Category Archives: Practice Tips

Lawyers Inner Circle Management And Marketing Conference

Written On September 24, 2008 By Bob Kraft

I’ve just finished day one of a three-day legal marketing and management conference put on by Lawyers Inner Circle. Like each of the other Lawyers Inner Circle conferences I have attended over the past few years, this one is excellent. I very highly recommend this group to any personal injury lawyer. Read more about the [...]

Posted in Bar Associations and Legal Groups, Law Firm Marketing, Practice Tips

Two Great Legal Marketing & Management Groups

Written On August 13, 2008 By Bob Kraft

I have the good fortune to be attending two excellent legal marketing and management conferences in September. I’ll be making a short presentation at one and a longer one at the other. I highly recommend both these conferences to any lawyers, especially personal injury and Social Security disability lawyers, interested in improving their marketing and [...]

Posted in Practice Tips

Featured Link – Sherpa Software

Written On August 5, 2008 By Bob Kraft

Sherpa Software is an Electronic Evidence Discovery company that offers e-mail management solutions to a wide variety of problem areas. Here is the company’s description from their Web site:
Archiving email software, email compliance – Sherpa’s archiving email software provides solutions for email compliance, email content management and email regulatory compliance and security protocols.

Sherpa Software is [...]

Posted in Computer Tips, Tricks, and Tools, Featured Link, Practice Tips

Helping Clients Who Have Language Challenges

Written On July 24, 2008 By Bob Kraft

Guest Post By Cheryl Stephens —thanks Cheryl.
Lawyers who represent people with language challenges or other disabilities ought to be aware that many of those disabilities can affect their clients’ ability to process information. But you can help make it easier, and make things go more smoothly for your clients and yourself.
Try these tips:
1. Help the [...]

Posted in Disability, Practice Tips

Facebook Gets A Facelift

Written On July 21, 2008 By Bob Kraft

An increasing number of lawyers are using the social networking Web site Facebook for making connections with lawyers in other practice areas or other geographic areas. Personally, I have three of my firm’s blogs listed at Facebook, and encourage readers to join the Kraft & Associates Blog Network there.
A story today by the Associated Press [...]

Posted in Computer Tips, Tricks, and Tools, Practice Tips

Featured Link – Muscular-Skeletal Flash Cards

Written On June 4, 2008 By Bob Kraft

Can you remember when flash cards were used just for teaching kids about colors and animals? That was then, this is now. Here are some flash cards to help you remember your muscular-skeletal abbreviations.

Posted in Internet Research or News, Practice Tips

Featured Link – Find Out If Someone Has Died

Written On January 15, 2008 By Bob Kraft

Whether you’re trying to locate a defendant in a personal injury claim or just curious about a long-lost acquaintance, sometimes you might wonder if the person has passed away. I’ve written before about the very helpful Social Security Death Index. Now a fellow member of the Dallas Trial Lawyers Association has reminded me about Legacy.com. [...]

Posted in Internet Research or News, Practice Tips

Link of the Day – Practioner’s Guide To The U.S. Court Of Appeals For The Fifth Circuit

Written On December 4, 2007 By Bob Kraft

The official Web site of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has an excellent Practitioner’s Guide. If you have business before this court, be sure to read the Practioner’s Guide before taking any action!

Posted in Link of the Day, Political and/or Judicial, Practice Tips

Link of the Day – Time And Date Calculators

Written On November 15, 2007 By Bob Kraft

When representing our personal injury clients and Social Security disability claimants, we frequently need to do date calculations — whether to know the deadline for appealing a Social Security disability denial, or to learn the last date a defendant can respond to a discovery request.
But you don’t have to be a lawyer to need date [...]

Posted in Internet Research or News, Link of the Day, Practice Tips

Link of the Day – Distraction-Free Writing (For Mac Users)

Written On October 14, 2007 By Bob Kraft

I don’t use Apple computers, although I’m more and more tempted to make the switch. I came across this very simple program for Mac user. All it does is block out everything else on your screen except a word processing program. The idea is to help those of us who are too easily distracted by [...]

Posted in Computer Tips, Tricks, and Tools, Practice Tips

Link of the Day – E-mail Disclaimer Doesn’t Do The Job

Written On October 11, 2007 By Bob Kraft

No offense, but I’ve always thought that legal disclaimers on e-mail messages are silly. And disclaimers on messages sent to listservs are just plain dumb.
The Dallas Morning News had an interesting column yesterday about such disclaimers, and how they may be ineffective. Here are excerpts.
Do you protect your e-mails with a disclaimer at the bottom [...]

Posted in Computer Tips, Tricks, and Tools, Link of the Day, Practice Tips

Link of the Day – Fix Your Computer Addictions

Written On October 9, 2007 By Bob Kraft

OK, I admit it — I’m addicted to e-mail. I live and breathe e-mail, and it can interfere with getting other work done. Do you have a computer addiction? Is it the Internet? Solitaire? Well, whetter it is, there’s a fix for it. Not a cure, but at least a temporary fix.
SourceForge has written a [...]

Posted in Computer Tips, Tricks, and Tools, Practice Tips

Link of the Day – Postage Calculator

Written On August 27, 2007 By Bob Kraft

Are you as confused as I am with the Postal Service’s new rates? You can’t just put the envelope on the scale anymore — you have to figure out which shape category it fits, and then calculate the postage from there.
Fortunately, the U.S. Postal Service is providing us with a nifty postage calculator that makes [...]

Posted in Consumer Information, Government, Link of the Day, Practice Tips

Link of the Day – StreetDelivery.com

Written On August 21, 2007 By Bob Kraft

StreetDelivery.com offers a useful service directed primarily to insurance companies, but potentially helpful to personal injury lawyers also. In a nutshell, StreetDelivery offers photographs of accident scenes, or any other type of locations. They maintain a large database of such photographs, but if the scene is not in their database, they go out and photograph [...]

Posted in Internet Research or News, Link of the Day, Practice Tips, Vehicle Law or News

Link of the Day – Spam Filter Traps Law Firms Must Avoid

Written On July 23, 2007 By Bob Kraft

The delightful Jim Calloway, in his great Law Practice Tips Blog has a recent message that every lawyer should read. Jim talks about a firm that had important e-mail correspondence from a court get lost to the firm’s spam filter. As a result, the firm was hit with a large sanctions judgment. Don’t get trapped [...]

Posted in Computer Tips, Tricks, and Tools, Legal Blogs, Link of the Day, Practice Tips

Link of the Day – Entrepreneur.com

Written On July 7, 2007 By Bob Kraft

Whether you’re a law firm or another type of small business, you’ll find many helpful resources at Entrepreneur.com.

Posted in Internet Research or News, Link of the Day, Practice Tips

Link of the Day – Law Office Software

Written On July 1, 2007 By Bob Kraft

If you’re a lawyer thinking about any type of law office software, whether accounting, case management, or anything else, chances are you’re find a link to it on the law office software page of Legal Research Services.

Posted in Computer Tips, Tricks, and Tools, Link of the Day, Practice Tips

Link of the Day – MD In A Box

Written On June 10, 2007 By Bob Kraft

"MD in a Box" sounds like a new health care clinic at Wal-Mart, but is something completely different. The brainchild of Florida lawyer Dorothy Clay Sims, who became frustrated with the testimony of insurance company medical experts during depositions in her personal injury claims, MD in a Box is intended to give plaintiff lawyers an [...]

Posted in Link of the Day, Practice Tips

Google Maps Now Has Street Views

Written On June 2, 2007 By Bob Kraft

I’ve posted before about the importance of Internet mapping programs, especially those with satellite views, to personal injury lawyers. They allow us to get a quick view of the scene of a car wreck or other type incident. I’ve also mentioned the mapping sites that have street views, and how helpful they can be to [...]

Posted in Internet Research or News, Link of the Day, Practice Tips

Link of the Day – Is He Really A Lawyer?

Written On May 28, 2007 By Bob Kraft

My friend, and my sponsor for admission to the Supreme Court of the United States, Terry Berger, has created a wonderfully useful Web site called IsHeReallyALawyer, with links to the attorney licensing authorities in every state. The purpose of the site is to make it easy to check whether someone is really a lawyer. This [...]

Posted in Consumer Information, Internet Research or News, Practice Tips