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  • Build Your Own Law Firm #6: Setting Fees

    • June 11, 2018
    • Posted by: jaredcorreia@gmail.com
    • Category: Financial Management, Starting a Law Firm, Technology
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    One of the most challenging aspects of starting a law firm is figuring out what to charge.  You’ve got to walk the tightrope of making a living, while also delivering valuable services that justify your rates — even as consumers have more options for legal services, and are more price-sensitive than ever before. The traditional

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  • Version of Events: Cloud Software Means You Never Have to Update

    • May 22, 2017
    • Posted by: jaredcorreia@gmail.com
    • Category: Financial Management, Malpractice, Technology
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    This is version 2.0 of version 2.0.  The planned obsolescence of planned obsolescence. This is the update to end all updates. No, I’m not holding up a sign, and talking about the end times.  I am, however, addressing software versions.  Even now, I regularly run across law firms that operate different versions of local applications. 

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  • License Suspension: Pay for Software Access for Your Whole Team

    • February 10, 2017
    • Posted by: jaredcorreia@gmail.com
    • Category: Malpractice, Technology
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    It’s the oldest trick in the lawyer’s technology arsenal: You save money by buying one software license that everybody shares.  It’s kind of like how you bring on a law clerk, and everybody starts accessing his Westlaw password.  Not that that happens . . .  (See, I’ve got your back.) If it’s not one software

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  • Living in the Past: It’s Not Your Old System That’s Holding You Back

    • February 9, 2017
    • Posted by: jaredcorreia@gmail.com
    • Category: Technology
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    So many law firms are buried alive.  Covered by old data, entombed in systems they don’t want to use anymore.  Those systems are so gargantuan, bloated with data as they are, that lawyers treat them as ‘too big to fail’ — even if they’re failing on a daily basis.  In those instances, the argument against

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  • All-Star Game: Software Performance Reflects the User, Too

    • November 30, 2016
    • Posted by: jaredcorreia@gmail.com
    • Category: Financial Management, Malpractice, Technology
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    There’s no perfect software (excepting ‘Tecmo Super Bowl‘); and, lawyers, who professionally pick nits, are harder to please than other business software customers, even excluding considerations respecting professional ethics requirements. Of course, usability is a two-way street.  Software vendors have to build and update truly useful platforms for law firms; but, law firms must also

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  • Book Review – ‘Locked Down: Practical Information Security for Lawyers’

    • November 5, 2016
    • Posted by: jaredcorreia@gmail.com
    • Category: Malpractice, Technology
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    We’re happy to publish below a review of the new American Bar Association publication ‘Locked Down: Practical Information Security for Lawyers’.  The second edition is co-authored by Sharon Nelson and John Simek (both of Sensei Enterprises) and David Ries.  Information management and information security are major practice management concerns for every lawyer; and, this book

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