Many law firms drafted preservation letters some years ago as firms were grappling with the challenges of electronic discovery and some of those forms could use an update. Electronic discovery expert Craig Ball has shared his New Exemplar Preservation Letter with the legal community. He notes that it should not be considered the perfect preservation...

Many people love to listen to music while they work and believe the practice provides many benefits. In The Science of Music and Productivity on the Zapier blog, it is noted that “YouTube videos offer music for ‘super intelligence’ and apps claim they ‘unlock music's potential to influence cognitive states’ ” and the author then...

Most office workers got a crash course in working from home in April 2020. It appears there is more working from home in our future since anyone who wakes up with cold or flu systems then should not report into the office. Some firms may schedule a work-from-home day each week when the cleaning crew...

Most law firm networks rely on hard-wired network connections for the office. But a few use WiFi because of building layout and construction issues. Home WiFi networks are more common and were often strained during the spring of 2020 as different family members tried to simultaneously work from home and attend school from home. Many...

One of the worst imaginable disasters for a law firm is losing massive amounts of client data or law firm business records without a backup. This is why we advise multiple backup options for lawyers, one done automatically during the day and periodic saving to external media. But for an individual, the worst imaginable data...

A few weeks ago, a webinar, “Litigation, ADR, ODR — The Next Normal?”, was hosted by the College of Law Practice Management. I’m proud to be a Fellow of CoLPM and was even prouder that they made this excellent webinar available to everyone. The recording of the complete webinar is also available at the link...

Many people are now looking for lawyers who provide online appointments. How would someone know if your law firm offers those? Google has quietly released a new feature (an attribute) that allows lawyers to add online appointment availability to your Google My Business listing. It is a quick process if you have previously set up...

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Planning in pandemic times can seem like the ultimate oxymoron. So much is uncertain. Many solo and small firm lawyers are specially threatened by current events because their client base consists primarily of middle-class individuals and/or small businesses. The fates of many small businesses still hang in the balance and many who considered themselves middle-class...

Back in the early days of law office technology, most managing partners hated buying replacement computers. They had already bought one computer for that user and it still worked, right? But, as lawyers began personally using computers, dealing with the spinning hourglass, the involuntary rebooting and other “features” of a computer well past its optimal...