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This post was written by Agnese Caruso: "This is definitely a bargain for firms and individuals using Twitter.

Chris Pirillo's new e-book 140 Twitter Tips, a 14-page PDF, offers useful and practical hints for all types of Twitter users. Tips include:...

The best part: the e-book costs only $1.40.

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Source: Slaw.ca, 9 March 2010. Reproduced with permission of Simon Fodden, founder of Slaw.

This post was written by Julie A. Fleming: "The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them And People Will Follow You by John C. Maxwell

The subtitle of Maxwell's book is "Follow Them, and People Will Follow You."  Each time I read that line, I hear a rejoinder in my head:  "Don't follow them, and people won't follow you."  Revised and updated in 2007 for the 10th anniversary of The 21 Irrefutable Laws, this book is rightly regarded as a foundational piece of the leadership literature.

As the title indicates, Maxwell presents 21 laws of leadership, all of which are free-standing and yet buttressed by one another.  You can learn quite a bit simply by reviewing the 21 laws with Maxwell's brief explanation of each..."

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Source: Life at the Bar, 17 February 2010. © Life at the Bar LLC Blog, reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by Andrew Terrett: "Legal Project Management - Control Costs, Meet Schedules, Manage Risks and Maintain Sanity" by Steven Levy. Daypack Books, Seattle WA, 2009. Price: US$29.95  ISBN: 1449928641

"Steven Levy's book marries project management with legal practice. This is a useful practical guide on how lawyers can get started."

The nature of legal services is changing. Indeed barely a week passes without another article in the legal press about Alternative Fee Arrangements and the death of the billable hour. Consequently the need for better Project Management has become a hot topic within law firm practice management circles. It is perceived by many as part of the solution in driving greater efficiencies in the face of shrinking legal budgets and ever louder calls for cost controls from General Counsel and CEO's. On the face of it, project management seems to be a great fit with its promise of on-time and on-budget delivery. But can it work in law firms and in-house legal departments? This book is the first to tackle that question thus the timing of this book could not be better..."

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Source: Slaw.ca, 9 February 2010. Reproduced with permission of Simon Fodden, founder of Slaw.

This post was written by StephanieWestAllen: "Because I liked their book Made to Stick so much, I am looking forward to the Heath brothers' new book Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard. Fast Company has published an excerpt of the book. Here's an excerpt of the excerpt:

...Our focus, in times of change, goes instinctively to the problems at hand. What's broken and how do we fix it? This troubleshooting mind-set serves us well -- most of the time. If you run a nuclear power plant and your diagnostics turn up a disturbing signal once per month, you should most certainly obsess about it and fix the problem. And if your child brings home a report card with five As and one F, it makes sense to freak out about the F.

But in times of change, this mind-set will backfire. If we need to make major changes, then (by definition) we don't have a near-spotless report card. A lot of things are probably wrong. The "report card" for our diet, or our marriage, or our business, is full of Cs and Ds and Fs. So if you ask yourself, What's broken and how do I fix it?, you'll simply spin your wheels. You'll spend a lot of time agonizing over issues that are TBU.

Click to read the rest of "Switch: Don't Solve Problems--Copy Success" (Fast Company)."

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Source: idealawg, 21 January 2010 Reproduced with permission of the author. 

This post was written by Evan Schaeffer: "My book about depositions is titled "Deposition Checklists and Strategies" (James Publishing). You can read thirteen practice tips from the book here (pdf), including--

• Impeachment nuggets;
• Uncooperative witnesses;
• Forgetful witnesses;
• Form objections; and
• Controlling witnesses."

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Source: The Trial Practice Tips Weblog, 14 January 2010

This post was written by StephanieWestAllen: "You just download a free application and there you have it . . . Kindle! You can start reading Kindle books right away if you are on a PC. The Mac version is coming soon and you can sign up to be notified when it is available."

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Source: idealawg, 6 January 2010

This post was written by Tara Calisham: "Thanks to TeleRead for the pointer to AddAll's new e-book search engine, available at http://ebooks.addall.com/. The pointer from the front page says that it's "available for testing," so perhaps it's in beta, but it worked fine for me. It searches over 30 ebook sites to find stuff for you to read.

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Source: ResearchBuzz, 7 January 2010

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This post was written by StephanieWestAllen: "Excerpt:

Have you ever arrived at work, only to realize that you do not remember any scenery or landmarks during your drive? At the end of your shower, have you ever realized that you are not sure whether you washed your hair? Or more important, think back to your last conversation with a loved one: Do you remember the details of what you talked about? For many, these examples highlight the fact that we live much of our days in automatic-pilot mode. We have our routines at home and at work, and we go through the motions, not truly paying attention to what we are doing. Our minds wander elsewhere, and we end up eating without tasting, looking without seeing, and talking without knowing what we are saying...

Click to read the rest of "Teaching Mindfulness to Children" (Gestalt Review) [pdf]. The exercises described in this article work just as well for adults. Why mindfulness?"

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Source: idealawg, 5 January 2010

This post was written by John Jantsch: "Marketing podcast with Tim Ferriss (Click to listen, right click and Save As to download - subscribe now via iTunes

For this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast, I grabbed a few minutes with Tim Ferriss, author of the newly released -  The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated. The expanded edition features over 100 pages of case studies and anecdotes taken from people that embraced Tim's Lifestyle Design theme and put it into action in their lives over the last few years.

Tim's book was a surprise run away best seller when first released and landed him in the spotlight for those who garnered hope from his positive message of work less and live more. However, his message also created a camp of doubters that likely felt the message was unrealistic. I find it ironic that Amazon has his book selling in tandem with Gary Vs  CrushIT message of work 80 hours a week until your eyes bleed..."

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Source: Duct Tape Marketing, 29 December 2009

Posted by Joe Hodnicki: "In The View From the First Chair: What Every Trial Lawyer Really Needs to Know (LawyerAvenue Press, Sept. 2009), Martin L. Grayson writes "the verdict or judgement, tells not only who won or lost a case, it is also a ruling and a judgment on how you presented your evidence and arguments and conducted yourself as counsel. To a large extent, the verdict will be based on you." Grayson's work is a crash course on the litigation process, one that offers specific tips and insights into the legal and psychological art of the lawsuit, particularly at the state trial court level. Young litigators and law students who want to become litigators will get a sense of what is really required for trial preparation including insights into the mindset of the trial lawyer. The author, Martin L. Grayson, has been a litigator for 25 years, is a former member of the board of editors for the ABA Litigation Section's Litigation and a former Judge Pro Tempore for Los Angeles County Superior Court. See also Grayson's blog, Grayson On Trials."

Esther Cho, Reference/Government Documents Librarian, Loyola Law School, recommends this book for "law firm libraries that specialize in litigation as it details common sense for trial lawyers and it would be a good read for a new associate to begin to understand his or her profession." See her AALL Spectrum Blog review. Lets add academic law libraries for the benefit of law students planning on a career as a trial lawyer.

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