FEATURES: BRINGING LAWYERS & TECHNOLOGY TOGETHER

Focus on Profitability: Getting a Handle on Expenses

Edited By John Gilbert (and Sheila Blackford)

In the golden days before the recession came and stayed, law firms knew they were profitable because the work was steady, the overhead manageable, and the office hummed along to the sound of billable hours ticking away. This recession has changed that.

Ten Tips to Supercharge Your On-Line Presence

By Jim Calloway, Nerino Petro, and Reid Trautz

Read these quick tips for maximizing your cyberspace real estate, and open yourself to a world of easy-to-use (and inexpensive) marketing channels.

Take (Back) Your Time! How Legal Professionals Can Control Noise and Be More Productive in the Workplace

By Jim Calloway, Nerino Petro, and Reid Trautz

There are only so many hours in a workday. We like to think that we are in control of our time during those hours -- but most of us, in fact, are not.

MANAGEMENT

How to Select a Translation Agency

By Chanin Ballance

With so many options available, make sure keep these few key points in mind to help make the best selection when looking for translation services.

FINANCE

Back to the Future: Scenarios for Law Firm Planning

By Ed Poll

Reducing the cost of legal services and passing the savings on to the client will be any law firm's winning game plan for future survival.

TECHNOLOGY

Best of ABA TECHSHOW

Security on Steroids: Controlling and Securing Data

By John W. Simek and Sharon D. Nelson

Learn how to protect your data and that of your clients, while at rest, while it's in transit, or when you're on the road.

Creating Standard Response E-mails

By Ben M. Schorr

Sometimes you find yourself sending the same response over and over again and you wish you just had a canned answer that you could give those folks and save yourself the time of retyping and retyping and retyping.

Consideration to a Document Management System

By Sarah Nelson

If your New Year's resolutions include better organization, responding faster to clients, or even spending more time outside of the office, then perhaps it is time to give serious consideration to a document management system.

MEET THE WOMEN RAINMAKERS!

Joan B. Tucker Fife

Interview by Sara Holtz

Quickly acknowledging your own mistakes and being quick to give others due credit is one of the paramount relationship building skills of this Winston & Strawn Partner.