Web & Tech

In theory, I like the idea of live blogging – at least when someone else is doing it.  When I read through a live-blogged, play-by-play entry, it’s almost as good as being at the conference myself.  Plus, even if I actually attended the event, it’s interesting to read about it from someone else’s perspective. But…

I know that I have blogging to thank for my invitation to speak at this year’s ABA Tech Show and I am incredibly excited.  I consider myself fortunate because I’m really a practical technologist at heart, rather than a gadgety person.  I choose technology in a practical manner, based strictly on how much it costs…

Yesterday marked the launch of JD Supra, a document database and attorney listing site that’s important for solo and small firm lawyers for two reasons.  First, JD Supra gives practitioners access to an enormous database of filings, newsletters and memoranda prepared by other law firms.  While a good deal of the information that I’ve seen…

I don’t cover technology here much at MyShingle.  It’s not that I don’t recognize its importance to solos – in fact, more than any other tool, technology has shattered barriers to entry.   It’s just that others like Future Lawyer, Ross Kodner, Victor Medina, or Greatest American Lawyer cover technology so much better that I…

Like most of my solo and small firm colleagues,  I’m a fan of online networking, i.e., building meaningful and trusted relationships through listserves, Linkedin.com and Facebook.com and blogs.  Not only do these online tools help us find clients or share our knowlege and expertise with others and improve the quality of the profession at large,…

Having blogged for over five years now, I’ve amassed a considerable body of archives, both here and here (pre 11/2004).  But does anyone read archives?  With so much currently available information, do blog readers ever re-visit the past? I don’t want my older posts to fall into obscurity, so please let me know (1) whether…

As my regular readers know, I’m a major fan of videos – and I’ve been tracking solos’ use of videos for marketing in posts here and here. And I see today that my Third Wave colleague Chuck Newton has posted on the topic as well. More and more solos are using videos to convey their…

Here’s a video trailer that I created for my upcoming book, Solo by Choice: How to Be the Lawyer You Always Wanted to Be. It’s a proof of concept in learning how to use my iMac software. Unfortunately, I’m still learning how to use the editing tools, so the transitions aren’t entirely smooth and there’s…