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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.

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…

Most lawyers are all about business and wouldn't bother to take the time to insert photos along with the other contact information in their Outlook Contacts. Some, like me, might insert a few photos of loved ones into a very few contacts.

But recently I have been inserting more photos into my Outlook Contacts to…

I'm a PMA, which stands for Practice Management Advisor. Many state bar associations and law societies have one (or more) full time person on staff to help members with practice management and technology issues. You can see if your bar association has this type of program by visiting www.abanet.org/practicemanagementadvisors. It seems that the PMA's…

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…

Last week ABA TECHSHOW 2010 was held. Although I've never met an ABA TECHSHOW I didn't like, this one was outstanding and special. Congratulations to Debbie Foster and the rest of the TS planning board. Congratulations are due as well to the attendees, vendors and rest of the ABA TECHSHOW community. In a time when…

"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.

Every now and then you get backed up. In my world right now, it is having too many things you would like to blog about when I have three or four major papers due in the next few days. My friend Dennis Kennedy dealt with that problem by starting a Dennis Kennedy Microblog. Well…