Email is a part of our lives, like it or not. It is great when you need to deliver documents to another state without paying for a courier. But between all the spam, the phishing attempts to attack your computers and an appreciation that most emails contain a request for you to do something when
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Our smart phones are so powerful and there are so many apps available for them, it is hard to keep up with everything that is possible.
For iPhone users in the legal profession, Jeff Richardson’s iPhoneJD site has been a resource for many years. If you are interested in a new app, you can go
Adding a Signature in a Word Document on PC or Mac
Sometimes adding a signature to a document before you print it is a big timesaver. Many lawyers have scanned their signature and added it to their email signature as an image so they can “sign” their emails with their own handwriting.
But you can also do that with a Microsoft Word document. Even if you
Client Portals: A Must-Have Service for Today’s Law Firms
Recently Attorney at Work published my feature Client Portals: A Must-Have Service for Today’s Law Firms. After I covered this subject at virtual ABA TECHSHOW 2021, they reached out to me to write this feature. If you have not yet read it, I strongly encourage you to do so today. The benefits of providing
10 Features of Microsoft 365 That Lawyers Love
Our latest Digital Edge Podcast is 10 Features of Microsoft 365 That Lawyers Love featuring Ben Schorr, senior technical writer at Microsoft. Ben has been involved with 
technology for lawyers for years, having previously served on ABA TECHSHOW planning board. While everyone loves a good Top Ten list, this podcast is really special in that
Law Office Automation in Minutes – Outlook Quick Steps
Would you invest just a few minutes doing something that will save you minutes each workday afterwards? Outlook users can quickly and easily automate several email actions to run sequentially using Quick Steps..
Open an email in Outlook and you see the Quick Steps in the Ribbon at the top. You can use the arrow
Takeaways and Tips From ABA TECHSHOW 2021
Attorney@Work posted Takeaways and Tips From ABA TECHSHOW 2021 today.
I was happy to contribute, along with several legal technologists and practice management advisors. If you know me, you know I love ABA TECHSHOW. The takeaways on this featuree are wide-ranging and cover a diverse set of issues. I hope it will inspire you
10 Top Technology Tools for the Small Firm Lawyer
Let me stress this is “ten top” tools, not a ranked Top Ten list. But these ten types of tools should be on the agenda for implementation in most solo and small firm practices.
Here’s the quote I’d emphasize from the column.
The most significant observation I have distilled from the past year is the
The Copier in Your Pocket
It is now a cliché to note that we have more computing power in our mobile phones than NASA had at its disposal during the moon missions. Today we’ll discuss harnessing one bit of that power with scanning apps.
Suppose you are visiting with a client outside of your office and the client shows you
Did your Outlook Update Move Your Search Bar? There may be a problem with that, (December 17, 2020)
Ah, the Windows Update! The magical time in our lives when we get more features at the price of familiar things being moved around, if not eliminated. So, the most recent update moved my Outlook search bar. This likely happened to most of us. At first there was a moment of panic because, let’s face