http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Ari+Kaplan Legal Ari Kaplan Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=261508&ca=Legal There is an old saying most often attributed to Woody Allen that “90% of life is showing up.” Actually, it turns out that the number is somewhere between 75 and 90, depending on the recollection of the person reciting the quote, but either way, the balance of life is about following up. Allen’s poin... Legal Ari Kaplan Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=261509&ca=Legal Last year, I made a mistake. I missed the opportunity to pitch articles to many of the newspapers and magazines that covered summer associate and new attorney issues in 2007. My bad, especially since I teach professionals about getting published and how to use writing for business, professional and... Legal Ari Kaplan Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=261510&ca=Legal Last week, I spent three days at LegalTech New York and was stuck by the lack of law students and junior associates in attendance. When I was at a firm, I loved running over to the nation’s largest legal technology conference for half an hour or so over lunch. I had a chance to preview new tools des... Legal Ari Kaplan Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=261511&ca=Legal While e-discovery may be Greek to many, it is those documents written in Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Russian that cause much of the trouble. These “multi-byte” languages have exponentially more characters than the 26 letters and few other punctuation marks that Latin languages like English, Spanis... Marketing Ari Kaplan Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=186385&ca=Marketing Business development in the legal community is a science, but it requires the creativity of an artist. That artistry can be demonstrated most powerfully through the written word, a tool of great lawyers for centuries. Encapsulating an interesting case or complex transaction into 500 or 1,000 words f...