Maine Law Practice Management

It’s   almost always  hard to find good attorneys.   That’s  especially true in certain practice areas – family law, for example.  Some firms try to hire, and fail –  or,  they never bring on a candidate in the first place, because  they  never come across a good fit.   It’s  rough out there.     But,  hiring  isn’t  the only way to add staff.   While very few attorneys  actually  engage  this strategy, growth by acquisition is a possibility, as well, for  even  solo and small firms.   Because,  yes – one way to  acquire   staff,  is to  acquire  a business  (that could include  both  lawyers  and  administrative staff) .   There are plenty of solo and small firm lawyers out there with a waning desire to manage  a business –  they’d  rather take a paycheck, potentially with some u...

If  you’re  old & decrepit like me, you  probably get  to  wondering , from time to time, what ever happened to sticky notes – which were once ubiquitous in offices across the world.     Well, much  like the dinosaurs , sticky notes  have not ended, just changed.     There are plenty of places where you can create electronic sticky notes.   Project/task management  softwares , like  Trello , offer kanban views, which are like electronic sticky notes.     Notetaking  softwares , like  Evernote , and even  Microsoft OneNote  or  Google Keep , can be used like stick y  notes.     Notebook  softwares ,  such as   Google Notebook LM  and  Microsoft CoPilot Notebooks ,  add artificial intelligence to traditional notetaking  softwares  – taking sticky notes to another level entirely.     Miss sticky notes ?   You...