As videoconferencing exploded in 2020, Zoom went from something most lawyers had never heard of to something many used every day. Zoom became a verb and, after months of a changed business environment with many videoconferences, many people now complain of Zoom fatigue.
While there are many video conferencing tools, Zoom zoomed to prominence for
Lawyers are often concerned about the ethics rules requirements of understanding “the risks and benefits of relevant technology.”
But you do have to competently protect your clients’ digital information and you would be wise to protect your own digital information, particularly your online financial accounts. One of the major steps in protecting digital information is
Tracking of our internet use, personal interests and the sites we visit online is getting more pervasive. You are not going to avoid it all unless you are willing not to go online. But you can minimize the tracking. Most of us have by now had creepy experiences that make us question how much we
Podcasts are hot right now and many more people are listening to them. As shelter in place for the pandemic began, I thought less commuting might cause podcasts to be less popular but instead, the opposite seems to have occurred.
Attorney@Work posted a feature today Lawyer Tech Tips: Favorite Podcasts for Learning Something New?
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Some iPhone users can’t wait to see what the new iOS update will bring. Others don’t like the changes come to their phones with software updates. I know one lawyer who refuses to let automatic updates install because “the last thing I want first thing in the morning is to learn my phone changed overnight.”
Caller ID was a great tool, at least it was, until the criminals learned to fake it. Google has an interesting new idea that is being rolled out to fight phone spam—verified calls.
“Google is slowly rolling out its new “Verified Calls” service, a kind-of supercharged Caller ID that should at least let Android users
While you don’t have to be a tech genius to fake digital evidence, you may have to hire one to uncover the fake. In Sharon Nelson’s post “Divorce Attorneys Struggle with Faked Cell Phone Evidence in Court,” I promise you will learn of one stupidly simple way to fake text messages.
Practicing law during a pandemic is both challenging and exhausting.
The OBA Management Assistance program began posting daily tips on practicing in a crisis in March. Like so many things in 2020, this has gone on much longer than we anticipated. Some readers may have missed some of our most popular tips, so we decided
Planning in pandemic times can seem like the ultimate oxymoron. So much is uncertain.
Many solo and small firm lawyers are specially threatened by current events because their client base consists primarily of middle-class individuals 
and/or small businesses. The fates of many small businesses still hang in the balance and many who considered themselves middle-class
the lessons we have all learned.
