This post was written by Larry Bodine: "The most effective way to generate new files and revenue is through cross-selling, and the most efficient way to sell more services to clients is to create client teams. BTI Consulting lists client teams as one of a law firm's "Power Marketing Practices." However client teams produces data, relationships, lawyer activities, revenue goals and management work that overwhelms the team leader.

Interaction, the company known for its client relationship management software, is riding to the rescue with its new Strategic Account Management (SAM) program. According to product manager Jason Maeder the SAM program:

• Connects to all the information from Interaction's CRM system.
• Collects all contact information, activities, tasks and goals into a set of charts.
• Creates a client team workplace, so that team members and log in and see announcements, opportunities, activities and appointments..."

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Source: Law Marketing Blog, 26 August 2010. © 2010, Larry Bodine Marketing. Reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by Randall Ryder: "Once you move to a paperless office, the next step is making your files accessible from anywhere. The firm I work at uses Dropbox, which works rather well and appears to have a heads up over the competition. A relatively new service, however, called Wuala (Waa-lah), looks like a nice alternative..."

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Source: Lawyerist.com, 24 August 2010. © 2007-2010 Lawyerist Media, LLC. Reproduced with permission of the site editor, Sam Glover.

This post was written by John Heckman: "Worldox has just announced a "Complete Cloud" offering. Unlike simple SaaS programs, Worldox offers a Virtual Server 2008 in the Cloud, complete with Worldox GX2, Office 2010 Pro (including Exchange Server with spam filters), secure backup, and antivirus protection, all on a subscription basis.  It will also be possible to upload other programs to the Virtual Server as well, and run everything off the cloud. Some additional offerings, such as the Blackberry Enterprise Server, are also available, also on a subscription basis..."

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Source: Does It Compute? 24 August 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.

 This post was written by John Jantsch: "(Click to play or right click and "Save As" to download - Subscribe now via iTunes

Imagine this scenario. You run an ad that directs someone to your landing page for a free report. They fill out the form, providing only their email address, and fifteen seconds later you receive an alert that tells you this person is a very high profile blogger, connector and influencer in your industry - just the kind of person you are looking for to pilot your new white labeled service.

The process described above is no longer fiction due to an innovative new service called Flowtown. In this week's episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast I visited with Flowtown cofounder and CEO Ethan Bloch. Flowtown's mission, according to Bloch, is to help businesses paint a really rich story about their customers by appending each customer's social media activity to their record. Or, as they put it on their website - turn an email into a social profile. I equate this to the high tech version of the salesperson of past days that knew how to quickly establish some sort of common ground with a prospect or customer..."

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Source: Duct Tape Marketing, © 2003-2010 Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing, 18 August 2010. Reproduced with permission of the author.

Podcast description from the site: "Collaborating in business with SharePoint can be very convenient. It can also be a dumping ground for electronic documents. On this edition of Litigation Support Reivew, host Mary Pat Poteet, an eDiscovery/Litigation Support expert with almost 20 years experience, welcomes Larry Briggi, Director of the Electronic and Evidence Consulting group of FTI Consulting's Technology practice base in New York to discuss the challenges of forensic data recovery with SharePoint and a helpful list of do's and don'ts.

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August 6, 2010 -- The Use of SaaS in the Legal Field

July 27, 2010 -- Decade of E-Discovery, Compliance Challenges & Privacy

July 2, 2010 -- A Look at Data Breaches

May 20, 2010 -- The North Carolina State Bar & Cloud Computing

May 12, 2010 -- Exploring the Virtual Law Practice

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Source: Legal Talk Network, 20 August 2010. © 2010 · Legal Talk Network. Reproduced with permission of Scott R. Hess. 

This post was written by John Heckman: "Word 2003 and 2007 have a "feature" that creates a read-only copy of a document when you copy it to start a new document.  This can sometimes be turned on without users being aware of it.  In theory it is supposed to prompt you when you create the new document, but that doesn't always work. The net result is that users wind up with documents they can't edit and don't know why.

To turn off this feature in a given document, in Word 2003, go to Tools | Options | Security and uncheck the box that says "Read Only Recommended."

In Word 2007, Select "Save As" a Word document. When the Save box appears, click "Tools" at the bottom left corner, then General Options. Make sure the box "Read-Only Recommended" is NOT checked.  Note that if you are using a document management system such as Worldox, you will have to exit out of the DMS in order to get the native Word 2007 save dialog to do this.

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Source: Does It Compute? 4 August 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.

Podcast description from the site: "On this edition of The Legal ToolKit, brought to you by Catuogno Court Reporting, host Jared Correia, Law Practice Management Advisor with Mass. LOMAP, welcomes Larry Port, Founding Partner and Chief Software Architect for Rocket Matter, to take a look at the use of software as a service (SaaS) in the legal field. Jared and Larry talk about what kind of SaaS applications are available for legal professionals, ethical considerations for attorneys using SaaS products and how SaaS companies can protect your sensitive data.

Related Podcasts

• July 2, 2010 -- A Look at Data Breaches
• May 12, 2010 -- Exploring the Virtual Law Practice
• June 15, 2010 -- Protecting your Business through Email Encryption
• April 6, 2010 -- IOLTA Accounting: Part Two
• June 29, 2010 -- Outsourcing Legal Work to India - Even Solos Do It

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Source: Legal Talk Network, 6 August 2010. © 2010 · Legal Talk Network. Reproduced with permission of Scott R. Hess.

In the news: "Attorney Laurie Weiss and Tom Barce of Fulbright & Jaworski describe how the firm's deployment of Recommind's Axcelerate eDiscovery with predictive coding functionality, concept clustering and data analytics automated e-discovery workflows and reduced the time and cost of document review."

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Source: Law.Com's Daily Legal Newswire. 1 August 2010. Copyright 2009.  ALM Properties, Inc. All rights reserved. Subscribe <http://store.law.com/registration/register.asp?subscribeto=nw>.

This post was written by StephanieWestAllen:  "Excerpt:

Many large firms have been slow to invest in legal software, which helps streamline and expedite case work, because individual programs can be both expensive and too field-specific for generalist practices. Boutiques, however, which concentrate on only a few legal aspects, can justify investment in a handful of such programs because they are more likely to use them repeatedly. This has allowed the boutiques to become far more efficient in their chosen fields than their larger rivals, according to Barron Henley, a legal technologist with Affinity Consulting Group in Columbus..."

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Source: idealawg, 8 August 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by Randall Ryder: "You can easily create your law firm's website and you can also easily track traffic to your site with Google Analytics. Now you can use a program that will send you weekly emails showing the visitor statistics for your website.

Metric Mail keeps it simple..."

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Source: Lawyerist.com, 9 August 2010. © 2007-2010 Lawyerist Media, LLC. Reproduced with permission of the site editor, Sam Glover.