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The Most Critical Part of Your Law Firm
For every kind of law practice, the attorneys (and the others who work in the firm) are the most critical parts. We are all under a lot of stress today. But the lawyer’s typical reaction to business challenges is to work harder and to put in longer hours, which may not be the best solution...
Highlights From the ABA TECHSHOW 2020
By Jim Calloway ABA TECHSHOW 2020 was held in Chicago during the final few chilly days of February. Interesting things are happening in the legal technology field, and we wanted to share a few of the highlights. One can often get a good sense of what’s hot in legal technology by roaming the large expo...
Upgrade Your Work-From-Home Security
Working from home is our new reality. Make sure your technology is secure and you have purchased and installed firewall and antivirus tools. You also need to be using a VPN (Virtual Private Network) and if you aren’t, that is your urgent next tech upgrade task. Just go here, here and here to do your...
Assisting Clients Remotely Who Are Not Tech-Savvy
Working remotely today requires using online resources and many other modern technology tools. If you have clients who may not be comfortable with or even know of some technology tools, ABA TECHSHOW has generously shared a paper for download: Loving the Luddites: Serving Tech-adverse Clients. This covers many ways you can help the “low tech”...
The Burneys: Bears & Boundaries & Conference Calls
Many lawyers are adjusting to working at home with family members also trapped at home. It is different from working on something important at home to avoid distractions when the kids are in school. Ace legal technology consultant Brett Burney invited his wife, Stephanie, to join for this great video Bears and Boundaries and Conference...
Home without a scanner? There’s an app for that.
Smartphone scanner apps have come a long way. They can convert your picture of a document to a PDF file and many allow you to easily combine several pictures into one PDF document. Lawyers like free apps. So let’s begin with Adobe’s Scan Digital PDF Scanner, which works with either Android or iOS phones. It’s...
Videoconferencing Improves Client Relations in Quarantine
Quick Tip – Sure we are used to talking on the phone, but video conferencing is exploding now for obvious reasons. There is no doubt that isolated people can benefit from seeing another on a video conference as they talk. Zoom (https://zoom.us/) has emerged as the most popular solution. This is primarily because it is...
Become a Better Lawyer at the OBA 2020 Solo & Small Firm Conference
By Jim Calloway Solo & Small Firm Conference The Choctaw Casino Resort in Durant is the location for the 2020 OBA Solo & Small Firm Conference scheduled for June 18-20. There are many educational sessions to help you become a better lawyer. Our special guests include nationally recognized experts on law office technology and cybersecurity...
The Risks of Technology Incompetence
By Jim Calloway Some 38 states have adopted the “duty of technology competence” either by modifying a comment to their rule of professional conduct to provide that lawyer competency includes understanding “the benefits and risks associated with relevant technology” or adopting a formal ethics opinion. Many readers will have read dozens of blog posts, tweets...
Generational Changes in Communication Styles
By Jim Calloway Technology advances have led to many changes in society. Between text messages, emails and social media, today most of us transmit many digital messages each day and we purchase fewer postage stamps for our personal use. There are noteworthy generational changes in many areas. We differentiate the various generations with words (e.g., Baby Boomers) and...