Presentation – Law Practice Management, Cloud, Organization, Social Media, Ethics

Tomorrow I am presenting at the General Practitioner’s Update for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute.   I am addressing issues related to law practice management. Specifically, organization, the cloud, social media (marketing and litigation) and overarching issues of ethics.  I will explore security concerns, metadata (including efix) and other related issues.   Here are my slides.  

How Not to Market your Marketing Company

At Lowenthal & Abrams our receptionist takes all phone calls. This means that she can protect everyone from sales calls. And there are a lot of sales calls. However, since I handle aspects of the firm’s marketing, I am often willing to take calls from marketing companies because I feel I can always learn something, […]

Completing a 1099 Misc for Independent Contractors

How to complete a 1099 Misc Online I have been in business for myself for just a few months, since October 2012 to be precise. My focus has been on my firm, Lowenthal & Abrams, and not on consulting, so I haven’t worried about drumming up business, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have any. […]

Presentation – Social Media for Attorneys – Estate and Elder Symposium for PBI

I decided it was time to rework my social media presentation, here is the result. The start addresses concerns for the elderly. The rest of the presentation focuses on how attorneys should use social media for marketing.  This is the powerpoint in preparation for my talk tomorrow and next week at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. […]

Check BEFORE you Tweet

Check to see who you are logged in as before you send that Tweet I cannot even begin to recall all the public relations disasters that have occurred over the past year because someone forget he was logged in as his employer instead of himself. I will admit myself to having made this particular error. […]

Resolve to Backup your Data

It is absolutely crucial that attorneys, law firms, business people, everyone really, have proper backup protection for their data. That protection should include the following: 1. External hard drive to back up both important files and the hard drive image 2. Cloud based backup for important files, and possibly the hard drive image. I use […]

Facebook Copyright Hoax

Just because I am tired of seeing it, let me address the Facebook copyright hoax. This gem shows up every now and again. People paste this missive about how they still own their copyright. Listen, you don’t need to tell anyone this. You still own your copyright. Copyright works like this. You put something down, […]

Attorneys Taking Credit Cards – How Square

We attorneys tend to be late adopters to technology. This includes the technology involved with taking credit cards.  A lot of attorneys are still just beginning to set up the process right now. In fact, the Pennsylvania Bar Association (of which I am a member) recently joined with LawPay to help attorneys with the ability […]