OBA Management Assistance Program
(Originally published Oklahoma Bar Journal March 7, 1998 – Vol. 69; No. 10. Reprinted with permission.)
Note: I’m going to spend the next few days republishing some posts and articles that are difficult to locate and still have some value. I note that this article, originally published
Maybe it was a project update, a client request, or a feedback form. You probably thought, “I’ll get back to this later,” and moved on to other tasks. But then, hours or days later
Decades ago, I assumed that technology would soon advance to the point where automated document assembly would be fully incorporated in most law offices across the country. While great strides have been made in law office technology tools, and tools for automatically generating documents are much improved over what was available decades previously, many law
I would imagine most lawyers by now have a Gmail account, although many do not use it for their professional email account. Catherine Reach, Director, North Carolina Bar Association Center for 
Practice Management recently published Gmail Tricks You Can Use. There are some handy tips included in this post.
My Gmail tip is one
Every year we attend ABA TECHSHOW and share our thoughts about the conference. But since we wait for the Oklahoma Bar Journal print deadline, our review is published later than all the other bloggers. So while there have now been many reviews of ABA TECHSHOW 2003 written by now, including by well-known attendees like Bob
Format Painter is a useful tool. This YouTube video is just over two minutes in length. If you don’t know how to use Format Painter, it is worth your time to watch it.
Our new Digital Edge podcast, The Ten Most Popular Office 365 Tips For Lawyers, is really quite special. I can almost guarantee you will learn at least one thing that you will immediately start to use. Our guest is Danielle DavisRoe, who is a senior consultant at Affinity Consulting Group. She has co-authored legal-specific
As you likely know, Microsoft 365 provides great speech recognition built right into Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and OneNote. You just click on the microphone icon labeled Dictate and begin your dictation.
But to dictate into other applications on your computer, there are other built-in options.
It’s simple on a PC, just use the Windows key
Many lawyers use Gmail and Google Docs. I always suggest that if lawyers are going to use Gmail for client matters, they upgrade to the paid business version of the service for account controls and 
improved security. That business class service is Google Workplace (formerly GSuite, Google for Business, et al.) But there is
One of the more important tasks for lawyers is proofreading. It also can be among the most tedious. We endeavor to produce perfect legal documents. Reading a complex document for the third or fourth time can be tiring.
We have all also learned that when proofreading a document you authored, there are times you can
