Before I ever went to work for a bar association, I was involved with three types of bar activities: 1) My local hometown bar association, The Cleveland County Bar; 2) The Oklahoma Bar Family Law Section and 3) The Oklahoma Bar Association Annual Meeting, which takes place this week. (Info here.) I think beginning lawyers
October 2005
Site of the Week: One Look Reverse Dictionary
Here’s a free site with an interesting service. We know how "reverse" databases operate. In an online reverse phone directory, you type in the number to locate the name of the individual who owns the number. (For e.g. See Anywho.com reverse lookup.) But a reverse lookup dictionary is a more complex concept. Try the…
Today’s Lesson: Bookmarklets
Here’s an article I found on LifeHacker entitled Ten "Must Have " Bookmarklets. Bookmarklets are small bits of javascript that you can save in your Favorites. But instead of just taking your browser to a favorite Web page, they can perform other actions. If you don’t get bookmarklets, let me give you an example…
Site of the Week – Excited Utterances
Joy London was an early blogger. Her archives on her Excited Utterances blog go back to mid-2002, before many of you had even heard of blogs. Excited Utterances focuses on knowledge management ("KM") within law firms. KM was the big buzz in corporate circles a few years back and still is an important subject for…
Your Color Printer Turns Government Snitch
It sounds bizarre, but did you know that your color printer has likely been modified to provide information about your use of it to law enforcement? Yes, I know. I couldn’t believe it either.
In many color printers, there are tiny almost-invisible hidden yellow dots generated on each page which can be decoded to reveal…
One Law Office to Go, Please
"One Law Office to Go, Please" is the title of my column for the Oklahoma Bar Journal this month. It covers the very basics of how a law office can be made mobile with current technology. I’d like to expand it into something more lengthy sometime, but time marches on and the Oklahoma…
Disasters Past, Present and Future
Disasters come in all shapes and sizes. A parent dying and leaving small children is an unmitigated disaster to the family. As far as they are concerned, it is of more significance to them than the Gulf Coast hurricanes. The family disaster is worse if the deceased was the family breadwinner without adequate life insurance…
Site of the Week: Jurist
It started out as a Website catering mainly to the interests of the legal academic community. Then, with vision and the hard work of a dedicated group of law student volunteer citizen journalists and editors, it grew into a great legal news Website. Now Jurist, from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, is…
Just Too Busy
Here are a few words of wisdom on "Why Are We So Busy?" by Robert Harris. These points are very brief so you do have time to read them.
Louisiana and Mississippi Disaster Recovery Seminars
Well, folks I am really excited to be a part of a law office management and technology team going to do some free CLE and consulting with lawyers on how to rebuild their practices affected by Hurricane Katrina.
The program is called Rebuilding Your Practice After Disaster Strikes. It will be presented twice. First…