Many Oklahoma lawyers have benefited from their membership in the Oklahoma Bar Association Law Office Management and Technology Section. The section has a great e-newsletter and other great projects. If you are not a member, please consider joining when you pay your bar dues. If you have already paid your dues for 2005 and would
January 2005
Alternative Billing for the Main Street Lawyer
I direct your attention to an article entitled "Alternative Billing for the ‘Main Street Lawyer’ " by Mark Robertson and myself. It was excerpted from the book Winning Alternatives to the Billable Hour, Strategies That Work by Mark Robertson and myself. Too often publications about alternative billing focus on the larger firms. This article talks…
Electronic Discovery Law Blog Launched
The Electronic Discovery Law Blog was recently launched. It is a project of the Document Analysis Technology Group of the law firm Preston Gates. Their first post linked to a nice article "Eight Simple Steps for Doing Effective E-Discovery" by e-discovery experts George Socha and Dennis Kennedy on another e-discovery blog, DiscoveryResources.
Great Electronics Reviews
Even though Christmas is over, you may still want to download Wired Magazine’s TEST reviews publication. It has reviews of all sorts of products and gadgets. If it plugs into something, there’s likely a review contained in its 117 pages. Download from here. When you get to the site, I suggest you right click…
Law Practice Today– and Tomorrow
One great free resource for law firm technology and management information is Law Practice Today, the e-zine published by the ABA Law Practice Management Section. It is normally published near the end of each month. I suggest you subscribe to the e-zine while visiting the site. That means you will receive e-mail notification when each…
Best Free Reference Web Sites 2004
Sabrina I. Pacifici posted a link to great resource on her blog, beSpacific
The American Library Association has posted the Best Free Reference Web Sites 2004.
The sixth annual list was complied by the Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS) of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) of ALA. Add this one to your favorites.
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A Nifty Tweak for MS Word
I’ll admit to being a proud WordPerfect user. But I know many of you readers now use MS Word. When I used Word, one of the things I didn’t like was the lack of the path and filename on the top of my display as is done with WordPerfect. I mentioned this to Oklahoma City…
The Mirra Personal Server 2.0
I was very intrigued when I read Brett Burney’s Review of the Mirra Personal Server 2.0 on LLRX.com. I didn’t get one of these for Christmas, so I may have to buy one myself for my home system. I think that many lawyers should be investigating external hard drives as a part of their disaster…
Technology, Stress and the Lawyer’s Quality of Life
Even though it was published over a year ago, I’m still very proud of my article "Technology, Stress and the Lawyer’s Quality of Life." The link is to the online version of the Oklahoma Bar Journal. It was republished in the Amercian Bar Association e-zine Law Practice Today. One of my friends, blogger Dennis…
Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips Blog Launched
This is the official announcement that my Law Practice Tips weblog (or blog, if you prefer) has been launched. My name is Jim Calloway and I guess now I’m officially a blogger. I’m also the Director of the Oklahoma Bar Association Management Assistance Program, where my job is to help Oklahoma lawyers to practice law …