While some lawyers are very tuned into social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, many have yet to realize the communications potential of these tools. The newest issue of LawPRO Magazine aims to change this.

Here's a sample of the topics covered:

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You can access the rest of the articles in this issue on the magazine page of the LAWPRO site.

Dan Pinnington is a technology evangelist and is well known for his “tech tips”. As the Director, practicePRO at the Lawyers’ Professional Indemnity Company (LAWPRO), Dan helps lawyers avoid malpractice claims. His vision, energy and ideas have made practicePRO an internationally recognized claims prevention initiative. He is a prolific writer, speaker and blogger on legal malpractice, risk management, legal technology, and law practice management issues. He is a veteran of hundreds of presentations at law firms and conferences all over North America and has chaired more than a dozen major conferences. Dan was inducted as a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management in 2007. The American Bar Association just published The Busy Lawyer’s Guide To Success: Tips to Power Your Practice, a book he co-authored with Reid Trautz. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the ABA LPM’s Law Practice magazine, was Chair of ABA TECHSHOW 2007 and helped launch the Law Practice Today Webzine.
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3 Comments on “New Issue of LawPRO Magazine Covers Social Media”

  1. Thank you for sharing, Dan. It looks very interesting–will be reading this one cover-to-cover!

    Cheers,
    Connie

  2. I just read the latest issue of LawPro that covers social media… It was very interesting and informative, well laid out. I quite enjoyed it and took a lot from it to put in practice. Good job… great resource.

  3. John G says:

    AND it's a delight to see 'social media' properly treated as a plural! I heard a fascinating presentation yesterday about law and social media, but persistently saying "social media is … [this or that]" like fingernails on a blackboard.

    Even if one can't figure out that media is plural, there are so many different variations (should one say avatars) of social media that the term almost insists on its own plurality.

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