In a paperless practice, screen size is critical. Don’t skimp on the screen real estate. You have two choices: jumbo monitors or multi-monitor setups. I’ve opted for the jumbo monitor. Here’s why:
Multi-monitors are great for segregating programs to different screens. They look very cool. But if you are reading this, you are an attorney, not a day-trader. You will spend the majority of your time at your computer doing two things: reading and writing. Most of what you do falls in one of those two categories. And for those purposes, jumbo monitors excel. Keep Reading ⇒
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After I got bored playing Angry Birds on my Christmas-gift-to-myself Android tablet, I had to get down to business. After all, I didn’t drop over $400 to play games. I bought it so I could extract some productivity from my daily bus commute and my lunch hour.
The biggest productivity challenge was getting my Microsoft Outlook data synchronized. I needed away-from-Office access to my to-do list, contacts, and calendar. I’d had previous experience with PDA-to-PC sync, so I knew how dreadful such apps can be. The few good ones were usually pricey.
The good news is, I found something that (mostly) fits the bill. The bad news is that this is no $2.99 app. But, really, should it be?
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The following is an excerpt from Cloud Computing for Lawyers, Chapter 7, “Cloud Computing Applications for Your Law Practice.”
General Cloud Computing Services vs. Law Practice Specific
There is no shortage of cloud-computing services specifically tailored for the practice of law. The most obvious example of cloud-based legal software is the law practice management suite. This type of platform provides lawyers with an assortment of tools designed to make running a law firm more efficient, ranging from case and matter management, time tracking, billing and reporting, and client contact management. However, unlike some cloud-computing applications not specifically aimed toward lawyers, most legal cloud-computing services are not free. Most are subscription-based services that require you to pay a monthly fee for continued access to the service.
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Total Attorneys launched its practice management software with a $1/month price tag. The obvious reason why was TA’s add-ons, which was how Total Attorneys planned to make its money.
The problem, from my perspective anyway, was that this turned the practice management software into a sales funnel. I didn’t see how Total Attorneys would be motivated to go up against software with a more “serious” price tag, like Clio, MyCase, and Rocket Matter.
Maybe I was right.
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On the one hand, it’s nice that PDF documents are basically just electronic versions of paper documents. It makes it easier for non-techie people to wrap their heads around paperless documents. On the other hand, if you cannot get past that simple analogy, you aren’t taking advantage of the medium.
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Never, I mean ever, send a Word file as “correspondence.” In a paperless office a word processing file is not a document. PDFs are documents. Word files are drafts. And sending a draft that includes your digital letterhead and signature to anyone is just plain stupid. Here’s why:
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LexThink.1′s emcee, Matt Homann, just put up all of the 6-minute presentations from this year’s LexThink.1. I’ve updated my post on LexThink.1 with all the videos. If you weren’t there, it’s worth checking them out.
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I launched my first law blog in 2005 and continue to blog to this day. Along the way I’ve discovered a number of web-based content curation and blogging tools that I’ve found to be invaluable time savers. In this post, I’m going to share my top 5 favorite blogging tools with you.
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