The LawBiz® Podcast
Summary: Ed Poll is the principal of LawBiz Management and a nationally recognized coach, law firm management consultant and author. In this podcast, listeners will learn how to run a professional practice. Law practices are a service business and our podcaster is a leading authority on how lawyers can be more effective with their clients, more efficient in delivering their legal services and more profitable for themselves.
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Podcasts:
Ed interviews both Sharon D. Nelson and John W. Simek, principals of the nationally known computer forensics and legal technology consulting firm, Sensei Enterprises, Inc. Sharon and John are co-authors of The 2010 Solo and Small Firm Legal Technology Guide and The Electronic Evidence Handbook. Sharon is also co-author of the book, How Good Lawyers Survive Bad Times. They discuss the good, the bad and the ugly of today's social media and how lawyers can most effectively use this new channel of distribution for their ideas and communicating their expertise to potential clients. 24 minutes, 17 seconds 5.7MB Click here to listen.
In the interview they discuss Corel's new product, WordPerfect X5. This newest release of WordPerfect has several unique features including expanded powers from Adobe and a new alliance with Nuance's Paperport. 24 minutes, 16 seconds 5.7MB Click here to listen.
Jack Newton is President and co-founder of Themis Solutions and the creator of Clio software. Clio is a fully integrated practice management solution for more efficient operation of the small law firm. Listen as Ed Poll and Jack Newton discuss the benefits of operating "in the cloud." 31 minutes, 12 seconds 7.1MB Click here to listen.
Todd Gerstein is President of Smart WebParts. He talks about "time leaks" experienced by lawyers. His new product is called "Smart Time." It's designed to assist lawyers in capturing time they expended but failed to record. Studies have shown that time is "leaked," lost or never recorded, to the tune of at least 100 hours per year. At $200 per hour, this is $20,000 in revenue per year that was never billed -- and thus lost; simply because of careless lawyer behavior. Listen to more ..... 13 minutes, 32 seconds 2MB Click here to listen
In this interview, Ed discusses Avvo with its chief marketing officer, Conraad Saam. Conrad has worked his entire career in on-line marketing efforts for children's products and services. He says that "kids try anything, while lawyers resist change. You have to put the brakes on kids and press on the gas for lawyers." Today, Avvo puts consumers together with lawyers. Learn about Avvo by listening to this "must hear" discussion. 30 minutes, 41 seconds 7.2MB Click here to listen.
Patrick J. Lamb is a founder of Valorem Group, a pioneering law firm in business litigation, based in Chicago, Illinois. He has long been a proponent of alternative fees. Listen as Ed and Patrick discuss the definition, concept and implementation of alternative fees. 34 minutes, 33 seconds 7.9MB Click here to listen.
Our topic today is on smartly moving your law office. Most of us don't appreciate the finer points of moving furniture, boxes of files, computers and all the other paraphernalia that makes up a typical law office... while not losing billable hours! Dr. Bill Saleebey provides some clues to achieving a successful move in this interview with Ed. Couple his words of wisdom with Chapter 36 of Ed's best selling book, The Attorney & Law Firm Guide to The Business of Law (2nd ed.), and you will be assured of success! 22 minutes, 34 seconds 5.2MB Click here to listen.
Dale H. Tincher, CEO of ConsultWebs.com, a web design company for law firms, talks with Ed about SEO, search engine optimization. They talk about how SEO can help produce increased revenues for law firms and some of the interplay between social media and SEO. 24 minutes, 50 seconds 5.8MB Click here to listen
What is a library audit, and how can law firms save huge sums of money by conducting such an audit? Cookie Lewis, M.S.L.S. is president of Askinfomania, a legal and business research firm, who conducts such audits. As a legal information strategist, she works with law firms to maximize their return on investment in their library resources and other law library management issues. In her interview with Ed, she discusses such audits, why law firms should consider having one, and how law firms can save many dollars of overhead with the right audit results. 22 minutes, 28 seconds 5.3MB Click here to listen.
Maurice Vincent is the CEO of In-House Litigation Support Services which provides a full suite of Attorney services and litigation support that allows law firms and internal counsel to outsource these areas cost effectively. This type of service allows law firms to focus on their core competencies. Maurice, in our interview, first defines the term, "litigation support," and then describes what litigation support providers should be doing for law firms. Ed draws from Maurice how law firms can save money and better serve their clients while using this "out-sourced" service. 26 minutes, 33 seconds 6.2MB Click here to listen.
