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...

From today’s Attorney@Work, Beware the Four Most Dangerous Outlook Features, written by Deborah Savadra. I’ve cited both sources for tips earlier this year. I have to note that if I had been asked to guess the most dangerous outlook features, I would have likely come up with the same four. This is a quick and...

Lawyers often must handle emotionally taxing matters. Sexual assault and/or child sexual abuse litigation are challenging for the lawyer because the subject matter is often the trauma the client has suffered. Trauma-Informed legal advocacy by Texas lawyer Cornelia Brandfield-Harvey draws on her years of experience in this area to share some wisdom. Her advice is...

The ABA 2020 Legal Technology Survey Report is out and the ABA has published the statistics related to Technology Basics and Security. Sharon Nelson, President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc., breaks down the results in her post Cybersecurity Stats are in for the ABA’s 2020 Legal Technology Survey Report. The responses indicate there are still improvements...

To be honest, one of the last things I’d ever want to write a law practice technology tip about is Jeffery Epstein’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell’s deposition. But after a federal court released its redacted copy of her 2016 depositions, the cyber sleuths went to work. Lawyers, if you ever relied on redaction of a deposition...