ABA TECHSHOW 2011 closed with a large crowd in attendance for 60 Sites in 60 Minutes. Jim Calloway and Sharon Nelson joined colleagues ABA TECHSHOW 2010 chair Paul Unger and TECHSHOW planning board member Erik Mazzone for this lively presentation. Jim and Sharon just couldn’t get enough of talking about interesting and fun websites for
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Deep Thoughts on the Future of Law Practice
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There was a great symposium in recent days on the future of law practice. Didn't you get your invitation? Well, that is because it just happened online without apparent advance planning or coordination. While I was attending my son's high school basketball banquet last night, Jordan Furlong was writing the blog post I intended to write about…
The most important thing in your office
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Sometimes it is easy to forget that the most important thing in your office is you! (Well, you and all the other living, breathing people in your workplace.) Hopefully this "thing" is also important to others outside of work as well.
So your attention is directed to a pair of really nice blog posts.
A…
The Dark Side of Technology
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I'm one of those who believes that almost every lawyer in private practice should have a smart phone. There are simply too many time-saving tools and techniques available via a smart phone that can be useful to the time-challenged lawyer. But I'm not unmindful of the dangers of overuse of smart phones and other technology.
Reviewing 2010 Should Make Lawyers Think About the Future
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While doing my annual review of the year in law office management and technology, my focus kept returning to the numerous predictions of challenging change ahead for lawyers. Some of these trends are already apparent and others are coming into focus. For my column in the December 2010 Oklahoma Bar Journal, I decided to…
Tech Toys for the Holidays featured on Digital Edge Podcast
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The 37th edition of the Digital Edge: Lawyers and Technology podcast features Tech Toys for the Holidays, our annual roundup of interesting, wild and off-beat technology tools and toys that might interest the practicing lawyer, or at least someone on his or her shopping list. From not-so-boring surge protectors to the ultimate in headphones to the…
A Traditionalist’s Response to Virtual Law Practices
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Yesterday I did a blog post Virtual Law Offices are Becoming a Real-World Alternative that outlined the case for virtual law practices. The same day, Sharon Nelson and John W. Simek posted an article called The Virtual Lawyer Stampede that is worthwhile reading as well. But today I want to point you to an article…
Virtual Law Offices are Becoming a Real-World Alternative
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Virtual law practices (or virtual law offices) might mean different things to different people. For today's discussion, I am talking about a lawyer who decides to practice without a physical office by using the Internet to attract and serve clients. I know a traditional law firm might decide to add a virtual practice component and…
Your Next Cell Phone Should be More than Just a Phone
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You must have been living in cave with no media connections the last few months if you didn't know that the new crop of smart phones have some impressive features. At the beginning of the year when I became eligible to upgrade to an iPhone, I jumped to buy the iPhone 3GS; even though I…
Remembering What We Truly Do as Lawyers
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"Remembering What We Truly Do as Lawyers" is the title of a great piece by Daniel M. Mills, the practice management advisor for the D.C. Bar. Dan goes a great job of noting how the current hard times interplay with our traditional role as trusted advisor.