Most law firms maintain a brief bank or forms library. Operating from prior work as a starting place has been a long-established work practice in many workplaces. As I previously noted in my Law Practice Magazine column Your Document Czar (July/August 2015), the way law firms produce Gold standard documentdocuments is evolving as document assembly tools enter

Robot and gavelThe idea for my column, Automation in Today’s Law Firm, came during a holiday evening in the Calloway household, when my spouse and I were setting up several automated tasks, none of which had anything to do with the Internet of Things.

There has been much discussion among futurists and technologists about how robots

Everyone talks about New Year's Resolutions. My favorite joke is about the New Year's Resolutions Gym concept. It is a gym during January and February, then converts to a bar & night club for several months until just before Thanksgiving. Then it becomes a holiday buffet for the rest of the year. Interested investors can

Many readers are aware that I am a proponent of using checklist-style office procedures manuals in the law office. I urge all lawyers to read Atul Gawnde's The Checklist Manifesto.

But sometimes it is difficult to convince busy people that they should prepare checklists for tasks that they already know how to do and