OKNEWSBAR: A New Time- Savings News Service for You
By Jim Calloway, Director, OBA Management Assistance Program

So have you visited OKNEWSBar yet?

We designed this for you. The busy lawyer. The lawyer who doesn’t have enough time to surf the Internet. No training or technology skills required.

It only takes you two clicks to be reading today’s legal news. Or the latest appellate court opinions. Or great law practice management content. Just click, click.

There are four faces of OKNEWSBar. Add one to your favorites. Drag it to your links bar. Make it your home page.

Making it your home page is easy. Go to one of the four pages in your browser. Then click Tools, Internet Options, Use Current, OK. Start each day with a quick look at legal news or links to new court opinions. Leave court opinions as your home page for a few weeks while waiting on an opinion about to be issued. Or longer.

Finish a very stressful phone call and need a quick reset?

Click. Click. Read a new news story just posted this afternoon. Back to work.

Hear about a new U.S. Supreme Court opinion on the radio?

Click. Click. Check it out.

Client calls. Running a few minutes late for their appointment.

Click. Click. Read some new law practice management tips. Read four different pieces from four different authors. Make a note to talk to your partner about an idea for an improvement. Client’s here. That was four minutes well spent.

Add your ZIP code into the weather gadget and get customized weather information every time you return.

Add stocks of interest to the stock ticker. Get updates every time you return.

Time for a quick break?

Click. Click. Hmmm…. The weather outside is heating up and the stocks are, too. Back to work.

Been meaning to register for that great OBA CLE program?

Click. Click. Got‘er done.

End of the day. Waiting on the last document to sign?

Click. Click. Use those two minutes. OKNEWSBar is the name of a new online news service from the Oklahoma Bar Association. We hope that you will find it useful and that you will also mention it to your non-lawyer friends and associates.

OKNewsBar: A New Time- Savings News Service for You
Published 79 OBJ 857 (April 12, 2008)