Today’s Times Demonstrate That Lawyers Must Accept Electronic Payments (May 12, 2020)
Lawyers and law firms that were unable to process electronic payments were often challenged during the last two months. We heard tales of woe of lawyers in other states barred from going to their offices to pick up the mail or good clients of law firms who promised that they had mailed a check for
Ten Tech Tips for Productivity (and Important Zoom Update) (May 11, 2020)
Ten Tech Tips for Productivity (and Important Zoom Update) (May 11, 2020)
Note the May 30th “deadline” to upgrade Zoom or you may find yourself locked out of an encrypted Zoom meeting.
Removing Formatting from Word Documents (April 17, 2020)
Part of crisis management in law firms today involves more lawyers spending more time editing their Word documents. Whether resulting from layoffs, work from home delays or people having different assignments, it is 
sometimes not as easy today to have a co-worker “clean up the formatting of a document” quickly.
These quick “unformatting” tips will
Videoconferencing Improves Client Relations in Quarantine
Access to Justice and Productivity Gains for All Lawyers
Access to Justice and Productivity Gains for All Lawyers is my latest column in the Oklahoma Bar Journal. Increasing productivity is important for lawyers in every practice setting, so don’t let this title mislead you. The column is as much for the corporate lawyer as the access to justice warrior. I noted the observations of
The Lawyer with a Messy Desk
I’ve been in a lot of lawyer’s offices and have seen a lot of messy desks.
I’m not very judgmental about them because I understand there’s often a method behind some of the madness and I’m also a fellow traveler/sufferer/practitioner.
Now don’t get me wrong. Almost all my office processes are paperless and have been
Ten Tips From the OBA Opening Your Law Practice Program
Most of my blog posts are not Oklahoma-specfic, but this one does mention some OBA resources. It also contain links to much useful free content for anyone opening a new law practice anywhere.
Each year we have a free program for lawyers who are opening a new law practice. The next programs are scheduled September
Collaboration Tools for Lawyers
It has been Collaboration Week for lawyers. It’s not like the ABA or Congress designated it as such, but that still seems to be the case. The “week” actually started last Friday when Attorney At Work published Tech Tips: Collaborating Well With Others. The post noted:
For this edition of Friday Tech Tips, we
ABA TECHSHOW 2018: Why you should go and What you need to know
ABA TECHSHOW 2018 will be held March 7-10 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago. It’s an important year to attend ABA TECHSHOW. Long-discussed changes are underway in our profession and many of them relate to technology. Many consumers are purchasing legal products online. Smart contracts powered by blockchain technology sound very realistic and appealing to large