening—according to Bev Cline, in a recent article in Lexpert....
Jurisdiction in the Facebook Era
March 29, 2014
What cases can be used as precedent when social media hasn’t been around long enough to fill a body of case law on every...
March 29, 2014
What cases can be used as precedent when social media hasn’t been around long enough to fill a body of case law on every...
What the Internet of 2025 Might Look Like
March 29, 2014
David Clark, senior research scientist at MIT: “Devices will more and more have their own patterns of communication, their own ‘social networks,’ which they use to share and aggregate information, and undertake automatic control and activation. More and more, humans will be in a world in which decisions are being made by an active set of cooperating devices. The Internet (and computer-mediated communication in general) will become more pervasive but less explicit and visible. It will, to some...
March 29, 2014
David Clark, senior research scientist at MIT: “Devices will more and more have their own patterns of communication, their own ‘social networks,’ which they use to share and aggregate information, and undertake automatic control and activation. More and more, humans will be in a world in which decisions are being made by an active set of cooperating devices. The Internet (and computer-mediated communication in general) will become more pervasive but less explicit and visible. It will, to some...
7 Tips for Overcoming Paralysis of Analysis
March 28, 2014
No doubt you’ve dedicated yourself to constantly refining your time management skills, blocking distractions, trimming...
March 28, 2014
No doubt you’ve dedicated yourself to constantly refining your time management skills, blocking distractions, trimming...
