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How to Read a Poem: Beginner’s Manual
In celebration of Easter, here’s a present that will delight. Best of all, it is low-calorie and will not enrage your dentist. Enjoy! How to Read a Poem: Beginner’s Manual by Pamela Spiro Wagner...
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The Value of a Post Office Box
Sometimes those small things we routinely take for granted give us cause to remember how valuable they are in their ordinariness. This fact was driven home to me last night when I mailed off my...
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100 and Counting
Yesterday we visited the matriarch of our family to celebrate a special occasion — her 100th birthday. She showed us the many humorous and touching birthday cards she had received (including one from...
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Regrets
There aren’t many things I regret in life, but every year at this time I remember one particularly bad decision. It happened when I was in graduate school. A group of my friends thought it might be...
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Rough Diamond
$35.5 million is a lot to spend on potential, but that’s the record-setting price a private jewelry retailer recently paid for a 507-carat rough diamond. According to the Associated Press report, The...
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A Safe Place for Personal Contacts
The members of my family are fortunate in our friends. We are reminded of this fact every year when we send and receive hundreds of holiday cards. Last year, however, we didn’t send out even one card....
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Bags and Baggage
Friday was crazy busy as I tried to wrap things up at work, while completing final preparations for ILTA 2010. In the midst of all of this, I found myself focused on bags and baggage: For a variety of...
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New York, New York
They say that the three most important factors in determining the value of a property are “location, location, location.” We’ve certainly learned the truth of that old adage this week. We were among...
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Gunpowder, KM and Elections
When I was a child, we celebrated Guy Fawkes’ Day on November 5. For those of you who aren’t up on your British history, Guy Fawkes was one of a group of conspirators who planned to blow up the House...
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New Year, New Beginnings
Every so often, it’s good to surprise the people you know. This year, it’s my turn. I came to New York City to work as a first-year associate in a fabulous firm. The deal I made with my family at that...
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Remembering Carl Frappaolo
On Thursday, March 21, the family and friends of Carl Frappaolo are gathering in Boston to celebrate the life of one of the leaders of the knowledge management community. Since I cannot be in Boston...
View ArticleTalking About an Evolution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq-URl9F17Y All healthy things evolve. According to the comedian, Jimmy Fallon, even “Mom Dancing: evolves. If you don’t believe him, take a look at the video above....
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If Southwest Airlines Ran Your Law Firm
Earlier this year I wrote a post entitled, If Dominos Ran Your Law Firm. That post focused on the window on its operations that Dominos Pizza provides to its customers via the Dominos Tracker. Of...
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A Bump in the Blogging Road
A few kind readers contacted me recently to tell me they were worried that something had happened to the RSS feed for this blog. It turns out that they had reason to be concerned. Something was wrong...
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Solve Critical Business Problems with Social Software
For most sophisticated companies, the issue of social software is not a new one. If you’ve read my reports from the Enterprise 2.0 conference, you’ll see summaries of some interesting and innovative...
View ArticleIron Tech Lawyers: Unleashing Technology to Improve the Practice of Law
For years optimists have said that things will get better once Millennials become associates in law firms. According to these optimists, this younger cohort will bring new values and new ways of...
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Daniel Katz: Data Driven Law Practice
This session is presented by Daniel Martin Katz, Assistant Professor of Law, Michgan State University & Co-Director, Reinvent Law Laboratory at MSU Law. [These are my notes from the 2013 Ark Group...
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What Are You Trying to Measure and Why?
This session is entitled “Objective Business Strategy: What Are You Trying to Measure and Why?” The panelists are: Doug Doerfler (Chief Financial Officer, Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP), Stuart Kay...
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Lisa Damon: The Evolution of Business Analytics at Seyfarth Shaw
Lisa J. Damon is a member of Seyfarth Shaw’s Executive Committee. [These are my notes from the 2013 Ark Group Conference: Business Intelligence and Analytics in the Legal Profession. Since I'm...
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When Corporate Legal Departments Use Business Analytics to Measure Law Firms
This session is entitled “How corporate legal departments are using analytics to measure the value of the products and services they buy.” The panelists are Bob Ingato (Executive Vice President,...
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