Laptop Legal » LPM http://www.laptoplegal.com Law pratice management for the solo and small firm mobile legal professional Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:18:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Tip to jobseekers – put your name in the name of your CV file http://www.laptoplegal.com/2010/tip-to-jobseekers-put-your-name-in-the-name-of-your-cv-file.htm http://www.laptoplegal.com/2010/tip-to-jobseekers-put-your-name-in-the-name-of-your-cv-file.htm#comments Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:18:37 +0000 Jordan http://www.laptoplegal.com/?p=118 Seems obvious, but I’m looking through CVs at the moment for a client and a ton of people just name their PDF or DOC file of their CV something like CV.pdf. How silly and wasteful of my time as the one doing the hiring, as I have to rename it with your name when I file it. Give it a meaningful name and make the lives of the people doing the hiring much easier!

Make it easier and give obvious names to your CV files when you submit them.

]]> http://www.laptoplegal.com/2010/tip-to-jobseekers-put-your-name-in-the-name-of-your-cv-file.htm/feed 0 Scheduling with Tungle http://www.laptoplegal.com/2009/scheduling-with-tungle.htm http://www.laptoplegal.com/2009/scheduling-with-tungle.htm#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:14:06 +0000 Jordan http://www.laptoplegal.com/?p=110 Off the back of a post on Tungle over at Lawyerist by Allison Shields I’ve been giving the service a try. One week in, and I’m liking it quite a bit. It’s a service to help you schedule meetings across several people and advertise your availability to others.

To me it’s a bit like a supercharged Doodle, which I’ve been using for awhile to help schedule meetings. The added advantage with Tungle is that if your schedule changes so too does your availability for meetings you’re trying to book, which is super handy when trying to book something with those late-to-reply people who end up having you hold multiple slots open for a meeting or make you rebook because you’ve already scheduled something else. Plus Tungle looks better.

The connector program for the Mac is in beta, and has stuck on me a few times but more or less runs smoothly. Currently it refers you to the Tungle website when scheduling, I’d like to see a way to schedule meetings directly on my machine. Syncing works pretty well with iCal back and forth.

Right now, there doesn’t appear to be a pricing model attached, so not sure what direction it will head, but this is a great idea, and well implemented.

You can find me at: http://tungle.me/jordanhatcher

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LPM blogs

Build a Solo practice. Susan Cartier Liebel’s blog and one of the first I started following when I developed my consultancy.

There are quite a few others that I dip in on regularly, such as Chuck Newton and Home Office Warrior. These days I mostly just see what is out there via the twitter people I follow, though I very sorely tempted to join Solo Practice University to give it a go.

Tech for the solo/small firm

Keep up to date with Future Lawyer and for the Mac users, subscribe to MILO and read iPhone JD if you have an iPhone.

SEO

SEO Moz comes in very handy and has lots of tools to help with SEO. My Pro subscription has been useful, but there are plenty of things to get you started for free.

SEO Book. I bought and read Aaron Wall’s SEO Book and it’s been a great help to understand the issues and where to improve (even if I don’t get to do all of what he and SEO Moz recommend).

UK

In the UK we have the SOLO IP group, which I’d hoped would offer more practice management tips and tricks, and still has the potential to be a really useful resource specifically for IP practitioners.

]]> http://www.laptoplegal.com/2009/practice-management-sites-every-solo-should-follow.htm/feed 2 GTD set up on the mac? http://www.laptoplegal.com/2009/gtd-set-up-on-the-mac.htm http://www.laptoplegal.com/2009/gtd-set-up-on-the-mac.htm#comments Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:12:47 +0000 Jordan http://www.laptoplegal.com/?p=59 Any suggestions – I’m working on tweaking my system and there are so many choices out there that it’s a bit overwhelming. I’m going to test out OmniFocus for the next week as so far it looks like a leader.

Any other recommendations? My Moleskine and Hipster PDA system needs expanding.

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Precise costs are admittedly difficult to quantify, but with EDD taking an increasing bite out of the bottom line, corporate America is looking for alternatives, and turning increasingly to India. The review part of the process — the process we know best as contract attorneys — is a key area where outsourcing is the attractive, cost-saving option.

Not great news of course for contract attorneys that make their living from document review projects in the US, but an interesting options for corporate law departments of a certain size.

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This raises interesting issues concerning putting a price on an IP practice — an option that a sole practitioner may want to consider when either implementing an exit strategy or going in with another firm. Obviously it’s not possible to know the details that drove the valuation in this instance, but it would be good to hear from readers who have had to put a value on their practices recently.

Are there any special considerations to practice valuation for an IP practice that others don’t have?

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