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Effective immediately, Oklahoma Bar Association members have access to a free legal research tool. We are very excited about providing free legal research to our members as a member benefit. Our provider is FastCase.com. OBA Members need to log in through www.okbar.org using their Bar ID number and PIN Number (just like you use…

As a young lawyer, one of my early "finds" was the Directory of Oklahoma. The book was later renamed the Oklahoma Almanac. This thick book was published every other year by the Oklahoma Department of Libraries. It contains a wealth of information about our state, local government, geography and such. I always loved having…

I wanted to point out a recent article that was inspired by periodic postings on Solosez and other tech related lists. Certain topics (e.g. Word vs. WordPerfect superiority) seem to crop up again and again. One of these is the full backup vs. data backup only debate. You can’t post to a tech list using

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At our recent OBA Annual Meeting, I did a program called "Cutting-Edge Technology for the Domestic Lawyer." I told the participants I would upload the PowerPoint and am doing so here in PDF format. This wasn’t designed to be free-standing without my commentary, but I’d immodestly suggest that it is still worth a download if…

You can now receive Oklahoma appellate court opinions and Oklahoma Attorney General opinions via RSS newsfeeds at no charge. I believe Oklahoma is the third state to do this, after West Virginia and Louisiana. You may get more information and see the various RSS subscription options here: http://www.oscn.net/Applications/OSCN/rss.asp . I am proud to note that…

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…

More details about the Oklahoma Electronic Discovery Summit (and enrollment information) are now available here. I did a prior blog post about some of the highlights here. I’m sure we will have a large number of litigators present, but electronic discovery awareness and understanding is not just for litigators.  Corporate …

June 23-25 is the date for the annual OBA Solo and Small Firm Conference. The Early Bird registration deadline is June 1 and then the price goes up, with a possibility that the conference will fill and close registration. There’s a lot of information available on the SSF Conference site, including my story about…