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Glasscubes is a Great Collaboration Platform

January 27, 2010

My co-author, Carolyn Elefant, and I are in the midst of re-writing the last and final draft of our book about social media for lawyers, which will be published by the American Bar Association in just a few months.
When we began, we required an online platform that would allow us to collaborate and create the [...]

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How to Track Your Time With Ease… No Notes or Timers (Sponsored Post)

January 22, 2010

Dear Fellow Attorney:
You’re probably familiar with the painful time entry drill where we sit around for a while and think about the work we did the past few weeks. We look through our sent emails, our calendar, and we try to piece together our time in some concocted fashion so we can bill our clients. [...]

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Feedly, the RSS Feed Reader of Tomorrow

December 29, 2009

In a recent post, Randall recommended using Google Reader as your RSS feed reader. While Google Reader is a fine choice, I prefer Feedly. Feedly, recently named by ReadWriteWeb as one of the top 10 semantic web products of 2009, is a Firefox add-on that simplifies the process of sorting through and sharing information online.

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Clio and Time59 Announce iPhone Apps (Update: Rocket Matter, Too)

December 23, 2009

Clio was the first major player in the online practice management space to sync with Outlook, and now Clio and Time59 announce iPhone compatibility. Neither offer a true iPhone app; instead, both have iPhone-optimized sites (despite Clio’s confusing blog entry). This is a good thing, in my opinion. Gmail’s iPhone-optimized site is better than any [...]

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My ScanSnap Crashed; It Just Needed a Quick Fix

December 2, 2009

Regular Lawyerist readers know how much we love our Scan Snap s1500 scanners. I have been running Lawyerist from a paperless office for many months now.
Yesterday I went to scan a business expense reimbursement receipt and the ScanSnap Manager software crashed on me. I rebooted the computer, but it crashed again.
Thankfully, I was able to [...]

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Outlining Software for Law Students

November 26, 2009

Guest post by Sara Jaspers.
Outliner 4.0 by Storelaw
As a first-year law student, one of the most frustrating aspects of law school is how to structure class outlines in preparation for finals. Outline organization can be difficult juggling the notes taken on readings prior to class, notes taken during class, and consolidating and condensing the ultimate [...]

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Optimize Productivity on Your Mac

October 6, 2009

Macs are born awesome, but add some of these applications and watch your productivity soar.

Dropbox. An online harddrive, like an IDisk/MobileMe drive, but oh so much better. Dropbox is much, much faster than IDisk. You can install it on multiple computers and sync all of your files. It does a fantastic job of updating instantly [...]

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Clio Becomes the First Practice Management SaaS to Sync with Outlook

October 1, 2009

Finally! To celebrate its first birthday, Clio announced that Clio now syncs contacts, calendars, and tasks with Microsoft Outlook, so you can get offline access to your key information. Most importantly, as far as I am concerned, you should be able to sync with most smartphones through Outlook.
For me, this makes Clio the first truly [...]

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Anti-Virus, Now From Microsoft

September 30, 2009

For 19 years, Windows’ Achilles heel has been its vulnerability to viruses. In my opinion, this vulnerability is ridiculously overstated (especially by the competition), but it is a liability. Unfortunately, most anti-virus software is either awful, expensive, or both.
With this in mind, I am astonished that it took Microsoft so long to develop its own [...]

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Work From Home (or Anywhere Else) on Fridays

August 28, 2009

About a year ago, I started blocking off Friday on my calendar, calling it a “writing day.” Apart from the odd court date I have no control over, that block of time is inviolable. I use my Fridays to work from home (where I am right now), catch up on reading material, write briefs or [...]

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