TECHNOLOGY COSTS SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL?

Tech Experts' Tips for Cutting Back
(and What No Lawyer Should Do Without)

Technology Roundtable

• Tech Costs Spinning Out of Control? What You Should and Shouldn’t Do: Pointers and Predictions for Solos and Small Firms

• ABA TECHSHOW® 2006 Chair Sharon Nelson and a provocative group of legal technologists answer the tough questions keeping solos and small firm lawyers awake at night, from getting a grip on technology spending to preparing for new technologies on tomorrow’s horizon.
  Moderator: Sharon Nelson
  Participants: Craig Ball, Jim Calloway, Dennis Kennedy, Ross Kodner and John Simek

• Blog 2.0: The Next Stage of Lawyer Blogging

• What's in, what's out and what’s coming in the world of law-related Weblogs? Here's the inside story, straight from some of the best lawyer bloggers on the "Net".
  By Tom Mighell
• • Plus: “ Starting Your Blog: Some Tools to Use.”

Speaking With Authority

• Law Firm Administrators Forum: What the Managing Partner Doesn’t Know Could Hurt You

• In leading their firms, managing partners have to focus on so many day-to-day needs—keeping the enterprise aloft, finding work, doing an excellent job for clients, managing people and seeing that enough drops to the bottom line to satisfy constituents—that it’s often hard to focus on the future. Four experienced law firm directors share insights on guiding the firm to where it should be, or wants to be, in coming years.
  John A. Cummens, Forum Organizer

NEW! Technology Directory

• Law Practice Magazine’s Guide to ABA TECHSHOW 2006

• More than 100 of the world’s premier legal technology providers convene annually in Chicago for ABA TECHSHOW®. Here, in an easy-to-access format, we present Law Practice’s first ABA TECHSHOW products and services directory.

nothing.but.net

• Previewing the Newest Internet Explorer: Lessons Learned

• A test-drive of IE 7 shows the browser market still has room to grow.
  By Rick Klau

Who Is...

• Ron Staudt Q&A

• For three decades, this pioneer has promoted technology in legal education and law practice.
  By Mark Tamminga

Tips & Tricks

• How to Navigate PowerPoint Slides Like a Pro

• Pointers that will let you fly around slide presentations.
  By Dan Pinnington
• • Plus: A Tips sidebar.

Hot Buttons

• Unified Threat Management: Are We Dreaming the Impossible Dream?

• We're all frantic for a security cure. But is UTM too good to be true?
  By Sharon Nelson and John Simek

Product Review

• Interwoven's New Business Intake and Conflicts Manager: Can They Handle Your Firm's Work Flow?

• Two new products promise to lead lawyers through each matter's life cycle in step-by-step mode.
  By Ginevra M. Saylor

Profitability

• How to Prepare for Economic Change: 10 Tips

• The time to make positive changes is when times are good.
  By David Bilinsky and Laura Calloway

Managing

• Creating an Alumni Program for Your Firm's Former Employees

• Turnover can be an opportunity.
  By Marcia Pennington Shannon

Rainmaking

• Making Clients Loyal through Service and Satisfaction

• How to retain the clients that are best served by and best suited to you.
  By Susan Saltonstall Duncan

NEW! Series

• Writing Clear and Effective Legal Prose

• Lesson one: Where's the beef?
  By George D. Gopen