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Every week subscribers receive the ICYMI enewsletter from the NCBA Center for Practice Management. The newsletter highlights tips, tools, trends, and techniques to help your law practice. The following are a few popular links from the past issues of the newsletter. Lessons for Legal from Microsoft Outage: Know Your Recourse Options 2/3/2023 Microsoft 365 went down last week for roughly 6 hours,…

If you are a Microsoft 365 Business Standard or Premium subscriber and using the Exchange and SharePoint server products that are bundled with the offer, you may have some new collaboration tools to explore. While these are very new, additions like reactions, @mentions, Loop, and notifications may help you stay on top of email as an action item in a…

Many clients want to text with their attorneys, but firms may be wary for many reasons. However, there are ways to meet in the middle. Texting reminders of deadlines and appointments, directions, and other short messages may make it easier for clients to be responsive. Attorneys also want to keep a record of these texts, especially to monitor communication between…

No matter how often you write there is always room for improvement. Correct word choice, sentence structure, and impeccable grammar are requirements. Structure, flow, meaning, and intent are vital to cognition. Your writing should be clear and unambiguous. There are tips and tools to help you write more effectively. Writing for the Reader A recent MIT study examined why legal…

Automation is a big buzzword in the legal technology world. There are many tools a law firm can use to streamline processes, reduce administrative hassles and improve efficiency. With so many ways to apply automation to your firm’s daily activities it may seem a little overwhelming. While there are some very sophisticated products that can help a firm build impressive…

Gmail and Google Docs are rolling out some big changes. These include new features in Docs, a new interface in Gmail, offline access and more. If you use Gmail and Google Docs for home or work, read on to find out what is new with these products. New Gmail Interface For Google Workspace users, and eventually all Gmail users, you…

You cannot manage time. You can’t make it faster, slower, or create more of it. However, you can manage yourself, your focus, and your priorities. What results are you trying to achieve by controlling how you use the time you have more effectively? From triaging priorities to task management to controlling interruptions, we will explore some techniques to leverage how…

If you subscribe to the Business Standard or Premium versions of Microsoft 365 there are many features that can be useful to your law firm. Other Microsoft products, like Bing and Edge, are supercharged when you are logged in with your business subscription. Here are three ways you can get see a daily dashboard of your activities, search across email,…