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2026
August
12,
2026
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10:40 AM
America/Chicago
Paul Unger is a lawyer, speaker, and author in the field of legal technology. He has lectured in the United States, Canada, and Australia. Contact Unger at punger@affinityconsulting.com.
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April
01,
2026
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07:00 AM
America/Chicago
Jeffrey Schoenberger is a senior consultant at Affinity Consulting Group LLC.
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February
18,
2026
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07:00 AM
America/Chicago
Jordan L. Turk, Smokeball attorney and director of education
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2025
June
04,
2025
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07:00 AM
America/Chicago
Jeffrey S. Krause is a senior consultant at Affinity Consulting Group LLC. Jeffrey R. Schoenberger is a senior consultant at Affinity Consulting Group LLC.
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June
03,
2025
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09:30 AM
America/Chicago
JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI — June 3, 2025 - Smokeball, the industry-leading legal practice management software platform, announced an exclusive partnership today with The Missouri Bar to provide all of its members with no-cost access to Smokeball …
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April
02,
2025
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07:00 AM
America/Chicago
Alan Freed has devoted his career to the practice of family law, as a trial and appellate lawyer, mediator, collaborative practitioner, and teacher. Freed has been listed in Best Lawyers in various family law-related areas of practice since 2007 and …
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February
19,
2025
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04:00 AM
America/Chicago
Affinity CounselingSolo and small firms often find the role of a bookkeeper tough to fill. Most small firms may not need a full-time bookkeeper, leading them to try incomplete solutions or handle the work themselves. In many small firms, no single …
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January
15,
2025
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12:00 PM
America/Chicago
Jeff Schoenberger, with Affinity consulting Microsoft Outlook allows you to create and save email templates that can help you even better serve your clients by communicating more effectively and efficiently. If you’re familiar with …
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2024
December
30,
2024
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08:00 AM
America/Chicago
Steven J. Best, owner of Affinity ConsultingChances are you have a credit card in your wallet right now. And I would bet you have an expectation that merchants will regularly accept your card as payment for goods and services. Your law firm’s …
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November
27,
2024
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09:00 AM
America/Chicago
Jeffrey Schoenberger, Affinity Consulting Group Collaboration happens in two forms: asynchronous and real-time. We generally prefer asynchronous communication — text messages, emails, and perhaps voicemails — over real-time communication. How …
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November
13,
2024
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09:00 AM
America/Chicago
By Jeffrey S. Krause, Affinity ConsultingYou probably remember your first laptop. You may also remember how difficult it was to use a laptop as your primary workstation. The laptop’s size limited the number of outputs it supported. The solution? A …
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September
25,
2024
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06:00 AM
America/Chicago
By Danielle DavisRoe, with Affinity ConsultingIf an unforeseen emergency – like another pandemic – occurred, would you already have contingency plans in place? If you retired, would the law firm continue operating smoothly? Strategic succession and …
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September
11,
2024
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07:00 AM
America/Chicago
By Affinity ConsultingDo you have a nagging suspicion that you’re missing something when running your firm? Maybe some key insight that would make your firm more competitive. Or perhaps a way to run your firm more efficiently to even better serve …
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August
28,
2024
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07:00 AM
America/Chicago
By Jeffrey R. Schoenberger, senior consultant at Affinity Consulting Group LLCLawyers and their firms interact with all manner of websites and services, and care that private information is safely managed. We also operate websites and services where …
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August
14,
2024
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07:00 AM
America/Chicago
By Bryce Phillips, senior document management consultant at Affinity Consulting GroupDocument management solutions are critical to the success of today’s law firm. Legal specific document management eliminates the wild, wild west approach to …
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July
24,
2024
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06:00 AM
America/Chicago
By Paul Unger, founding partner and owner of Affinity Consulting Group LLCIt's a crazy world. Social media, 24-hour news cycle, client emergencies - it's a wonder we get anything done. We’ve all heard of a “to-do” list designed to help increase our …
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June
26,
2024
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07:00 AM
America/Chicago
By Jeffrey Schoenberger, senior consultant at Affinity Consulting Group, LLCWhen we think about what to put on a firm website, remember that your clients are normal people, and so are you. Why do you visit a business’ website? Determine what’s …
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June
12,
2024
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07:00 AM
America/Chicago
By Jeffrey Schoenberger, senior consultant with Affinity Consulting GroupFor lawyers – particularly solos and those responsible for making payroll each month – it seems there are only two states of the business. Either you are too busy to breathe, …
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May
15,
2024
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06:00 AM
America/Chicago
The billable hour. It’s a lawyer’s ticket to unlimited wealth – we think anyway. If we’re not careful, it is also a ticket to stress, countless headaches, and, often for new lawyers and even experienced ones, total burnout. Three perks make billable …
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March
06,
2024
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00:00 AM
America/Chicago
“The development of AI is as fundamental as the creation of the microprocessor, the personal computer, the internet, and the mobile phone.” — Bill Gates
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2022
June
13,
2022
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14:14 PM
America/Chicago
by Smokeball Growing your law firm requires careful planning and strategizing. If you started your firm as a solo practitioner, you may already have completed some of these exercises, but now it’s time to think bigger …
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May
23,
2022
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08:00 AM
America/Chicago
Check out this quick video tip about conditional formatting in Microsoft Excel from the Affinity Insight course live training session Excel - Readily Readable Data.
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March
17,
2022
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12:00 PM
America/Chicago
Wanting to embrace new technology at work, but not sure how to start implementing changes? As many in the legal profession know, it’s not always easy to adapt to new technology and programs. Software implementations quickly fall flat if users do not …
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January
12,
2022
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06:00 AM
America/Chicago
By Charles Coffey, The Bar Plan Mutual Insurance Company Note: This is the final piece of a three-part series from The Bar Plan Mutual Insurance Company. The first part (about legal malpractice insurance) ran Dec. 15, 2021, and the second part …
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2021
October
20,
2021
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07:00 AM
America/Chicago
By Jeffrey Schoenberger, senior consultant at Affinity Consulting Group LLCDepending on your firm’s size, you may be one of several people, one of a few, or the only person who know how to do important firm tasks. This compartmentalization has …
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July
28,
2021
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07:00 AM
America/Chicago
By Jeffrey S. Krause, Affinity ConsultingMoneyball Analytics is based on the book “Moneyball, The Art of Winning an Unfair Game” by Michael Lewis. The book became the basis for the movie “Moneyball,” which told the story of …
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May
19,
2021
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06:00 AM
America/Chicago
By Jeffrey Schoenberger, Affinity Consulting As a legal professional, you have encountered your fair share of PDF files and assumably created more than a few. Even in our personal lives, PDFs are …
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April
07,
2021
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07:00 AM
America/Chicago
By Danielle DavisRoe, Affinity Consulting Group Succession planning is all about leaving a legacy. Lawyers who built their firms from the ground up and who contributed blood, sweat, and tears to the firms deserve …
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April
06,
2021
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17:17 PM
America/Chicago
Supreme Court Rule 4-1.11 is designed to limit potential ethical problems when lawyers move from government service to private practice and vice versa.
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February
24,
2021
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08:00 AM
America/Chicago
By Jeffrey Schoenberger, Affinity ConsultingYou don’t have to be into politics or ceremonial occasions to have seen, understood, and enjoyed the Sen. Bernie Sanders photo and consequent memes from President Joe Biden’s inauguration. If …
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