First, kill all the e-mails.

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LAWYERS LOOKING TO INCREASE their productivity don't necessarily need to spend more time in the office. They just need to spend less time reading their e-mail.

According to a nationwide survey, attorneys receive an average of 48 e-mails per day, both business and personal in nature. That amounts to a new message arriving every 10 minutes of the workday. The survey was developed for The Affiliates, a staffing service specializing in attorneys, paralegals and legal support professionals, It is based on responses from 200 attorneys among the nation's 1,200 largest law firms.

DUO REUNITES AT STATERA

When Carl Fitch joined Denver IT consulting firm Statera as CEO in February, he reunited with old partner Brad Wydert, the president and founder of Statera (featured as the ColoradoBiz I-Tech startup of the month in January). Back in 1992, Fitch and Wydert co-founded Raymond James Consulting, which they grew from startup to a company that generated more than $70 million in revenue In 2000.

BEST WEB SITE LEGALLY SPEAKING

The Web site for the law firm Faegre & Benson LLP was named the No. 1 law-firm site in the nation for 2002 by the consulting group Internet Marketing Attorney. Faegre & Benson's site, www.faegre.com, was singled out for its client content and interactive features, Faegre & Benson LLP has offices in Denver, Boulder, Minneapolis, Des Moines, Iowa, Frankfurt, Germany and Shanghai, China.

NETWORKING IN DEMAND

Networking tops the list of jobs most in demand by the nation's chief information officers, largely because of increased demand for professionals experienced in identifying and protecting against security breaches. In the semi-annual RHI Consulting Hot Jobs Report, 18 percent of IT executives said networking is the fastest-growing Job specialty within their departments. The jobs fall under the titles of network engineer, systems analyst and network security specialist. Internet/Intranet development was the second-most sought-after area of expertise. Data/database management ranked third.

DOWNTURN MEANS UPSWING IN IT TRAINING

Unemployment in the IT sector has reached a 10-year high of 3.1 percent, according to Boulder-based World Women in Technology, but If anything, the economic downturn seems to be helping the IT training industry. Framingham, Mass.-based International Data Corp., estimates that IT training revenue will Increase from 522 billion in 2000 to nearly S41 billion in 2005. Much of this increase Is expected to come from...