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…

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…

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…

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”…

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…

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…

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…