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Listen to Professor Richard Susskind’s Thoughts on Online Courts (May 19, 2020)

Professor Richard Susskind enjoys great prominence in the global legal community based on his fascinating books, articles and lectures on the future of law practice. But his latest book Online Courts and the Future of Justice couldn’t have been better timed as the COVID19 pandemic caused many courts to close to the public or limit…

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Shortcuts – The iOS Automation Tool You Didn’t Know You Needed (May 18, 2020)

Technology give us the ability to automate many things. But most iPhone and iPad-using lawyers have not looked at the many things that can be easily automated on their devices with Shortcuts. These tools that chain together various operations can be triggered by you, often with Siri, or can be set to happened automatically, such…

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Review the Ethical Challenges of Working Remotely (May 15, 2020)

Most lawyers have previously worked from home on occasion. Sometimes getting away from the office distractions while researching and drafting an important brief was the best plan for focusing. As we know, the last couple of months, where many lawyers worked from home almost exclusively, was an entirely different “work from home” situation. The Pennsylvania…

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Untruthful Answers to Your Data Security Questions May Be the Best (May 14, 2020)

Of course, lawyers are supposed to always tell the truth! But we got you to click and read this important security tip, didn’t we? Your mother’s maiden name can likely be located with a little online research. Therefore, using your mother’s maiden name as your password recovery security question is dumb! That used to be…

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The Future of Digital Note Taking and Other iPad & iPhone Tips (May 13, 2020)

One of the promises of smart phones and tablets was to always have something handy to take notes that you couldn’t lose. Early personal digital assistants included a stylus for notetaking, which was easy to lose. The Notes app installed on iOS devices by default is painfully basic. Brett Burney had Jeff Richardson as a…

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Today’s Times Demonstrate That Lawyers Must Accept Electronic Payments (May 12, 2020)

“Do you accept credit cards?”, was a question that a client had to ask a law firm years ago because not every law firm did. Lawyers and law firms that were unable to process electronic payments were often challenged during the last two months. We heard tales of woe of lawyers in other states barred…

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Ten Tech Tips for Productivity (and Important Zoom Update) (May 11, 2020)

Everyone loves a good tech tip, especially one that can be implemented quickly. My daily tip today was going to be about the release of Zoom 5.0 and how the upgrading will enable GCM Encryption.(If you don’t upgrade by May 30, you not only won’t have the protection of encryption, but you will be locked…

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Tips for Working from Home Securely (May 8, 2020)

Many lawyers forced to work from home had done so many times and had the tools in place to do so. Of course, the crisis and other closures gave working from home a different feel. But other lawyers didn’t have the infrastructure or experience and had to learn some things on the fly. They had…

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Oklahoma Lawyers Should Sign Up For a Free Online Listing at OklahomaFindaLawyer.com (May 7, 2020)

People shopping online for all sorts of things, including legal services, has been a growing trend for some time. But it has certainly accelerated recently. The Oklahoma Bar provides a free service for those who are searching for Oklahoma-licensed lawyers at www.OklahomaFindaLAwyer.com . Lawyers are automatically listed in their home county and can designate up…

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Lawyers Providing Limited Scope Legal Services Likely to Increase in Oklahoma (May 6, 2020)

Oklahoma has a district court rule outlining how a lawyer can deliver limited scope legal services. Essentially our rule allows lawyers to prepare court documents for clients who will then attend a court hearing or obtain a judge’s approval on an order. Lawyers disclose their drafting assistance to the court with a brief written statement….

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