At this point between clients who are laid-off, clients whose businesses have closed and courthouses closed except for emergencies and other limited services, most Oklahoma lawyers and law firms are looking at significantly reduced revenues for the near future. This is an appropriate week to do some budgeting and short-term financial forecasting to determine what…

If you use Microsoft Word, you have almost certainly struggled with Word formatting issues, especially using Word documents created by others and edited by many people. Pro Tip— If you are struggling for more than a few minutes with formatting, it is usually best just to clear out the old formatting and then properly format…

Lawyers are not considered first responders. But Oklahoma Free Legal Answers allows us to help those less fortunate while practicing social distancing. Lawyers anonymously answer questions submitted by lower-income Oklahomans in an online message board setting. Volunteers can only volunteer to answer questions in substantive areas where they know the answers with little research. Go…

Safari on the iOS devices leaves a lot of extra tabs open. You know how extra tabs slow down the browser on computers. Closing unnecessary tabs on your phone’s browser is a good idea too, especially if you have 400 or 500 tabs open. So open Safari and instead of tapping on the Tabs icon…

Rocket Matter CEO Larry Port has put together a stellar cast of legal technology experts to give an online two-day conference this week. The registration only costs $25. All registration fees will be donated directly to three charities: United Way’s COVID-19 Fund, Pro Bono Net, and Feeding America, a charity network of more than 200…

Going from two monitors at work to one at home? It is certainly an adjustment. But the Windows key has something to assist you may have known about long ago and forgotten. The Windows key is the one with a symbol of Windows on it. (Chromebooks and Apple computers have no Windows key.) Holding down…

Did the law office have a challenge splitting the postage meter between four different stay-at-home offices? Or did you just forget it entirely? Is the one person doing all of the physical mailings because they have supplies or they are checking back into the office to check mail when that workload could be better divided?…

Immediately after the Coronavirus Emergency Aid Package signing, emails promoting services to get that money faster began. The bill presented a new chance to scam. Scammers and black hat hackers are criminals. So, of course, they would not hesitate to prey on someone in today’s desperate situation. They often target the elderly. Maybe you should…

Lawyers may find themselves having some downtime due to the crisis. Start making a list of the projects to improve your practice that you may have been putting off due to the press of business before. Selecting and setting up a password manager is one of those important projects. You want to make sure you…

Soon after Zoom exploded into the mainstream for videoconferences during home sheltering, a large number of online pieces criticizing Zoom followed. Challenges included meetings being “Zoombombed” with disgusting content to a new automated Zoom meeting discovery tool dubbed “zWarDial,” which is used to locate unprotected meetings. For Zoom meetings to be protected from outside interference…