Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:57:10 PDT

Recently I was in a hotel room checking something online with my laptop when my teenaged son noted the unfairness of the situation. We had two laptops (one PC and one Mac) plus an iTouch and iPad in the room.... More

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:22:51 PDT

The Website of the Week this week is Unsuckit.com. The site's function is "What terrible business jargon do you need unsucked?" But it may work for legal jargon, too. Some examples: Low-Hanging Fruit e.g. Our budget’s tight on this one,... More

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:37:29 PDT

Words rarely fail me, but I cannot say enough good things about the July/August 2010 ABA GPSolo Magazine with a theme of "How To." Every lawyer should look over this edition of the magazine and all of the articles are... More

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:35:49 PDT

In preparing for an American Bar Association online webinar on social media, I stopped by LexTweet. LexTweet is a service of LexBlog that aggregates and ranks lawyers and others associated with the legal profession who use Twitter. I was impressed... More

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:07:08 PDT

I've decided to create a new category today called Cool Tools. These tools will primarily be very useful and practical tools that can be used in a law practice, but I reserve the right to post about some tools just... More

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:23:15 PDT

Here's a scary story about technology. A recent New York Times story Web Photos That Reveal Secrets, Like Where You Live begins like this: "When Adam Savage, host of the popular science program 'MythBusters,' posted a picture on Twitter of... More

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:35:19 PDT

Yesterday, I posted a link to an interview I did with University of Oklahoma professor Darin K. Fox. The interview was done a few months ago, but there were delays in posting it online. Professor Fox has informed me that... More

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:45:14 PDT

I have a confession to make. Sometimes when I write articles for the Oklahoma Bar Journal, I'll just include a TinyURL for the citation. I don't think anyone has really noticed. After all, the point of citations is to find... More

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:28:18 PDT

A PDF file created from a Microsoft Word document contains less metadata than the original Word document. There is less potentially embarassing metadata, like deleted comments. For a lawyer, perhaps the scariest type of metadata would be a comment made... More

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 12:47:11 PDT

A phrase that is being used a lot these days is Legal Project Management. I think we are going to hear much more about this concept in the next year or two. Examining the component parts of legal projects is... More

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:37:13 PDT

For some time, it has been clear that law firms using digital client files as their primary client files (aka the "paperless" office) was becoming the industry standard and, with a few exceptions, law firms that were not on the... More

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:14:10 PDT

Like my friend Reid Trautz, who blogs at Reid My Blog, I'm a bit behind in both online reading and posting here. So I'm just going to note that June 2010 issue of Law Practice Today, with the theme of... More

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:17:26 PDT

My friend and colleague, Reba Nance of the Colorado Bar, shared a well written tip with several of us. It illustrates how to quickly type and send an e-mail without ever leaving Microsoft Word. I was going to use it... More

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 04:01:00 PDT

Yesterday I did a blog post Virtual Law Offices are Becoming a Real-World Alternative that outlined the case for virtual law practices. The same day, Sharon Nelson and John W. Simek posted an article called The Virtual Lawyer Stampede that... More