Ellen Freedman is the practice management advisor for the Pennsylvania Bar. Most PMA’s are employees of their various bars, but Ellen provides her services via contract and has a private consulting services as well. Ellen is an accomplished consultant, writer, speaker, trainer and a real character as well. Ellen has several web publications. Many of
April 2007
The Rise and Fall of the Dictation Tape
"The Rise and Fall of the Dictation Tape" is my article in the Oklahoma Bar Journal this month. If you do a lot of dictation, this article may be very useful for you. It is amazing how quickly tape dictation units are being phased out of law firms in favor of digital dictation. Even if…
How do you stay organized?
I just received my copy of the ABA eReport. One interesting feature this week was the regular Answers of the Week which featured responses from lawyers about best tips for getting and staying organized. Some answers are very useful and others were very entertaining. (One person advocates using grocery bags for organization.) You can read…
Site of the Week: Trial Lawyer Resource Center
It seems to me that one of the trends we will see in legal blogging is an emergence of group blogs. After all, really significant well thought-out blog posts can take some time to craft and a lot of really great lawyers don’t have a lot of free time on their hands. Combining efforts can…
Librarians Show Off Cool Gadgets
Like many others, I love a program about tech-related gadgets. Too bad none of us can afford all of the gadgets we want. Barbara Fullerton, Manager, Librarian Relations, 10-K Wizard, Sabrina Pacifici, Editor & Publisher, LLRX.com and beSpacific.com and Aaron Schmidt, Director, North Plains Public Library, gave their annual presentation on gadgets at the Computers…
What Lies Beneath: Native Format Production and Discovery of Metadata in Federal Court
We have many great scholarly articles published in the Oklahoma Bar Journal. But they are all generally outside of the subject matter of this weblog. Imagine my surprise to find tucked into the Law Day theme issue of the Bar Journal, the article "What Lies Beneath: Native Format Production and Discovery of Metadata in …
A Post About the New Postal Rate Increase that Every Small Firm Lawyer Should Read
If you have a law office administrator, they are probably all over the upcoming postal rate increases. But if you are a small firm lawyer without a staff person who keeps track of such things, you simply have to read Are You Ready for the New Postal Regulations and a Whopping Increase in Costs? by…
Site of the Week: Nerino Petro’s Compujurist.com
Nerino Petro is the practice management advisor for the Wisconsin Bar Association. Before that, he ran two businesses, a law practice and a technology support firm for the legal professional. So he has a lot of practical knowledge of how law firm information technology infrastructure should work. Luckily for all of us, even though he…
Ten Tips Leading to Efficient and Effective eDiscovery for the Small Law Firm
I just received my copy of the ABA GPSOLO’s Technology eReport. In my continuing effort to pass along e-discovery information of use to mid-sized and smaller law firms, I refer you you to Ten Tips Leading to Efficient and Effective eDiscovery for the Small Law Firm. It is brief and written by some very…
Signing Adobe Documents
With e-filing many lawyers are now "signing" pleadings without physically signing them. We’re going to see more of that in the future. So Adobe’s Rick Borstein has a nice post on how to build a transparent signature stamp in Adobe Acrobat, The signature with transparent background is much more appealing on a document than…