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4/19/2012
The #ABATECHSHOW Trend Keeps Going
We hear from attendees; "it's all about the great speakers", or "the buzzing EXPO Hall is why I attend". We love hearing both. This year we heard something different from attendees. "It's all about the people." – Tweeted using the #ABATECHSHOW hashtag after the Conference ended. Read more...
3/26/2012
10 Tips for Using Mobile Safari on an iPad
When Apple first introduced the iPad, they described the web-surfing experience as like "holding the Internet in your hands." Not only were you literally holding the Internet browser in your hands, you simply touched a link with your finger instead of clicking it with your mouse (although curiously, watch what happens to your mouse cursor when you hover over a link in Internet Explorer or Firefox). Read more...
3/21/2012
Seven Tips for Building up Your LinkedIn Network
Lawyers sometimes seem to forget that LinkedIn is a site for professional networking. In case you'd forgotten, "networking" is a process of meeting new people in a business or social context. Read more...
3/21/2012
The Cloud is So Much More
Cloud computing refers to "everything out there," that is, "stuff's not on your computer." Most lawyers are already using cloud computing but may not even realize it. Read more...
3/20/2012
Breached Law Firm Apparently Won't Tell Its Clients
If your law firm is breached, you have an ethical duty to tell your clients. You also have a statutory duty since almost every state has a data breach notification law. Read more...
3/20/2012
Easier Document Collaboration
If you are still emailing drafts back and forth when co-authoring a document, take a look at one of the increasingly sophisticated online document collaboration tools. Read more...
3/16/2012
Preparing to Litigate: The Latest Smart Litigation Management Tools
In this era of technology, I'm still amazed at how many lawyers aren't taking full advantage of the resources out there that can help them prepare better and more efficiently for trial. Read more...
3/13/2012
Make Your Website the Hub of Your Online Networking
In speaking about law firm websites, a key point I try to emphasize is that a website is not the end of your online marketing – it is only the beginning, a launching point. Read more...
3/8/2012
So Who Cares About Social Media?
Litigators do. Or at least they should care about social media. An astounding number of people and companies are sharing important personal and business information on a variety of social media platforms, every day. Read more...
3/8/2012
How to Use Branding and a Client-Centered Website to Turn Website Visitors into Firm Clients
Many law firms have attractive websites with detailed descriptions about the firm, the education and awards of its attorneys, and firm practice area descriptions. When it comes to websites, prospective clients don't call the firm with the best design, the most content, or the most impressive lists of legal accomplishments. Read more...
3/6/2012
ABA TECHSHOW is More Than Just CLE
Why do people return time and time again to ABA TECHSHOW? Read more...
3/2/2012
Five Blogging Mistakes You Can Easily Fix
I read a lot of blogs. I am often impressed by the quality of the posts. Many lawyers consistently write thoughtful, insightful posts about their practices and interests. Even so, I often notice simple mistakes in lawyers' blogs that can detract from their ability to build readership. Here are five common mistakes that you can easily fix. Read more...
3/1/2012
ABA TECHSHOW 2012: "The Business Case for Going Paperless"
So you've decided to move to a more paperless environment. Now what? How do you accomplish your goals, make sure your whole team is on board, and not break the bank? Read more...
2/23/2012
A Better Way to Ingest All Those Business Cards You Get
Business cards are both a blessing and a curse. The blessing is that they provide a quick and easy way to exchange contact information. The curse come when you get back to your office and have to figure out what to do with them. Basically, you have two choices. Read more...
2/22/2012
Why ABA TECHSHOW is About Your Future
Your future is directly influenced by decisions of others inside and outside the legal profession. Although change is always occurring, new influencers – and in particular technology - are fundamentally changing how we do business as lawyers. Read more...
2/21/2012
Are You a Mobile Lawyer?
Have you ever wanted to practice law while sitting on the beach on vacation? Don't just dream it. You can do it. Read more...
2/17/2012
Desktop Virtualization: What's Old is New Again
Anyone old enough to remember standing in line to see the first (and best) Star Wars movie or seeing Bob Barker with Man-tan free skin can remember seeing or working with the dumb computer terminals of the time. Read more...
2/15/2012
The Debate Resurfaces: WordPerfect vs. Word
How fitting that Law Technology News reporter Evan Koblentz would pick Valentine's Day to discuss the new version of Corel WordPerfect that will be shipping this spring. After all, the devotion some lawyers bear for WordPerfect can be understood only as a love affair – an affair driven by passion, not reason. Read more...
2/14/2012
Work From Almost Anywhere? Learn How at ABA TECHSHOW 2012
Does the idea of working from home, your cottage, or even when travelling abroad sound like an impossible dream? Turn that dream into a reality! Don't miss "Mobile Lawyering: Tools of the Trade" session that Marc Matheny and I will be presenting at the ABA TECHSHOW 2012. Read more...
2/6/2012
Is There a Tablet War? (Or has Apple taken control of the Tablet / Pad Market?)
I recently joined the iPad revolution, and have been thoroughly infatuated with my iPad2 since I started using it. Not a day goes by that I'm not looking for some new use for my iPad. I was reading a history book on early 20th Century Europe on my reader. Then, I began to wonder, is this an iPad revolution, or has Apple stormed the gates and taken control of the palace, so to speak. Read more...
2/3/2012
Document Assembly Comes to Practice Management in the Cloud
Cloud-based practice management platforms have been growing in popularity in recent years, particularly among lawyers in solo and smaller firms. Services such as Clio, Rocket Matter, LexisNexis Firm Manager and MyCase offer a full suite of features, including matter management, calendaring, document management, time and billing, and more, all delivered via the Internet. Read more...
1/12/2012
Five Tips for Starting Your Own Blog
If you're planning to launch a blog, you can take either of two routes to get there. One is to pay someone to start it for you. The other is to be a skinflint like me and do it yourself. The do-it-yourself route is surprisingly easy and can result in a blog every bit as professional as the toll route. Read more...
12/29/2011
2012: The Year of the 7 Inch Tablet?
If 2011 was the year tablet computing gained wide acceptance among legal professionals, will 2012 be the year we downsize our tablets to 7 inches? Read more...
12/20/2011
Can I Really Collaborate From Anywhere Without Paying a Fortune?
Yes! You can collaborate from anywhere there's an internet connection, if you have a laptop and some basic, free or low-cost software tools. Read more...
12/16/2011
A Simple Trick to Improve Your Search Rankings
Your browser knows what text to display there because of a hidden bit of text contained within the Web page called a title tag. It is part of the HTML coding of every Web page Read more...
12/14/2011
How to Become an ABA TECHSHOW Junkie
Why in the world, especially this day and age of reality television touting help for the impaired, would a person want to develop an addiction? Simple. It's an addiction that's good for you and your law practice. Read more...
12/7/2011
Don't Ask Me How Your Blog is Doing
Not long ago, the managing partner of a law firm asked me how I thought his firm's blog was doing. This struck me as an odd question. After all, wouldn't he know this better than I? So I put the question back to him. Read more...
12/5/2011
Email Marketing
My brother-in-law, who is smarter than me and has an MBA from a fancy school to prove it, has a dream. (Brace yourself, this is not one of those altruistic social good dreams, as I said, he has an MBA.) His dream is about living life funded by passive income. Read more...
11/30/2011
Evernote for Project Management
I've been an Evernote premium user for a couple of years now. I've loved Evernote since I first started messing around with it and month over month, year over year it just continues to improve.Read more...
11/28/2011
ABA TECHSHOW Has Changed the Way I Run My Office
I am a solo attorney in an office sharing arrangement with several other attorneys. When my secretary of many years left to join a big firm for lots of money, I was left in a lurch, "buying time" from the other attorneys in our group for their secretarial time, which always left me on the short end of time and availability in the office. At my first ABA TECHSHOW I discovered the technological answer to my problems – digital dictation! Read more...
10/19/2011
Creating Your Preferred Future with ABA TECHSHOW 2012
Since it began over 25 years ago, ABA TECHSHOW has always been about bringing lawyers and technology together. But now--more than ever-- it is about creating your preferred future. Read more...
5/9/2011
It's Already Time for ABA TECHSHOW 2012!
Believe it or not, planning for ABA TECHSHOW 2012 begins later this week. The ABA TECHSHOW Planning Board will meet for two full days to review the evaluations provided by 2011 attendees and begin the process of crafting the 2012 edition of our profession's premier technology conference.Read more...