It’s that time of year with the kickoff of the holiday shopping season. And once again, Jim Calloway and Sharon Nelson bring you Tech Toys for the Holidays 2020 on their Digital Edge podcast. The Digital Edge hosts offer up their favorite practical and not-so practical tech toys this year with plenty of remote work…

This is a very nice treatment of this issue from my friend Nicole Black— Should you copy clients on emails to opposing counsel? Those who have read my musings on the subject know I think BCC should never been used for email, unless you are using that technique to file the emails within your system,…

Today’s tip is from Attorney@Work and Will Hornsby, who is an attorney focused on the professional responsibility of innovative and tech-based legal services. He served as staff counsel in the ABA’s Division for Legal Services for 30 years. His post Blogging, Posting and Ethics — Oh, My! is very useful information for any attorney who…

Dennis Garcia is an Assistant General Counsel for Microsoft. I have mentioned him before in my 2020 tips. He recently delivered a presentation to the Microsoft Legal Department Latinx employee community about strategies for remaining visible – and increasing visibility – in the workplace despite working in a remote environment. He shared his tips in…

Today’s tip is something completely different. We will discuss your vocabulary. Lawyers generally have a larger vocabulary than most because we work with both the written and the spoken word— and we had to add many new words to our vocabulary in law school. But when drafting, it is very good to know words can…

iPhone JD’s Jeff Richardson has just published 20 iPhone tips for lawyers in 2020. Did you know VIP notifications can be set to notify you if you receive an email from someone special? Or that you can take a picture while recording a video without interrupting it or that you can change Siri’s accent? Check…

Today our tip is for Oklahoma Bar Association members. Read Jim Calloway’s blog post Oklahoma Bar Virtual Annual Meeting Features Great, Free Content for OBA Members and then register for the meeting while you still can register this week. One bonus feature of the CLE at the meeting this year is if you have to…

This question sounds a bit clandestine. But in an age of mobile phone and spam phone calls, many of us are concerned about widely sharing our mobile phone numbers. Several months ago I wrote a column for the Oklahoma Bar Journal Text Messaging for Lawyers. In it, I mentioned ZipWhip, an enterprise texting service that…

Zoom became extraordinarily popular this year. When people were locked down and working from home, what was not to like about a free videoconferencing service that was simple and easy to use? We then got to hear a lot about Zoom’s shortcomings from bloggers and reviewers. I always suspected Microsoft was encouraging that line of…

Calendly now integrates with Teams, Zoom, and GoToMeeting and the integration is done through its basic free plan. See Calendly Announces Integration with Microsoft Teams, Makes All Video Conferencing Free For Users. If you don’t know what Calendly does, you haven’t been to a legal technology conference in a while, because “let me send you…