Westlaw will be launching its new search engine, called WestlawNext, at Legal Tech New York next Monday. Yesterday, the folks responsible for WestlawNext gave a pre-launch presentation about the new platform to a group of bloggers and legal journalists who write for various audiences. Carolyn Elefant and I were there representing the small firm and [...]

If you’re like most lawyers, the thought of networking makes your skin crawl. That’s because you haven’t learned how networking really works: it’s nothing more than relationship building. Join Jennifer Loud Ungar and learn how to build a strong professional network to draw from for career success. In this program, you’ll learn: How the web [...]

Last week, the National Law Journal reported that a California plaintiff’s lawyer has filed a class action suit against Chadbourne & Parke, alleging that the firm engages in a pattern and practice of billing its clients based on hourly rates charged by online legal research providers, even though the firm actually pays a flat rate [...]

If you’re like most lawyers, your “to do” list is overflowing, and you probably feel that you’re facing an uphill battle just to get the “must do” items completed—never mind the fresh ideas you’d like to implement for better client service, business development, or just taking a few moments to enjoy lunch. Join Julie A. [...]

Back when the economy was growing, the issue of work/life balance was a hot topic in the blawgosphere as well as in the mainstream legal media. Although discussion of the issue has more recently taken a back seat to dollars-and-cents issues, by no means has it disappeared. In fact, organizations like the Total Practice Management [...]

Back by Popular Demand! Want to get started as a contract lawyer, but don’t know where to start? In this teleseminar, nationally-recognized contract lawyering expert Lisa Solomon answers these important questions: What is the most powerful way to market your services as a contract lawyer? How much should you charge, and how can you make [...]

Joan Stewart (a/k/a The Publicity Hound) is my personal PR guru. I subscribe to her free weekly ezine, and have gotten tons of great advice from it. As a result of applying the techniques that Joan teaches about, I have had a lot of publicity success for my various businesses (including getting my pet products [...]

On Monday, the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility released Formal Op. 08-451, entitled Lawyer’s Obligations When Outsourcing Legal and Nonlegal Support Services. Although press coverage of the opinion has focused on its impact on the overseas legal outsourcing industry and the reaction here in the United States from contract lawyers [...]

If you want to run a successful legal research and writing practice, you need to have an entrepreneurial spirit. I have found that reading blogs about entrepreneurship helps to foster that spirit in me. Two entrepreneur-focused blogs I really like are written by Dmitry Davydov. My favorite posts on NicheGeek.com contain practical information about the [...]