Published By Jim Calloway
Surely you have heard of the Internet security threat Heartbleed by now. But the explanations seem a bit complicated and advice to change all of your passwords yet again seems so “been there, done that.”
This is a serious matter. The short explanation is that Heartbleed is not something that infects your computer, but a…
ABA TECHSHOW 2014 was a great success, breaking all of its previous attendance records. Congratulations to ABA TECHSHOW chair Natalie R. Kelly and the rest of the TECHSHOW planning board. For our Digital Edge podcast this month, Sharon Nelson and I interviewed Natalie about her thoughts after the whirlwind experience of the week before. We…
Adopting Mobile Technology – What Does that Mean for Today’s Lawyers? was my column last month in the Oklahoma Bar Journal. Although this was a very basic treatment of the topic, I hope lawyers and law firm managers appreciate that, for marketing purposes, how your law firm web site appears on smart phones and other…
The Early Bird Deadline for ABA TECHSHOW 2014 is February 10. (UPDATE: Extended to Feb. 17) TECHSHOW will be held at the Chicago Hilton March 27-29. There are many exciting programs as you can see on the conference schedule. Of special note will be keynote presentations by Rick Klau, who is a partner at…
Can Lawyers Be Luddites? it is sort of a trick question. If you don't know what Luddite means, there is a far greater chance that you are one. I'll give you more information about the origination of the term later in this post, but suffice to say that today Luddite means that you are anti-technology.…
We have certainly seen many changes in the way business is done over the last few decades. Many of these have to do with the prominence of the Internet and other technological advances. But others have to do with consumer attitudes and expectations. Innovation is important for today's businesses. Encouraging innovative behavior in law firms…
On crisp fall Sunday afternoons, many NFL fans are wrapped up in
following football games– on television and via mobile devices.
Whether they watch in a sports bar or in their living room, they cheer loudly
for the big plays. Suprisingly, some of the most focused watchers may not
really care which team wins. They…
In my Oklahoma Bar Journal column, The Virtual Law Practice
− Are We All Virtual Lawyers Now? I play around a bit with the term virtual
lawyers and ask some questions about what the term really means. Does it refer only
to online delivery of legal services, to lawyers who sometimes telecommute from home…
Whether to ban Google Glass is undoubtedly not on your law firm's radar right now. Most of the partners have never heard of Google Glass. And the product is not even available to the public yet. Now it is only in use by Google employees and a few thousand "explorers."
Google Glass is wearable technology…
No one thinks it is unusual or wrong for a professional copy editor to write copy for a law firm's website. But blogging has always been a more personal endeavor. Some lawyers who are time-challenged or whose writing skills are better for briefs than blog posts have turned to "ghost bloggers" and now some lawyer…