Gary Coleman’s dead?  “What’choo talkin’ ’bout, Willis?!”Gary Coleman played “Arnold,” the little brother on TV’s “Diff’rent Strokes,” for eight years beginning in 1978. Coleman appeared in dozens of television films and series over the years. Coleman is perhaps the stereotype of a childhood star with a troubled life. Coleman had a variety of legal and […]

Lawyers tend to have a hard time asking their clients what they can do to improve, assuming that if they don’t hear any complaints, everything must be fine.  But unfortunately, this is not always the case.  When it comes to legal services, as in many other service-oriented industries, clients who are unhappy rarely take their […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Robert Armstrong and Sanford M. Fisch Co-Author the E-Myth AttorneySAN DIEGO, June 18, 2010–Attorneys nationwide have long looked to Robert Armstrong and Sanford M. Fisch as pioneers in law firm practice management. Now, with the publication of The E-Myth Attorney: Why Most Legal Practices Don’t Work and What to Do About It […]

Welcome to your final installment on this series of Computer Tips for your Estate Planning Law Practice! Hard Drives (HD) A hard drive is a metal case within which one or more discs (platters) spin, while a mechanical head moves over them to retrieve information from the microscopic pits embedded on their surface. Think of […]

We spend a lot of time with Members looking at the results of the marketing that has filled up a law firm calendar. What we find is no surprise—during the hustle and bustle of getting a marketing effort pulled together and having a successful offer that attracts a potential client—often the energy and focus is […]

Attorneys routinely get themselves in trouble by dabbling in practice areas about which they know little.  Estate Planning and Elder Law are complicated areas with much to stay on top of.  2010 is a great example of that.  The rules have changed completely and there is much uncertainty.  There is no estate tax.  But, the […]

You’ve made it to the 4th segment of the Computer Tips blog topic! You can review the previous 3 segments, Introduction, Operating Systems, or the entry on the CPU. RAM Memory is akin to a plane upon which lay your information and the tools to analyze it. The larger the surface, the more tools and […]

That’s right, I am guilty. Guilty of being obsessive. I can not deny it. The particular obsession I want to focus on is productivity. The flip side is not wasting time. Do not confuse activity with productivity.  I see people, especially lawyers, confuse the two all the time. Activity is being busy. Lawyers are busy all the time […]

In an ideal world, no one would.  However, in the real world, we form an impression of a person in the first 30 seconds to 2 minutes after we meet him or her. Okay, you may be thinking.  I’m willing to sacrifice a little upfront PR for comfort since I’ll have the chance to impress […]

Glad you’re still hanging in there for these basic computer tips.  If you missed the first two topics, you can review the Introduction to the topic and Operating Systems section. CPU The Central Processing Unit is the brain: it analyzes information to obtain results.Here the choices are innumerable, starting with the most common manufacturers: Intel […]