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…

Sometimes there is no place to plug in your laptop and sometimes it is a hassle. (The power brink on the power cord for my Dell Precision laptop is as big and heavy as an actual brick.) One way to greatly improve the battery life on your laptop is to buy a new laptop. Obviously…

It is time for the Annual Big Ideas issue of Law Practice Magazine. My contribution for the issue is Pandemic-Proof Your Practice. Obviously, we cannot totally pandemic-proof our law practices, but this article has some ideas about additions or modifications to your disaster plan given the lessons we have all learned. The issue is packed…

The Internet Archive (https://archive.org/) is a massive storehouse of information. It bills itself as “a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites and more.” If you haven’t spent some time on the site, you may be surprised at what is available there. Many lawyers are familiar with the Internet Archive’s Wayback…

The majority of people never or rarely disinfect their phone, according to a February 2020 article from ZDNet, Dirty iPhone? Here’s one flu and coronavirus safeguard: Clean your device now. While I am certain that personal phone disinfecting has increased over the last several months, most of us could likely still do better. Whether it…

In the earlier days of computing, there were computer bulletin boards where hundreds of pieces of free software and other free utilities could be downloaded. But now security concerns make many suspicious of free software and most commercial packages have more features than most users take full advantage of in any event. But we still…

Many Gmail users have not taken the time to check out the G Suite Marketplace’s collection of Gmail add-ons. These are not Chrome browser extensions. They install directly into Gmail. You may find that adding the add-ons for a service you already use like DocuSign, Zoom, Dropbox, Trello or Evernote is a handy and powerful…

For our 150th Edition of the Digital Edge Podcast, we decided to have as our guests three lawyers who have decades of combined podcasting experience— Bob Ambrogi, Tom Mighell and Joe Patrice for A Legal Podcast about Legal Podcasting. We covered a wide range of topics from advice to lawyers considering creating their own podcast,…

For most lawyers, LinkedIn is the social media that they pay the least attention to maintaining. Last week I shared a tip: Spend an Hour Updating Your LinkedIn Profile (And Here’s How). So, this week, let’s take a look at How to Manage Your LinkedIn Privacy Settings. Because of its history as a employment advancement…