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Solo and small firm lawyers can level the playing field with both big law and the legal services industry by expanding their legal services delivery methods while ensuring the success and sustainability of their practices. Technology enables lawyers to provide competent representation at an affordable cost to clients without sacrificing their bottom line.

Join us and learn how to use cost-effective 2.0 technology, project management principles, and alternative fee agreements to start and grow your practice with efficiency in our evolving legal marketplace.

Donna Seyle is an attorney, blogger and Founder of Law Practice Strategy, an information center dedicated to the future of law practice and legal technology, focusing on the needs of solos and small firms. Donna is a member of the ABA-LPM’s eLawyering Task Force Committee, where she works with virtual law practice thought leaders on innovative uses of cloud technology for solos and small firms, and to improve access to justice. In addition, she is a member of the State Bar of California’s Executive Committee on Law Practice Management & Technology section, where she chairs the sub-committee for the section’s bi-monthly ezine. She is author of the recently-published book, Law Practice Strategy: Creating a New Business Model for Solos and Small Firms.

Click here to register for Solos And Small Firms: Thrive In The New Legal Marketplace

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Join us at 12:00pm EST this Thursday, December 15th, for another can’t miss webinar entitled The Ethics of Legal Cloud Computing.

As the popularity of cloud computing continues to soar, what do some bar associations think about it? Early on in the game, some pretty influential bar associations, such as the ABA, California, Pennsylvania and North Carolina have stated that attorneys must use due diligence and use the cloud responsibly.

Learn some of the key questions to ask, the potential risks, and how to maximize your client confidentiality when considering using the cloud in your practice. Click here to register for The Ethics of Legal Cloud Computing and get a better handle on the tremendous benefits and responsibilities of using the cloud in your practice.

Her new book features the added benefit of feedback from readers and gives some good answers to some tough real world questions.

The webinar is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 17th at 12:00pm EST. Some of the topics we will address in this webinar include:

• How much do solos really earn, and how can I find out?
• Do I need a business plan? What do I include?
• Effective and affordable marketing strategies for new firms.
• Where to find affordable legal reasearch.

Click here to register for the webinar, but hurry because seating is limited! This webinar is sure to be popular, and will be packed with good information.

Carolyn Elefant is a practicing lawyer with a firm in Washington D.C. focusing on emerging renewables, federal eminent domain, appeals and social media and privacy concerns in the regulated utility industry and smart grid. She writes the popular blog MyShingle.com, launched in 2002 and maintains StartingaLawFirmOnlineGuide.com. Along with Nicole Black, Carolyn is co-author of Social Media for Lawyers: The Next Frontier.

Based on the title, you may be thinking that you can do something special to change your life, in 20 minutes a day. Actually, it’s what you don’t do that can add time back to your work life in 20 minute increments.

As strange as that sounds, it’s actually pretty simple. According to Winifred Galagher, and the study Attention and the Focused Life, the human brain can take up to 20 minutes to recover from each and every interruption you encounter during a typical work day. Imagine you are completely engaged, on billable time, composing a lengthly letter. Then imagine you get interrupted by a colleague inquiring about happy hour this Friday.

You have just disengaged completely from the task at hand and your brain can easily take up to 20 minutes to recover. Now imagine this scenario played out 3 times per day, with various small interruptions. Imagine what that can do to your work day. How about your work week? What can you accomplish in an extra hour per day? If you’re completely focused, it can be an awful lot.

For more good information on why you cannot manage time, you can only manage yourself, simply click here for a quick glance at the webinar slides in an easy to read PDF document. Spend just a few minutes on this and find out how you can help make up for lost time. Also stay tuned for updates on our upcoming webinars. For more information on how to get more from your workday, click below for our free E-book on legal productivity!

Our goal: to redefine the standards for online continuing legal education.

With RocketCLE, users can purchase and view entertaining and high-quality CLE courses over the Internet at anytime of the day. Our initial content focuses on legal ethics and Rocket Matter’s core message of improved productivity and law firm efficiency.

For the past few years, we’ve been conducting webinars, writing books, and participating in online discussion about ways to reduce risk of malpractice and boost profitability at law firms. Last year we began our new blog, Legal Productivity, and released a free e-book of the same name.

RocketCLE is a natural extension of the resources we’ve been offering our customers. We’ve always focused on providing excellent software, and now with online CLE we’re beginning to offer small law firms even more quality resources to compete with larger organizations.

The first five courses include an originally produced hour video, “Seven Ways To Make Your Law Firm More Effective”, covering much of the material in our Legal Productivity e-book. All courses are available for accreditation in Florida, while Illinois, California, Texas, and New York applications are pending and many more states honor reciprocal CLE credits.

Other initial courses include:

Amazing Ethics Violations – a hilarious send up of programs such as Larry King Live + Maury Povich by Stuart Teicher and Sean Carter.

Why Solos and Small Law Firms Should Work With Contract Lawyers and How to Do It from the genius mind of Lisa Solomon, contract lawyer and SOLOSEZ superstar.

Thou Shall Not Lie, Cheat, and Steal – another program by CLE comedian Sean Carter.

Take Control of Your Time, Your Technology, And Your Profits: The Keys to a Safer, More Profitable Practice and a Saner Life – a piece of organizational wizardry by Dustin Cole, sure to help you get a handle on your overconnected life.

Also – customers using Rocket Matter’s legal practice management software enjoy 50% discounts off all online CLE content!

Here’s a clip from one of our videos:

Please join us today, November 18th at 12PM EST for Take Control of Your Time, Your Technology — And Your Profits: The Keys to a Safer, More Profitable Practice and a Saner Life

FREE CLE for Florida Attorneys.

We see oodles of law firms all over the world chugging away, so we at Rocket Matter are no strangers to the operations of the small law firm. Quite the opposite, after servicing firms for nearly three years we have a good handle on what works and what doesn’t.

That’s why I’m excited for tomorrow’s webinar hosted by Lisa Solomon, Esq: How to Work With Contract Lawyers to Save Your Firm Money, Increase Profits, and Get Your Life Back. By employing contract attorneys, small firms can scale efficiently, getting more done at an attractive price point for their clients.

Best part: Lisa’s webinar is FREE and is valid for 1HR of FL Bar CLE credit. Attorneys in other states will receive a certificate of completion that can be used to apply to their state bar associations.

Click Here to Register for How to Work With Contract Lawyers to Save Your Firm Money, Increase Profits, and Get Your Life Backon Thursday, September 23rd at 12PM EDT.

FREE!  Download our Resource Kit: Understanding Social Media for Legal Professionals: Fact vs Fiction.   It’s a free, multi-media resource guide with a white paper, podcast, and other resources.

This webinar is sponsored by Rocket Matter, the leading online legal practice management and time tracking software, and is free to attend!

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* FREE CLE Credit for attendees who pay attention!
* Date: Thursday, August 26th, 2010
* Time: 12PM – 1:15PM EST
* In addition, our podcast and YouTube channel are great resources for trends in legal productivity, technology, and managing your practice.

Description:

Although lawyers try to stay far away from numbers, tracking numbers in your practice can be one of the most instructive activities you do. This webinar will show you how to track your more profitable activities, chart the growth of your firm, and will help you highlight gaps and leaks in your practice. Running a more efficient practice can help you reduce the chance of committing malpractice and will help you be a more effective manager.

Join us for a fun, highly interactive session that could help put you ahead of your peers.

Outline:

* Problems lawyers encounter by not tracking performance indicators.
* How to get started tracking performance.
* How you can chart the growth of your firm.
* Which key performance indicators are most important for your practice.

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About our speaker, Victor Medina:

Victor J. Medina, managing partner of Medina Law Group, devotes his practice to estate planning, helping parents and grandparents to leave their wealth to whom they want, when they want them to have it, and in the way they want. His clients include seniors, young families with minor children, lies with special needs children of all ages, entrepreneurs with business considerations, and established families with dynasty goals. His philosophy of estate planning is based on a forward-thinking approach that focuses on passing on more than just financial wealth, but also spiritual, emotional, and intellectual values.

Victor grew up in the Northeast and attended college and law school in Boston, MA. He is married to Jennifer, a school psychologist in the New Jersey public schools, and has two sons, Aidan and Lucas, who are of school age.

Victor is an active member of the legal community and serves as Vice-President of the Princeton Bar Association. He is also a member of the National Network of Estate Planning Attorneys, American Association of Trust, Estate& Elder Law Attorneys, and the Mercer County Estate Planning Council. He is accredited by the Department of Veteran Affairs to assist veterans in filing claims.

*CLE Accreditation will be supplied for FL attorneys. A certificate of completion will be provided for folks in other states.

If ya missed it, no worries. Here are some Tweets of wisdom sent out during the session, as well as a slidecast and audio recording of “Maximizing Productivity with the Emails Glutting Your Inbox”

Today, @PeekInc observes their business users average over 100 emails a day – a significant increase from before.

Less Time on Email Tip: Don’t Respond Right Away to emails. Make sure to avoid conversations; use the phone for those.

Mobile email is not about productivity, but rather about liberation. – @AmolSarva @PeekInc

Consider using email for note taking and task management.

Poll Results: Do You Get Too Many Emails? See results.

Inbox Anxiety … fear of being away from email for too long or feeling overwhelmed by messages upon return. – @PeekInc

Poll results: Do you have a systematic approach to using email? See results.

Ask yourself: Do you consider email to be a high-value usage of your time? #RMWebinar

Consider providing staff with affordable access to mobile email. The avg worker will work an additional hour a day. @PeekInc #RMWebinar

“Mobilizing” your team is an inevitability. – @AmolSarva #RMWebinar

Peek’s fast, focused, and cost-efficient mobile has helped many lawyers and professionals stay better connected to their customers through always-on, always-with-you email. Along the way, Peek has collected many best practices for maximizing productivity in the new email-centric world where we conduct business.

Attorneys who attend this webinar will discover
* how to spend less time doing emails
* typical, wrong “conventional wisdom” on handling Inbox Anxiety
* how mobile email can reduce the time you spend emailing
* the impact email responsiveness has on your clients
* the trick that will get your staff working longer hours and feeling happier about it for free

Amol Sarva is the founder of Peek and Nader Soudah is its director of national sales. They both spend their time talking and emailing with customers, and designing Peek to help them get more done at lower cost. Peek is an award-winning product that helps you connect everyone, everywhere; it recently launched service across Europe and in India

Peek’s fast, focused, and cost-efficient mobile has helped many lawyers and professionals stay better connected to their customers through always-on, always-with-you email. Along the way, Peek has collected many best practices for maximizing productivity in the new email-centric world where we conduct business.

Monday, August 9, 2010 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
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