Law Practice Today

   September 2008

How Not to be a Staff Nightmare: Avoiding Turnover Syndrome

By Ellen Freedman
Retaining good staff is always a challenge. Keep this advice in mind to help keep turnover low and productivity high.

Staff Support Success

By Wendy Werner
Your staff can be a partner in your success, but it's critical that you hire well, supervise effectively, and let go when necessary.

Working with a Virtual Assistant: What Lawyers and Administrators Should Know

By Andrea Cannavina
You may not be ready or able to hire a full-time assistant. The emerging industry of virtual assistants may be able to help you in a timely, cost effective way.

How to Manage Your First Legal Assistant

By Jennifer Rice
A young lawyer offers advice on how to develop a productive working relationship with your assistant, to the benefit of your practice and your sanity.

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Technology Tips

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Columns

Management Tips and Tricks

Socialized Marketing: Lawyers and the Social Networking Phenomenon

By Edward Poll
Social networking sites are all of the rage, but how do should they be used by lawyers? Advice regarding best uses and ways to avoid pitfalls in using these potentially powerful tools.

Monthly Marketing Brief

Weiss' Monthly Marketing Brief - September 2008

By Bob Weiss
Most lawyers struggle with their individual business development because they don't reach enough people, or they don't contact those people they know frequently enough.

Management

Will Your Firm Survive Despite the Economy?

By Steven J. Best
Practical suggestions about how to manage your firm successfully in a time of shrinking resources, while you prepare for the coming recovery.

Law Practice magazine

Law Practice Magazine Web Only Feature

This special Web-only feature from the September 2008 issue of Law Practice magazine gives practical suggestions for managing your firm successfully in a time of shrinking resources. For more strategies on guiding your firm through the economic slump, including What Not to Do in the Downturn , read the current issue of Law Practice online.

Technology

Beginning with this issue, Law Technology Today has become a part of Law Practice Today webzine. Hot topics in law office and litigation technology will continue be addressed here, along with other practice management issues in management, finance, and marketing. ABA will automatically enroll current Law Technology Today subscribers with subscriptions to Law Practice Today.

Tech Updates

By Joe Kashi
Joe Kashi discusses recent technology he's tried and found useful to the litigator.

How Lawyers Practice Law and Service Clients with Macs - Really!

By Jeff Richardson and Ben Stevens
While most lawyers are wedded to the PC, these two lawyers enumerate the advantages of the Mac, for work, for home, and for the pure enjoyment of it.

Originally Presented at ABA TECHSHOW 2008


THE DIGITAL EDGE: LAWYERS AND TECHNOLOGY PODCAST SERIES

The Digital Edge: Lawyers and Technology

Outlook 2007 with Ben Schorr

by Sharon D. Nelson and Jim Calloway

Sharon Nelson and Jim Calloway talk with Ben Schorr, author of the newly released book, " The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007."

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The 2008 Solo and Small Firm Legal Technology Guide

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