Links

Small Firm Success
http://www.smallfirmsuccess.org/

Sponsored by Minnesota CLE, this website has resources related to personal productivity, ethics, marketing and technology.

The lexisONE® Alert, a twice-monthly newsletter that helps small firms stay in step with practice developments and on top of trends in the legal profession
http://www.lexisone.com/balancing/index.html

 Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers organization in Minnesota. LCL serves as a resource for members of the legal profession and their families. It assists with problems of chemical dependency and related issues. If you have a concern about these matters you can receive free, confidential assistance by contacting LCL at 651-646-5590.

Social Networking for Lawyers

Social networking can be a great source of information and comraderie. 

Listservs The Life and the Law has a listserv [To subscribe, send a plain-text e-mail to lyris@lists.statebar.gen.mn.us, containing two words right at the beginning of the body: subscribe lifeandthelaw -- nothing else]

The Practice Management and Marketing Section also has a very active listserv for solo attorneys: http://www2.mnbar.org/sections/practice-mgmt-marketing/discuss.asp

Check out sections and committees that you are interested in for listservs.

Linkedin.com
http://Linkedin.com  is a professional networking site with opportunities to connect, ask, and answer questions.  The Minnesota Lawyers Group can be found at http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=163363

My Practice Law
http://www.mypracticelaw.org/  is a networking site for Minnesota Lawyers.  You can share blog posts, pictures, events, and videos.  It is sponsored by the MSBA.

Blogs:

There are many helpful blogs (blawgs – law web logs) out there.  Here are some local ones of general interest:

http://mntech.typepad.com/msba/ 
The Official Blog of the Minnesota State Bar Association's Computer and Technology Law Section.

http://lawyerist.com/
A lawyer’s survival guide – much about technology with guest postings about ethics.