efficiency

Send Certified Mail from Your Computer

December 23, 2009

Now you can print certified mail labels from your desktop, which can make you more productive by eliminating trips to the post office. Especially if you live in Minnesota, avoiding trips to the post office in the winter is a good thing.

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Scheduling Made Simple

November 30, 2009

Whether you are scheduling an appointment with a client, a networking group meeting, a trial strategy conference with an associate, or a weekly review with your assistant, the combination of schedule changes, telephone tag, and endless emails makes scheduling any meeting almost impossible. More time is wasted scheduling most meetings than is actually spent in [...]

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Learn to Type

November 23, 2009

The ability to type is one of the greatest barriers to modern communication. If you have to hunt-and-peck, even l-a-w-y-e-r-i-s-t-.-c-o-m becomes a chore. I know there are lawyers out there who type 25-page briefs two fingers at a time, but I cannot imagine how those lawyers justify their bills to their clients.

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Keyboard shortcuts make life easier in Gmail, everything else

February 27, 2009

Sure, the mouse is intuitive. See, point, click. No memorization required. But it also requires me to constantly move my hand back and forth between the mouse and keyboard. Whenever possible, I prefer to learn keyboard shortcuts to cut down on that movement.
Most software has keyboard shortcuts. Nearly everyone is familiar with the basics: ctrl+s [...]

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Three (four, really) good reasons to go paperless

June 30, 2008

In the newest Lawyerist video, I describe four reasons to create a paperless law office:

Three (four, really) good reasons to go paperless from Sam Glover on Vimeo.

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Merlin Mann (and me) on Inbox Zero and other productivity issues

June 18, 2008

I sat on a panel with productivity guru Merlin Mann today. We talked about a range of issues, from information overload to the paperless law office to Getting Things Done and the Franklin-Covey method, all with reference to the life of lawyers.
If you are not familiar with Merlin Mann, check out the video below, “Inbox [...]

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Why aren’t more solo practitioners using technology?

March 15, 2007

I wonder this quite a bit. Technology is one of the greatest tools available to the modern solo practitioner, and a great leveler. It gives one person the same capabilities as a huge law firm. And even aside from the advantages for productivity and efficiency, technology allows anyone to market effectively and directly to a [...]

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