Let’s face it, attorneys are notorious for being aloof and stodgy. Walls lined with mahogany bookshelves and lawyers wearing starched shirts and designer suits while sitting at oak desks only fuel that image.  But even the most traditional law firms are recognizing the value of the newest media trends—thanks to client expectations and increased competition [...]

At my local gym (and no doubt yours), January always brings an influx of well-meaning folks looking to start the year off right. They make it harder to get through workouts at my normal pace, but they also serve as a role model for lawyers. Why? Because now’s the perfect time to take a look [...]

To some attorneys, nothing could be scarier than talk of “the Cloud” in their law practice.  These attorneys use their well-honed issue spotting skills to list every possible doomsday scenario applicable to remote computing and data storage (the Cloud), and they convince themselves that it is better to do things the old-fashioned way.   But the [...]

I’m not usually a late adopter, but in the case of tablet computing, I was two years behind the curve.  My first glimpse of a tablet led me to believe it was just a big smart phone–without the phone–and bigger wasn’t necessarily better.  Over time, my view of tablets evolved.  I saw so many of [...]

When I first started to practice law the internet was still ruled by home users dialing up AOL to hear “You’ve Got Mail.”  In that environment, when I needed the expertise of another lawyer, I had to walk down the hall and talk to a colleague, or turn to my phone list (I kept mine [...]