I will be Live Blogging from the February 11 ABA TECHSHOW Road Show, which takes place at the MBA's Boston office this Wednesday from 9:30 to 3:45.The Road Show will feature nationally prominent law practice management advisors, including our very…
The most complicated thing about techshows, or tech shows, is the determination of the appropriate way to describe them. Is “techshow” one word, or is “tech show” two words? However you call it, LegalTech New York 2009 (which resolves the…
Lawyers are an insular people. The social experiment is begun in the first year of law school. The July before you start law school, you’re a well-rounded individual. By September of your 1L Year, you can’t talk with normal human…
I made a presentation with my fellow Massachusetts Bar Association Law Practice Management Council members. These included Sally Stratman, Executive Director at Rubin & Rudman, Terry Walsh, President of Mass. Bar Association Insurance, Inc., and Alan Klevan, LPM co-chair and…
On January 6, I attended a program at the Boston Bar Association on the topic of “Employment Discrimination Claims and Small Businesses”. The program’s faculty analyzed the impact of the SJC’s decision in Thurdin v. SEI Boston, LLC. Since the…
I am excited to welcome LOMAP’s new law practice advisor as a contributor to the Massachusetts Law Practice Advisor blog. Jared Correia, Esq., has practiced with several law firms in Massachusetts and worked as the publications attorney at the Massachusetts…
An important factor in making the decision about which software you will purchase is the usability, or ease of learning critical functions of the software. Software is made more usable if it is intuitive for the user and if there…
One of the most important requirements of the new Massachusetts Data Breach Law regulations, effective May 1, 2009, will be the encryption of personal information on portable computers and portable electronic storage devices such as USB thumb drives, and external…
The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has posted notice that it seeks an experienced attorney as a part-time Boston-based settlement counsel. For details and salary range go to the First Circuit's website.
My co-chair of the BBA solo and small firm section, Lori Yarvis, Esq., recently sent the following newsletter to her clients concerning the impact of the Massachusetts data breach Law on the small businesses. I thought that the topic was…