2009 Taking Care of Business: Using Technology to Manage a Successful Practice
$50.00

Where Worlds Collide: Ethics, Legal Technology and Information Security

Technology can make the lawyer’s life easier. Unfortunately, it can also present unique opportunities to violate Rules of Professional Conduct which were written before the technology was even dreamed of. Learn how to protect your clients and your reputation from the growing ethical and malpractice threats presented by technology in the law office.

Jeremy W. McIntire
Alabama State Bar
Montgomery

Show Me the Money!: Bills Out, Money In, and Accounting for the Bottom Line

The practice of law is a lot more enjoyable when the lawyer isn’t stressing over keeping the lights on. This session will cover best billing practices, affordable technology options for the solo practitioner and small firm, financial reports to keep tabs on the health of your firm and tips on fees.

S. Dagnal Rowe
Wilmer & Lee PA
Huntsville

How to Swallow an Elephant: Managing Email Overload

Is email a blessing, allowing easy, instant and inexpensive communications with clients, or has it become a curse as you and your staff struggle to cope with its overwhelming volume? This session will cover tools and strategies to put the email genie back in the bottle, helping you get and keep control of the communications flow.

Laura A. Calloway
Alabama State Bar
Montgomery
John M. Peek
Peek & Weaver PC
Andalusia

Paperless Practice: Managing Document Overload

With the advent of efiling, more and more lawyers are seeing the need to better manage their electronic documents. Come learn the A to Z of paperless practice: from using merges and styles to tips and tools for creating PDFs, plus everything you need to know about scanners and OCR to get your paperless office up and running and better find and use previous work product.

Mark Murphy
Murphy Murphy & McCalman PC
Andalusia
Romaine S. Scott III
Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker LLC
Birmingham

Social Media Marketing: What is this Stuff and Why Should I Care?

As the population grows more mobile, and the number of lawyers just grows, client development efforts become both more essential and more difficult. How do you reach the clients you want most with information about why your practice is different from the rest of the herd without running afoul of the Rules of Professional Conduct? We’ll discuss the best client development techniques, from providing complete client satisfaction through the latest trends in websites, blogs and social media use (can you say Twitter?) by lawyers.

James A. Johnson
James A. Johnson PC
Mobile
John G. Watts
Watts Law Group PC
Birmingham

60 Practice Management Tips in 60 Minutes

When you come to a CLE session, you want to leave with ideas you can take back to the office and put to work right away. This session won’t disappoint. In one short hour we’ll give you at least 60 good new ideas to improve your practice, boost your bottom line, and make practicing law at least a little more fun again.

Laura Calloway
Jim Johnson
John Peek