What keeps me ahead of the curve? I start the day early. I wake up by 5 AM, often before, including weekends. This gives me uninterrupted time to knock out major action items for the day and to plan the rest. I also do my best thinking at this time of the day. On the

Here’s my ‘KISS’ tip (“100 words or less”) for May’s monthly theme.

Up to the challenge? In 100 words or less, submit your quick, uncomplicated, untechnological habits or practices that make all the difference in your law firm.

The biggest selling point for me, though, and why I keep raving about Draft, is its collaboration feature, or what Draft calls Version Control. No login required.

Debating about using Dropbox, or other cloud-based applications x in your practice? Here are some do’s and don’ts when performing due diligence for any cloud-based application to use in your practice.

Certainly, there are aspects of your marketing program that aren’t working. Here are five things to consider to spring clean you legal marketing.

As an attorney, you know that words matter; every word your client says (or doesn’t say)and the way your phrase your briefs can directly influence the outcome of your case. But even words said in passing can leave an impression! Phone calls with clients, emails, in-person meetings – your diction during any interaction with a client

The old lawyer then told me that every six months he gives himself a business present by firing his worst client. It doesn’t matter who it is, how valuable the case, or even what the reasoning is. So I tried it.

Email builds up and is hard, if not impossible, to reduce. Managing the pain is sometimes the best you can do. Here are three apps to help keep your inbox trim.

Twitter was the obvious, most logical choice for a Google Reader replacement. Two deal breakers scrapped it as an option, so I had to find another.

If I remember to keep the clutter down, my practice runs more smoothly. Yours will to, so here are some tips to help you keep up with the clutter.

Seven important law firm website content areas that need some spring cleaning.

A career decision led to an epic office-cleaning that brought me face-to-face with a very uncomfortable truth: I was a hoarder. How did I decide what truly needed to be handed over to my successor?

I’ve been a legal writer for over 25 years, and have taught legal writing for about 10. One of the things I like to do is ask judges what they want to see in legal writing–the consumer’s perspective. They always tell me they would like to see less of it: “Make it shorter!” Here is

Loosely defined, spring cleaning is the theme for April. Here at Small Firm Innovation, “spring cleaning” is defined as a complete website redesign.