We had a great time at the OBA Tech Fair this week. Thanks to Tom Mighell, Debbie Foster and Adriana Linares for taking the time to come teach our members. I have gotten lots of great feedback. And for those of you who didn't attend, from Oklahoma or anywhere else, please consider attending ABA TECHSHOW
ABA TECHSHOW Road Show Comes to Oklahoma
On September 24, 2009, the Oklahoma Bar Association is providing a Technology Fair for its members, featuring the ABA TECHSHOW Road Show. We are very excited to have a host of experts who will be joining me speaking to our members, including Debbie Foster (chair of ABA TECHSHOW 2010), Tom Mighell and Adriana Linares.
More on E-mail Management Tips for Lawyers
A lot of people seem to be considering e-mail management issues. Could it be because we are all looking at crowded inboxes? Here is a post by Allison Shields with her E-mail Management Tips for Lawyers.
Tips on Using Outlook Tasks to Clear Your Inbox
I returned from the ABA Annual Meeting resolved to try to make better use of Outlook Tasks to improve my life. A tip about Task due dates from Michael Linenberger, author of Total Workday Control Using Microsoft Outlook, is a part of that strategy. So far the results are mixed, but I haven't bought
Do It Yourself Stock Certificates
Here's a tighwad technology tip for those of you who are paying for pre-packaged incoporation paperwork kits from vendors. Recently an Oklahoma Bar member inquired about an inexpensive way to create stock certificates in-house when a lawyer does an incorporation for a client. I did a quick search on the Microsoft website and found a really
ABA’s Economic Recovery Resources
Hat's off to the ABA for posting its Economic Recovery Resources page. This is especially timely as I was reading on a blog yesterday a claim that the ABA wasn't doing much to help lawyers in troubled times. It has features on job searching, career transitioning, professional development, stress management and more.
A Bounty of Law Practice Tips
I try to bring you lots of different tips to allow you to practice law better. But it is rare that I get to pass along so many tips at one time. That is because the March 2009 edition of Law Practice Magazine is once again a technology tips theme issue.
The idea is to
Google May Have Quite a Loud Google Voice
There is a lot of buzz about the latest Google offering, Google Voice. I was pretty excited when I heard that it was going to offer free transcription of voicemail into text. How many times are you in a situation where you can't take a call or listen to a voice mail, but you could
Lifehacker’s Best of 2008
Sometiomes I try to do some end-of-the-year law office technology roundups. But lately I've been more focused on issues relating to practicing law in a "tough" economy. So, while it is not law-related, here's quite a collection from LifeHacker in its Best of 2008 feature. Among the offerings are Most Popular Free Downloads for Mac, Windows
Tech Tips for the Basic Computer User
I sometimes wonder how productive we all would be if we all got really good training on the technology we use. I sometimes cringe when I see someone trying to "lasso" a word to select it instead of just double clicking on it or someone grabbing the mouse to click on the menu bar for