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No, this isn’t the beginning of a bad lawyer joke. It was the beginning of a beautiful relationship with Texas’s many bar associations.
Thanks to our Facebook relationship, I had the opportunity to share the stage at the Texas Bar Leaders Conference with the Texas State Bar’s social media whiz, John Sirman.
He’s a lawyer/webbie,

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After my fourth straight day of non-stop AALL conference running around, I’m running on fumes and having a blast talking with my colleagues. I’ve talked about blogging… I’ve talked about law firm management… I’ve talked about my new projects… and I’ve shared my opinion while listening to the opinions of others. As with most of the…

Can’t make it to Philly, or decided that the 102 degree heat is too much to attend the AALL conference? You can still get a taste of the conference through the Association’s webcasts. I suggest that everyone that is interested with the vendor relations tune in on Monday for the CRIV & Vendor Colloquium discussion

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As I sit here in a hotel room editing this post, and going over my notes for the four presentations I am giving at AALL this year, I realized that I’m taking to heart some of the perspectives we gather on this week’s Elephant Post. There were many good suggestions on…

The Association has no purpose. The Association is being sneaky. What has the Association done for me? Why should I be a member in the Association? There’s a litany of woe (is me) posts/emails burning up the internet regarding AALL.
With the AALL Annual Meeting close at hand (and the Antitrust Policy floating around), I

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After attending a 4-hour grammar class–yes, I know, I am a geek–I was heartened to witness that there are those still out there who are positively impassioned about punctuation.
The class erupted in a thirty-minute discussion on–get this–how many spaces should follow a period.
Good grief.
You would have thought we were talking about which

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Jordan Furlong added an excellent comment on a recent post and followed up with a personal note encouraging me to expand and define the idea of a cost rate versus a billing rate for a lawyer, or any other time keeper. So here we go.
There is an old Rule of Three that generally applies

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It’s been over six months since I first warned of the coming Corporate Technology Apocalypse on this blog. In the last few weeks, I think corporate IT has gotten a couple of new nails in its coffin.
The first came in the form of a splashy infographic from Unisys called The Great IT Freezeout,

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Recently Donna Seyle posted an article on the lack of a Bright Line for what is the unauthorized practice of law (UPL). I offer some additional thoughts on the subject here.
First off – the LegalZoom battle is a losing one for regulators. As noted in the article, this provider and others have been around

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