Category Archives: Fun

Beer Review – Midas Touch for Mendelson’s Musings

Usually we write about improving law firm efficiency, agile project management techniques, or legal Software as a Service, but we just published a piece on another favorite subject of ours, beer.
Jason Mendelson, whose ABA 100 Blawg Mendelson’s Musings just won it’s category of best business blog, extended us the honor of inaugural guest beer reviewer. [...]

Happy Holidays Everyone!

We at Rocket Matter sincerely wish everyone a happy, healthy, and peaceful holiday season.
Thank you to our readers, customers, CLE participants, fans, and everyone else we’ve encountered this year.  We’re having a great time at Rocket Matter serving the legal community, and if we haven’t met you, email us and introduce yourself, or keep posted [...]

Meet Rocket Matter at Virtual LegalTech & Enter to Win a Snuggie!

Rocket Matter is a proud sponsor of the upcoming inaugural Virtual LegalTech Event put on by ALM Events.
To envision Virtual LegalTech, imagine combining Second Life with a Legal Conference. It’s very cool. When you stop by our booth, we can even initiate a live video and audio chat.

The event goes live on Thursday, November 19th, 2009 and [...]

Rocket Matter Nominated for 2009 Law Technology News Awards

Rocket Matter is nominated for the 2009 Law Technology News Awards for Best Practice Management System and Best Time and Billing for Small and Mid-Sized Firms categories.

Please don’t congratulate us, as we nominated ourselves.  I would be embarrassed.
But it’s important to us to win, since if we win a) we can put a cool-looking ribbon [...]

Rocket Matter Celebrates Two Years Since First Install

Two years ago, the very brave souls of Shiner & Sosin, P.A., a boutique law firm in Boca Raton, FL were the first production users of what we then called “The Product.”
Peter Sosin and David Shiner, just starting out their firm, decided to give the product that would become Rocket Matter a shot.  At the [...]

A Twitter-only Mobile Device: Silly, But It Sends a Message.

Peek makes devices that focus on doing one thing and doing it well.  Their flagship products are mobile email device readers, and that’s all they do: email + text.  In other words, no browser, no apps, nothing fancy.  The interesting thing: people love ‘em.
So when Peek announced a Twitter-only device, reviewers and consumers reacted in [...]

Rocket Matter T-Shirts – Haute Couture for Online Legal Practice Management

Hot off the presses!
Rocket Matter T-Shirts Arrived, a must-have for the legally sassy. Look for people walking around in these at the upcoming LegalTech Show in NYC next week.

Rocket Matter Icon in Mac OS X Dock

Did you know you can put the Rocket Matter rocket ship logo in your Mac OS X dock and launch it directly?
Thanks to Tim Evans, who can be followed on Twitter at @timothyevans, for sharing this image of his desktop.  Using Fluid and a graphic, he created an icon for RM.  You can see his [...]

Productivity Tip: Top 10 Ways to Stay Energized from Lifehacker

Sometimes you come across the perfect article at the perfect time.  Today was one of those chain-coffee-drinking vitamin-B12-popping struggles to get through the tasks until I came across Lifehacker’s Top 10 Ways to Stay Energized.
My favorite tip is “Master the power nap”, complete with a link to the Boston Globe’s Napping Cheat Sheet.  Though it looks [...]

Rocket Matter will present at Business of Software Conference 2008

Some of the software and marketing legends of our time – such as Seth Godin, Joel Spolsky, Jason Fried, to name a few – will be speaking at this year’s Business of Software conference on September 3rd and 4th of 2008 in Boston.
I have been selected to present as well, as part of their Pecha [...]