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Practiced law and worked with:
- Small Firms
- Middle Sized Firms
- Large Firm
Consulted and worked with:
- Corporate Law
- Departments
- Courts
- Attorneys General
- Public Defenders
- Government Agencies
- Software Publishers
Research:
- Harvard Center for Law and Education
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- Nation's largest integrator for very large law
firms
- Small Consulting Firm
- Software firm: both commercial software publisher
and custom developer
- Microsoft Certified Solution Provider, Lotus
Notes Business Partner
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- Entrepreneur in consulting, software and law
practice. Ran every aspect of the business.
- Worked with large, national integrator.
- Marketing seminars, expertise in sales direct
selling, team selling
- Know how to market to small firms, large firms,
and corporate, and to lawyers, technical staff,
and administrators.
- Deep experience giving advice and presentations
on management.
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Leadership positions and presentations for:
- ABA (American Bar Association)
- ICLE (Institute of Continuing Legal Education)
- State Bars (Michigan, Minnesota, etc.)
- ALA (Assn. of Legal Administrators)
- ALI-ABA
- ATLA (Association of Trial Lawyers of America)
- PLI (Practicing Law Institute)
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- Federal and State Securities Practice
- Trial Practice
- Real Estate
- Wills and Trusts (including generation-skipping)
- Employee Benefit Plans under ERISA
- Corporate Practice
- Computer and Intellectual Property Law
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- Application of Software to the Practice of Law
- Software Selection
- Programming
- Database Management
- Technical Writing and Documentation
- Microsoft, WordPerfect, Lotus Notes
- Legal Expert Systems
- Billing, Accounting
- Case Management
- Networks
- Hardware
- Internet/ World Wide Web
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- Leadership
- Accounting
- File Organization
- Time accounting and billing
- Sales and Marketing to the legal profession:
- Attorneys
- Tech staff
- Mgt.
- Sales
- Product Development Cycles and product planning
- Strategic Planning
- Effective use of software to support a business
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- Organization and Politics of leading bar groups
- How to get things done
- How to give effective presentations to bar groups
- How to put on an effective educational conference
- How to write articles lawyers read
- Deep knowledge of personnel, leadership, and
procedures within the Law Practice Management
Section of the ABA
- Publishing (magazines, books)
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After graduating from law school, I began work with
one of the last great generalists, and became exposed to
an extraordinary range of practice experiences:
- Tried jury trials and "second seated"
federal jury trials of securities cases
- Argued cases before federal and state appellate
courts (MO and MI)
- Drafted and qualified 401K and defined benefit
pension plans under ERISA
- Public offerings of securities
- Probate and Estate Planning Practice, including
creation of high-end document drafting system
- NLRB matters
- General legal matters for hundreds of small
corporations.
- Divorce/Family Law
After moving to Michigan, I continued to handle
general matters, and in addition created a specialty in
computer law:
- Computer Law practice, specializing in licensing,
copyright, trademark, trade secrets, and the law
of software houses.
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I became fascinated with what computers could do in
1979, and left full time law practice in 1980. I am
self-taught, and have real, hands-on experience in using,
programming, documenting, and teaching just about every
computer application in the law.
- Legal Document Automation of dozens of practice
systems
- Created World Wide Web site for our business and
Washtenaw County Unified Courts.
- Developed and published WinDraft, Corporate
Update, EP Expert, and QP Expert -- all software
for legal document drafting -- add-ins to
WordPerfect and MS Word
- Certified in Lotus Notes and PC DOCS
- Developed specialized integration tools for MS
Word and DOCS used at leading law firms and Minn
Atty Gen.
- Network integration of large, multi-office law
firms with Microsoft Windows NT/BackOffice,
Novell, DOCS Open
- Consulting for 3M, Dow, Federal Express, and
other law departments.
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- As a lawyer, formed and set up dozens of new
businesses (corp, partnerships, etc.), including
corporate and securities matters, employment
agreements, buy-sell, etc.
- When with Automation Partners, played leadership
role in "putting the company on the
map" and closing 12 out of 13
multi-million-dollar integration projects in
Chicago.
- Attended seminars on direct marketing and have
worked on wide variety of projects to market to
lawyers. Member of NALV, and deep knowledge of
public relations, direct marketing to lawyers,
and legal trade shows.
- Successfully developed, documented, tested,
shipped, and supported a number of software
packages for law firm network use (Windows
95/NT/3.x, DOS, Novell)
- 20 years experience in all aspects of running a
small business, including delivery of products
and services, setting up and running accounting
systems, hiring and human relations, management,
leadership, etc.
- Co-chair of ABA committee on application of
leadership principles to law practice. Working
with the experts, we studied Senge, Covey,
Bennis, and Campbell.
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- 15 years leadership positions (Council Member,
etc) in ABA Law Practice Management Section
- Founder of ABA IBM PC User Group, Chair of
Practice Systems Interest Group
- Hundreds of successful presentations to hotel
ballrooms of lawyers on law firm technology and
on intellectual property law.
- Recent highly successful presentations of
"How to Win Cases and Improve the Bottom
Line" to large audiences for state bars of
Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota
- 8 years on Tech Show planning committee
- Co-Editor of Winning with Computers,
Volumes I and II, best-selling book on Computers
in Litigation
- Dozens of published articles for ABA Journal, Law
Prac. Mgt, Compleat Lawyer, Nat. Law Journal, Law
Office Computing
- Co-Chair Leadership and Teamwork Taskforce
- Participated in and completed formal
speaker-training workshops.
- Member, National College of Law Practice
Management
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