Jim Calloway and Sharon Nelson invite you to listen to our annual ‘Tis the Season Tech Toys for the Holidays podcast on the Digital Edge podcast. We were particularly happy with this year’s edition. Every 
year we highlight some practical and not-so practical tech toys with some remote work and COVID-related gift ideas in
Should You Copy Clients on Emails to Opposing Counsel? (November 20, 2020)
This is a very nice treatment of this issue from my friend Nicole Black— Should you copy clients on emails to opposing counsel? Those who have read my musings on the subject know I think BCC should never been used for email, unless you are using that technique to file the emails within your system,
Some Ethics Guidance on Social Media is in the post Blogging, Posting and Ethics — Oh, My! (November 19, 2020)
Today’s tip is from Attorney@Work and Will Hornsby, who is an attorney focused on the professional responsibility of innovative and tech-based legal services. He served as staff counsel in the ABA’s Division for Legal Services for 30 years.
His post Blogging, Posting and Ethics — Oh, My! is very useful information for any attorney who
Increasing Your Visibility in a Virtual World (November 18, 2020)
Dennis Garcia is an Assistant General Counsel for Microsoft. I have mentioned him before in my 2020 tips. He recently delivered a presentation to the Microsoft Legal Department Latinx employee community about strategies for remaining visible – and increasing visibility – in the workplace despite working in a remote environment. He shared his tips in
Do You Know 25 Words That Are Their Own Opposites? November 17, 2020
Today’s tip is something completely different. We will discuss your vocabulary. Lawyers generally have a larger vocabulary than most because we work with both the written and the spoken word— and we had to add many new words to our vocabulary in law school.
But when drafting, it is very good to know some words
Learn New Ways to use Your iPhone (November 16, 2020)
iPhone JD’s Jeff Richardson has just published 20 iPhone tips for lawyers in 2020. Did you know VIP notifications can be set to notify you if you receive an email from someone special? There are some great tips here, including using your iPhone as a magnifying glass, taking a picture while recording a video
Do you know how to conceal your phone number when placing a call? (November 5, 2020)
This question sounds a bit clandestine. But in an age of mobile phone and spam phone calls, many of us are concerned about widely sharing our mobile phone numbers.
Several months ago I wrote a column for the Oklahoma Bar Journal Text Messaging for Lawyers. In it, I mentioned ZipWhip, an enterprise texting
Here are 6 Microsoft Teams features Zoom doesn’t have (November 4, 2020)
Zoom became extraordinarily popular this year. When people were locked down and working from home, what was not to like about a free videoconferencing service that was simple and easy to use? We then got to hear a lot about Zoom’s shortcomings from bloggers and reviewers. I always suspected Microsoft was encouraging that line of
Calendly Announces Integration with Microsoft Teams (November 3, 2020)
Calendly now integrates with Teams, Zoom, and GoToMeeting and the integration is done through its basic free plan. See Calendly Announces Integration with Microsoft Teams, Makes All Video Conferencing Free For Users.
If you don’t know what Calendly does, you haven’t been to a legal technology conference in a while because “let me
Beware the Four Most Dangerous Outlook Features (November 2, 2020)
From today’s Attorney@Work, Beware the Four Most Dangerous Outlook Features, written by by Deborah Savadra. I’ve cited both sources for tips earlier this year. I have to note that if I had been asked to guess the most dangerous outlook features, I would have likely come up with the same four. This is a