Last week, Attorney Krekeler gave a presentation along with Lori Kannenberg Dorn of Stafford Rosenbaum LLP, Jeff Krause of Affinity Consulting Group, and Gia Pionek of Pionek Valle Law Group about Lessons Learned from the Pandemic. Here’s his recap of it:
“For the second year in a row, the State Bar of Wisconsin Solo and Small Firm Conference featured a presentation on lessons we have learned from the pandemic.
A year ago, we had no idea we
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Nov. 1, 2021 – For the second year in a row, meeting the challenges posed by the virtual practice of law was the main topic of discussion at the Wisconsin Solo and Small Firm Conference (WSSFC) hosted by the State Bar of Wisconsin (Oct. 27-30).
With 18 months of pandemic experience under their belts, presenters shared a wealth of tips with conference attendees, who accessed the conference through a web portal and mingled in a virtual lobby and a
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In the US, the average email address is associated with 130 different online accounts, according to a study by DigitalGuardian. By my count, I have about 500. That’s a lot of passwords to manage.
The same study also reported that 11% of users have only one default password that they use across most or all accounts and 30% rarely or never change their passwords. Not so good. However, most users were more security conscious. 40% reported never reusing
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I’ve been doing some research lately about the concept of decision fatigue. What can I say, I’m a nerd. But I have found it fascinating. Decision fatigue is the idea that people get tired of making decisions, and as such either stop making them or are more likely to make poor decisions. There is actually two “breeds” of it: 1) loss of will power or self-control (ego depletion); and 2) decision overload. For the first, studies
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You may already know a bit about notaries. That’s when you have to show your driver’s license and sign a piece of paper so the person who pretended they were a bouncer while looking at your ID can put a stamp on the paper confirming that you are you. Or as the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions (“DFI”) puts it: A notary public is an individual issued an appointment by the Secretary of the Department of Financial Institutions to
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Today by Interim Rule the Treasury Department and Small Business Administration jointly made it much easier for some Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) loan borrowers to get forgiveness for their loans. If the PPP loan amount is $50,000 or less, the borrower can get full forgiveness to the extent that the loan proceeds were used for purposes permitted under PPP. Such borrowers can ignore any reductions in full-time equivalent employees or reductions in employee salary or wages that would otherwise
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We all procrastinate. Even you—yes you, with your wall calendar and your daily planner in your briefcase and your Outlook calendar synched to your phone and Siri shouting reminders at you weeks, days, hours, and minutes before each important deadline. It’s part of the human condition, and not dependent on time management skills. Most of us know how to manage our time; we just don’t follow through. Lawyers do it for more than an hour a day.
Many of
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