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There are many changes ahead for us in the future. But one set of changes that that I see impacting lawyers and law firms in the near future involves how we produce documents and bill for documents. There are some great tools that relatively few law firms are using now that I think will become…

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…

I've decided to create a new category today called Cool Tools. These tools will primarily be very useful and practical tools that can be used in a law practice, but I reserve the right to post about some tools just because they are cool. Even though I never do guest posts here, I'm going to…

I have a confession to make. Sometimes when I write articles for the Oklahoma Bar Journal, I'll just include a TinyURL for the citation. I don't think anyone has really noticed. After all, the point of citations is to find the original source. So if a link that can be typed into any web browser…

My friend and colleague, Reba Nance of the Colorado Bar, shared a well written tip with several of us. It illustrates how to quickly type and send an e-mail without ever leaving Microsoft Word. I was going to use it as a tip here, but another colleague, David Bilinsky, appropriated it to his blog first.

"Why is my email broken?" was the title of a blog post today by my friend, Ernie the Attorney. He begins, "Almost everyone I know who uses email extensively for work is overwhelmed by email….Some people declare 'email bankruptcy,' which means that they delete all the emails in their inbox and then start from scratch.