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Stay Offline Early and Late

February 15, 2010

I am a big proponent of smartphones and keeping your office mobile so you can work when you are not at work. Being mobile, however, does not mean you need to be checking email at 6AM when you get up, or 10PM when you go to sleep.

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Why You Need a Mobile, Paperless Office

February 7, 2010

Admittedly, as long as you can afford it, having an office is a must. But I also think that having a mobile, paperless, office makes life a lot easier.
Today, for example, I needed to accompany a family member to some unexpected medical appointments. There was no freaking out because my entire practice is on my [...]

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Satisfy Your CLE Requirement On the Go

December 19, 2009

Thomson Reuters has just unveiled a free app for the iPhone that lets lawyers complete CLE courses on their iPhone or iPod Touch.
Over 2,000 courses are available for download.

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Locate Places to Work on the Go

November 20, 2009

Even if you have a mobile office, sometimes you need a place to work—use WorkSnug to solve that problem.
WorkSnug is an app for the iPhone that provides both a 3D visualization and Google Maps view of suitable places to work that are within a close proximity. Granted, if you have an iPhone (and use the [...]

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The Day the Earth Stood Still (My iPhone Died)

October 31, 2009

Having your office in your pocket is awesome—except when your office shuts down and you cannot get in.
If you are new to the blog, please take a minute to check out my previous posts on the iPhone, and how I can essentially run my entire office through it.

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To Smartphone, or Not to Smartphone

September 9, 2009

While I do like to be able to check my e-mail whenever I want, smartphones have their downside. It turns out I do not actually like to be reachable and working all the time. I want to work when I work, and not work when I am not working.
I shut off e-mail on my Blackberry [...]

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Android is looking good

May 29, 2008

Linux is pretty.

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Final steps to a truly mobile law office

April 23, 2008

I am just a couple of baby steps from being able to take my entire office with me (well, not the furniture) wherever I go. My files are all digitized and stored (encrypted) on my laptop (and backed up daily), I send and receive faxes electronically, and I use Skype so that I can pick [...]

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Trip report: taking my law office with me to Europe

May 29, 2007

As you may remember, I recently took off for Europe with nothing but a USB drive and my Blackberry, audaciously leaving my laptop running UltraVNC on my desk at home. Fortunately nobody took that as an invitation to ransack my home. Here is how my portable law office experiment all panned out.
Phone
I did bring along [...]

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Gone mobile: first post from my new Blackberry

March 21, 2007

It is somewhat ironic, I suppose, that a geek such as I should be so late to the game on this, but I just got my first PDA/mobile phone. Quite exciting. I did use a Palm for a while, but I never liked the way it synced my appointments.
This, on the other hand, is far [...]

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