I'm the Director of the Center for Practice Management for the North Carolina Bar Association. I spend my days helping lawyers start and run their practices. Law Practice Matters is my online notebook for things I find valuable or interesting and that I hope lawyers will find the same.

I like solutions that are simple and that let lawyers be lawyers.

As opposed to computer geeks, web designers, or management gurus, I'm not a born techie or spreadsheet-ranger. I don't geek out on unlocking deeply hidden secrets of software or creating complicated work-flow systems that require a degree from MIT to understand. Wherever possible, I try to provide or spotlight things that make running a law firm a little easier, a little less hassle and a little more fun.

When I am not working or blogging here, I also:

• Write a technology column for TechnoLawyer's SmallLaw
• Write the Web 2.0 Column for Law Practice Magazine
• Serve on the Planning Board of ABA TECHSHOW 
• Serve on the Program Committee of the National Association of Bar Executives

And when I am not doing any of that stuff, I like hanging out with my wife and beagle in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Thanks for stopping by.