Laptop Legal
Have laptop. Will travel. Practice Management for the mobile office.
For all you legal bloggers out there that prefer coding to clicking through WYSIWYG editors, Daring Fireball‘s Markdown is a user friendly syntax that allows you to quickly draft blogposts without using full HTML and without having to highlight and point and click to get all the formatting you want. So instead of typing out: [...]
Just a quick note that I just installed WordPress Mobile Edition on laptop legal as a test. Seems pretty handy — I just had a look on my iPhone and it’s a nice clean interface with good navigation. I recommend checking it out for your site. I might try and do some customisation of the [...]
This post is just some notes on using social networks in practice. I use twitter, mostly because it’s fun and social, but also as a digital watercooler since I work in a solo/small firm setting. I follow and comment on mostly people I know from a professional setting, but always people I like (because they’re [...]
just a few tips as I see ‘em Please: Don’t place Google Ads on your lawyer website. You’re a lawyer not a professional blogger, and it’s highly unlikely you’re going to make any money anyway Don’t use blogger to host your blog. Don’t forget to use some sort of analytics software to keep track of [...]
twitterfeed can help you automagically turn your blog posts into tweets. The service has even recently expanded to allow you to feed any RSS into twitter and a whole host of other services, including facebook. It has lots of customisable settings, so that you can add leading or trailing text to your tweets, add hashtags, [...]
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 [...]
As a solo or small firm lawyer, you were a lot of hats and don’t have the luxury of just delegating lots of aspects of your practice to others. As a result of a conversation that I had today with a fellow small firm legal professional, I created this list of sites that I follow [...]
Think about it. Why are you blogging as part of your business? The answer: to help build your business! You have a business. If you’re reading this blog, you’re likely a solo or small firm lawyer. But this applies whether you are a lawyer in Chicago, a consultant in London, or a widget manufacturer in [...]
Just a quick note to reflect back on a webinar that I was a part of last month. I helped organise the event, but didn’t speak. While all of the speakers were presenting over the webinar, I consistently tweeted supplemental information. For example, links to speaker profiles or relevant papers, links or supplemental materials. This [...]
Managed to update one of my other blogs to WordPress 2.7 and the latest Thesis theme — went pretty smoothly especially with OpenHook for Thesis. I did a whole new install and imported my old site and had my plugins installed and site configured pretty quickly (couple of hours total). I very much recommend upgrading [...]
Have laptop. Will travel. This site is for the solo and small firm mobile legal professional on both sides of the Atlantic -- including barristers, advocates, lawyers, attorneys, and solicitors of all stripes.
Laptop legal covers legal practice management for people who are in charge of it all -- marketing and rainmaking, web presence, client development, and of course, advising on the law. I like to use a mac and write about their use for legal professionals, but this site isn't limited by OS and if I see a useful tool, I'll write about it. Solutions for solo and small firms up to 25 people.
I'm an American lawyer living in the United Kingdom working as a legal consultant and IP strategist for universities, the public sector, and private clients. I've been to 36 US states and 12 countries, and am already on track to add a whole lot more. I still haven't been to Canada, but make me an offer and I'll be there.
I've worked on my laptop in planes, trains, and automobiles, in coffee shops, pubs, bars, and restaurants, in libraries and in parks. You'll probably find me looking for a power outlet and an open wireless network.
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