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Top Ten Tuesday: The Legal Industry Is About To Be Turned Upside Down

Posted on February 24, 2009
If the cheap availability of technology wasn?t enough, lawyers now face an even more daunting challenge. With the economy taking a drastic downturn, the ?status quo? is about to be challenged in ways which would have never occurred under any...

Overflow Legal (OFL): Will the Pendulum of Power Swing Toward Talented Independent Contract Attorneys?

Posted on February 23, 2009
Lisa Solomon from the Questionoflaw.net and Legalresearchandwritingpro.com submitted some interesting posts to OFL concerning lawyers acting as independent contractors. As you all know, we are big fans of contract lawyers, virtual law clerks, and virtual paralegals...

ISO Monday: Drowning in Email, RSS Feeds, and Twitter Feeds....

Posted on February 23, 2009
Well, it's Information Super-Overload Monday. That means that GAL will be sharing tips on how to deal with the flood of information clogging up your email inbox, RSS feeds, and Twitter feeds. As many commentators have noted, too much information...

The Phenomena of LegalZoom.com: Love Them or Hate Them, Legal Self-Help Is Here to Stay

Posted on February 20, 2009
Lawyers love to hate services like LegalZoom.com. While there have been some court cases alleging consumer fraud against LegalZoom's group host, this immensely popular legal forum self-help service has been a huge hit with consumers. There is little doubt that...

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Should You Bill Hours, Value or Risk? OFL Knows the Answer.

Posted on February 18, 2009
The Overflow Legal website has a solid list of blogs and articles from around the internet addressing the issue of alternative billing arrangements by law firms. If you want to see the top post as voted by you, the reader,...

Over the Hump (OTH) Wednesday: Vote Now on the Best Posts

Posted on February 18, 2009
How to Reclaim Your Professional and Personal Life as a Lawyer: Are you really doing what you want with your professional life or are you just "filling a chair"? If you don't love what you're doing, maybe you should take...

Large Law Firms Continue to Implode: Historic 800 Law Firm Jobs Lost in a Single Day

Posted on February 16, 2009
On Friday the 13th, Law.com reported 800 associates and support staff in some of the largest firms in the nation lost their jobs. For these people, Friday the 13th will always mean bad things. The reason given for these layoffs...

Clients Love Flat Fee Billing Based on Defined Deliverables

Posted on February 11, 2009
I?m in Los Angeles, California this week for a federal court status conference and facilitated mediation in an unfair competition, keyword advertising trademark infringement case. At dinner last night with the clients, the issue of lawyers quickly came to the...

Expanding Your Practice with "Of Counsel" Relationships

Posted on February 09, 2009
In this age of change, with large law firms laying off partners and associates, I have to wonder about the future of the of counsel relationship. As a result of technology and the internet, large corporate law firms which dominate...

The Nonsense of The Billable Hour

Posted on February 07, 2009
In an article he wrote for Forbes Magazine, Trial Attorney Evan R. Chesler, discusses a better way to bill clients by simply playing fair. Kill the Billable Hour: Lawyers should bill the way Joe the Contractor does I'm a trial...

Twitter And Blogs Go Hand-In-Hand

Posted on February 06, 2009
Kevin O?Keefe at LexBlog identifies 7 Reasons Why Lawyers Using Twitter Need A Blog: Twitter, despite a meteoric rise in popularity (mirroring blog growth of 4 or 5 years ago) is not used by enough people. As a lawyer you...

Attorneys And Stockbrokers Among The 20 Most Stressful Jobs

Posted on February 05, 2009
Stephanie West Allen of Idealawg posted an article indicating that the category of attorney ranks number 82 in a list of top 200 jobs. Rounding out the top 100, attorneys and stockbrokers may earn considerably more than bookbinders or telephone...

Comparing E-fax and Electronic Fax Services

Posted on February 04, 2009
Every once in a while I get a question from one of our readers about incorporating an internet fax service into their business model. These systems generally go by the description ?electronic fax?, ?internet fax?, ?e-fax? and ?online fax? services....

Kudos To Lindsay Griffith For Posting Link To Twitter

Posted on February 04, 2009
Hey there! Lindsay Griffith is using Twitter. Thanks for this link. Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch with people through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? Join...

The Influence Of Blogs

Posted on February 03, 2009
Kara Smith of Karasma posted on the influence of blogs: The State of the Blogosphere report by Technorati for 2008 reports that blogs are an influential part of daily life. According to Technorati's report "brands make up a major part...

Getting Your Blog Recognized

Posted on February 02, 2009
Jason Nazar, Co-Founder and CEO of DocStoc.com posted a great article discussing the various ways that you can get your blog out there and recognized for free: There are 7 Ways to Get (unpaid) Traffic on the Web, in no...

Advice From A National Coach On Self-Employment

Posted on February 01, 2009
Susan Cartier Liebel at Build a Solo Practice blog and Solo Practice University answers a letter from a prosecutor with the Department of Justice, who asks: Should I Leave My Six-Figure Job For Solo Practice? >Question: I am a prosecutor...

What If Coffee Shops Billed Like Law Firms?

Posted on January 31, 2009
Jay Shepherd at The Client Revolution posted a funny article which puts the notion of value-based billing into perspective: So it's another gray New England winter afternoon, which means it's time for my caffeine fix. I walk down the street...

Register For Audio Conference On Value Of Virtual Assistants

Posted on January 30, 2009
The Center for Competitive Management has scheduled a 75-minute audio conference for Tuesday, May 12, 2009, at 2:00 p.m. E.S.T. concerning the pros and cons of hiring and managing Virtual Assistants. Traverse Legal Attorneys Enrico Schaefer and Brian Hall will...

In Response to David Giacalone?s Concerns about the Ethics of Value Billing

Posted on January 26, 2009
I?m doing some research on value billing for lawyers; I came across the one blog post which beats out the GAL web site on the issue on this issue of ?value billing? on Google Search. David Giacalone over at the...

Blawg Review #195

Posted on January 26, 2009
Here is this weeks Blawg Review hosted by Yolanda Young at the On Being A Black Lawyer (OBABL) Blog.

Traverse City, to Ann Arbor, back to Traverse City, to Hollywood, back to Traverse City, back to LA, to San Francisco, back to Traverse City

Posted on January 26, 2009
Who says you can?t create a viable law firm by blogging your expertise? GAL has a busy couple weeks ahead. I?d like to say I owe it all to the internet, but the internet only provides opportunities. Blogging siezes it....

Submit Your Best Posts: Get Recognition and Link Juice!

Posted on January 23, 2009
Next Wednesday, we will be publishing our first version of Over the Hump (OTH) Wednesday, wherein we feature the most popular blog post submitted to Overflow Legal. If you think you have what it takes, submit your best post into...

A Cup of Coffee at One of the Country?s Largest Mental Asylums: A GAL Breakdown?

Posted on January 23, 2009
I am fortunate to work at one of the largest renaissance and redevelopment zones in the country, Grand Traverse Commons. Every morning, I enter the secret back door to my office, turn on my laptop and start outlook (which I...

Regurgitation Thursday: Non-Solo Karma

Posted on January 22, 2009
Topics covered in this episode of GAL Radio: Buildings and Grounds of the Grand Traverse Commons My new office CIRCA January 14, 2005: Non-Solo Karma Play GAL Radio: Non-Solo Karma Here are some great photos of the Grand Traverse Commons:...

An Excellent Article On Blogging Lifecycles By Eric Goldman

Posted on January 22, 2009
For those of you who don?t him, Eric Goldman is a prolific blogger who runs two niche blogs, the Tech and Marketing Blog and the Goldman?s Observation Blog. Eric Goldman is an Associate Professor of Law at Santa Clara University...

The Adam Smith Blog Contemplates the Potential Consequences of Economic Downturn on the Legal Profession

Posted on January 21, 2009
Bruce MacEwen over at the Adam Smith blog has an interesting post called, ?Lessons From The Depression.? Bruce notes that never in his career has there been a time of greater uncertainty. ?The future is hard to visualize as it...

What Impact Will Barack Obama?s Message of Change Have on Society?s Institutional Bias To The Status Quo and Tradition

Posted on January 20, 2009
I remember one point during the campaign when John McCain repeatedly stated that America needed action not talk. His overall point was that action was more powerful than ideas. That made me think. Most of the time, an idea rendered...

GAL Is Pleased To Announce Overflowlegal.com: The Best - Coolest - Narrowest Niche Legal Content Categories

Posted on January 20, 2009
How is Overflow Legal different? First of all, we don?t pull in every blog post from a limited number of blogs and try and stuff those posts within a predetermined (and often inappropriate) category. Overflow Legal is an open platform. Any content, whether RSS enabled or not, can be added to the system...

The Failure of Billable Hour

Posted on January 15, 2009
Jordan Furlong, the author of law21.ca, dispatches from a legal profession on the brink and has a great article about why ?billing by the hour? fails and can be found at http://www.law21.ca/2008/12/17/the-failure-of-billable-hour-compensation/. Not only does the billable hour technique wrecks...

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