Category Archives: Free Stuff

Legal Trust Accounting: What are the Most Common Blunders?

By Larry Port on July 22, 2010

Dan Mills, the Practice Management Advisor of the D.C. Bar, answered a request I put out the other day to noted experts in the field of client fund management.
My question: What are the most common mistakes lawyers make with their trust accounts which results in disciplinary action?
1. Not understanding the applicable rule regarding [...]

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The Pomodoro Technique – Supercharge Your Efficiency + Legal Productivity (Part 1)

By Larry Port on March 11, 2010

Let’s face it: lawyers have to wear a lot of hats. Before you know it, your day can be over and you feel like you’ve gotten nothing accomplished.
Like the Getting Things Done personal organizational system, The Pomodoro Technique is popular in technology circles but I haven’t seen a wide discussion of it in Legal. [...]

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A Small Law Firm’s Best Friend – The Practice Management Advisor

By Larry Port on March 3, 2010

If a small law firm had to pick only one of the many resources for building a thriving and ethics-aware practice, I would recommend the Practice Management Advisor, or PMA.
We’ve worked with a number of PMA’s for feedback on our software so we can best serve the needs of law firms. They are bar-none (no [...]

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iPad Envy? Save Money with Gadget Spa Day

By Larry Port on January 27, 2010

Today marks the much awaited announcement of the Apple iPad. Considering that people’s mouths were watering over the non-event of the iPhone 3G S launch last year, the arrival of the tablet is garnering, as many have observed, the type of interest reserved only for other tablets delivered to the masses several millenia ago [...]

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Free Workbook for Lawyers: Get Organized and Take Action in 2010

By Larry Port on January 20, 2010

If you’re not subscribed to Ari Kaplan’s newsletter, go check it out.  It’s one of the few newsletters I’ve signed up for that I regularly read.  Every time it comes out, he offers great tips and articles which are immediately actionable.
This time he’s offering for free workbook from his “Seven Secrets of Opportunity Making Success” [...]

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