originally published in The Lawyers Weekly “It would be interesting to return to post-Enron days and read quotes saying how we need to clean things up,” mused Blake Redding, cofounder of legal consultancy VistaLaw International. “And here we are again, even worse. Asking whether certain businesses effectively
Read more →Originally published in The Lawyers Weekly “Hi, I’m a Mac.” “And I’m a PC.” You’ve probably heard personifications of these two computer operating systems bantering on TV, where the young, hip Mac always comes out ahead of the buttoned-down PC. In law firms, like in most businesses,
Read more →originally published in Auto Plant Magazine As the business world kneels at the altar of customer relationship management (CRM) and the software used to make it better, supplier relationship management (SRM) concepts and solutions get relatively short shrift, even in the manufacturing industry. That is rapidly changing,
Read more →originally published in The Lawyers Weekly “Neither our standard education, nor traditional time-management models, nor the plethora of organizing tools available, such as… Microsoft Outlook… has given us a viable means of meeting the new demands placed on us.” David Allen was talking about the modern-day knowledge
Read more →While global markets tank, big Canadian law firms are proving resilient so far Originally published in The Lawyers Weekly The world’s economy is faltering and some lawyers wonder if their businesses might follow suit. While major Canadian firms are keeping a stiff upper lip, cracks are beginning
Read more →originally published in Lawyers Weekly “Potential hotbeds of anarchy.” That’s how Stewart Mader initially described certain public wikis. As an author, consultant and founder of Grow Your Wiki, Mader helps businesses implement this still-fresh Web 2.0 technology, but he admits that negative publicity surrounding select public wikis
Read more →originally published in The Lawyers Weekly Ronald Morton, founding member of the Clinton, MS Morton Law Firm, PLLC, relates his post-meeting routine: “I pick up my digital dictating machine as soon as a client leaves. I dictate what we talked about and what the plan is. As
Read more →originally published in Lawyers Weekly David Woolford, a partner with Cassels Brock & BlackWell LLP, may conduct business from home (an hour commute from the office), the cottage (even farther) and locales like Germany or Hawaii. Kevin Davidson, a general civil practice attorney “based” in Appleton, Wisconsin,
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