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This month in the Oklahoma Bar Journal, my column is Speech Tools for Lawyers in 2011. I covered many ways that lawyers can use their computers and their smart phones to prepare documents and do other tasks with their voices working with their computers and smart phones. I have tried to keep up in this…

Let's discuss a really powerful free tool that you may not yet be using. I hope this blog post will convince you that you need to set up a free online document repository.

I have been finding many interesting uses for Dropbox and have encouraged others to sign up. Dropbox offers 2 GB of…

The November 2010 Oklahoma Bar Journal has a Law Office Management and Technology theme and we're happy to share them with you whether you are a member of the Oklahoma Bar Association or not. So pass along this link to someone you think might be interested and settle in for a lengthy session if you…

No one is more surprised than me that I am featuring Windows 7 as a cool tool. I hated the early versions of Vista with a passion and still don't like it. I've always tended to not care about operating systems. I just wanted an OS to run my applications. But Windows 7 delivers on…

Many readers are familiar with New Orleans lawyer Ernest Svenson, aka Ernie the Attorney, and his well-known blog. I really like his 10 Tech Rules to Guide Users. (The paper is linked from his post.) It barely mentions specific products at all, but just covers concepts and attitude. I think you will enjoy and…

I read a couple of great articles on Law Technology News online today. One was titled Once and Again Solo. In it, Marc Dobin, a lawyer from Jupiter, Florida told his story of setting up a solo practice once and then doing it again a few years later with a focus on good, low…

I have just had the Samson Go Mic USB Microphone for a couple of weeks, but I like it a lot. It works for speech recognition as well as recording my podcast. It is inexpensive and compact. But before I got around to reviewing it, Diane L. Ebersole, PMRC Advisor for the State Bar of…

Recently I was in a hotel room checking something online with my laptop when my teenaged son noted the unfairness of the situation. We had two laptops (one PC and one Mac) plus an iTouch and iPad in the room. (Yes, I know that sounds like Geek Family Vacation!) But because the hotel charged for in-room Internet…

Well, if your office is like most law offices, you still have the trusty fax machine and a business phone line dedicated to your fax number. You may not be motivated to change that at the moment, but I hope to make you reconsider that with a few links and a few observations. Failing that, I want…