For our 150th Edition of the Digital Edge Podcast, we decided to have as our guests three lawyers who have decades of combined podcasting experience— Bob Ambrogi, Tom Mighell and Joe Patrice— for A Legal Podcast about Legal Podcasting. We cover a wide range of topics from advice to lawyers considering creating their
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Dennis Garcia on A New Decade for #TechIntensity in the Legal Profession
Lawyers hear a lot about networking. Conferences and CLE programs feature “networking luncheons,” even though the only scheduled activity is eating. Networking opportunities are more challenging today because what used to be networking time in “the old days” is now the time for everyone to pull out their smart phone and disappear into it.
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Everyone’s Watching You Online: How to Fight Back—RTL Blog
Everyone’s Watching You Online: How to Fight Back is a well-timed post on the week of Black Friday, the kickoff of holiday shopping season, by my Digital Edge Podcast teammate Sharon Nelson.
Just when some of us are beginning to believe that the battle for protecting your privacy online is lost, here is a…
Windows 7’s End of Life is real and the rumors of life after death are somewhat exaggerated
I have been warning lawyers that Windows 7 su
pport will end on January 14, 2020 and that it will be dangerous to use a Windows 7 machine to hold client data after that date. The challenge is that nearly half of the computers in the U.S. are running Windows 7. Another budgetary challenge…
Artificial Intelligence and Everyday Law Practice

For many, their most indelible and perhaps oldest memory of artificial intelligence is HAL 9000 saying “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that” when Dave asks him to open the pod bay doors in the classic science fiction thriller 2001: A Space Odyssey . Here’s a YouTube video of the scene if you…
Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips relaunches as a member of the LexBlog Network
I’m Jim Calloway and, among the many things I have done, I’ve been a blogger covering legal technology, law office management, legal ethics and similar subjects since January 2005.
Several challenges forced me to take a blogging hiatus last year. But, as the saying goes, every challenge brings with it an opportunity. I am very…
The Cloudy Ethics of Cloud Computing
One of our best Digital Edge podcasts of 2018
was The Cloudy Ethics of Cloud Computing with Lucian I. Pera. Lucian is a partner with Adams and Reese, LLP and writes the Ethics column for ABA’s Law Practice Magazine. He was named the youngest member of the ABA Ethics 2000 Commission, was ABA…
Law Office Automation and the Big Ideas Issue of Law Practice Magazine
The Big Ideas issue of the ABA Law Practice Magazine is one of my favorite publications of the year and the latest on (July/August 2019) is now online and free for you to read. This year the theme is automation. Heidi S. Alexander, Director of Massachusetts Law Office Management Assistance Program, provides practical advice on…