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2015 OBA Solo & Small Firm Conference and YLD Midyear Meeting
By Jim Calloway This year’s OBA Solo & Small Firm Conference is not to be missed! This year’s conference contains critical information gathered for you all in one place. Even if you may not consider your firm a “small firm,” this year’s conference is for you. Because this year we are featuring a program called...
Uniformity vs. Creativity
By Jim Calloway COMES NOW the writer, and for his February Law Practice Tips column in the Oklahoma Bar Journal alleges and states as follows. That is lawyer-speak for “Greetings.” I recall during law school when I was working for a law firm, I asked an experienced lawyer why we started all pleadings with “COMES...
New Client Inquiry on Line One
By Jim Calloway It’s the beginning of a new year and most lawyers want to have new clients and new matters to start a new year. And the beginning of a new year is a good time to take stock and make business plans. We hear and read a lot about lawyer marketing these days....
A Little of This, A Little of That, Things Lawyers and Law Firms Should Do Soon
By Jim Calloway Last month in this space I wrote a Law Practice Tips column titled “Thinking about Tomorrow” which encouraged, among other things, Oklahoma lawyers to attend our annual meeting and hear famed futurist Richard Susskind discuss his view of the future of law. This month’s column will cover a wide variety of topics...
Thinking About Tomorrow
By Jim Calloway “Navigating the Changing Legal Profession” is the theme for this month’s edition of the Oklahoma Bar Journal and the OBA Annual Meeting. That’s a topic in which I have much interest. Every lawyer not actively engaged in finalizing their retirement plans should also pay attention to future trends. But it’s not that...
Client: ‘Can My Parents Pay for My Attorney Fees?’, Lawyer: ‘Yes, but…’
By Jim Calloway Some lawyers and I recently were discussing the problems of family law cases in which the parents are paying for a child’s attorney’s fees. It is a very common situation, given the finances of many young married couples. Parents are usually quite willing to pay for attorney’s fees in family law matters...
What Is Your Law Firm’s Social Media Strategy?
By Jim Calloway Everyone (including me) says your law firm has to have a website and almost everyone says that your law firm really needs to also have social media accounts, which are also, at least in part, websites. Most of you understand how that can be true as two of your big gateways for...
Recent Technology News and Developments for 2014
By Jim Calloway There’s been quite a lot of technology-related news over the last several months. Some of it is directly related to the legal profession. Much of it is at least indirectly related to the legal profession. There have also been some interesting court rulings related to technology. Rather than featuring just a few...
ABA TECHSHOW 2014
By Jim Calloway ABA TECHSHOW 2014 was reported to have had an all-time record number of registered attendees, including at least seven from Oklahoma. There are other legal technology conferences, but ABA TECHSHOW is special. No other conference brings together so many of the people who write and blog about technology, do technology consulting for law...
Reading Online News Items (2014 Edition)
By Jim Calloway The 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web just occurred. The creation date is said to be March 12, 1989, which is the date that Sir Tim Berners-Lee wrote a paper proposing an arrangement of information organization and linking that grew into the WWW. Now 87 percent of American adults use the...