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Gift Buying Guides for the Lawyers in Your Life

We have been told to purchase gifts early this year due to delayed shipping and supply chain woes. If you have not started purchasing gifts for those on your list, or you have not put together your wish list for those who keep asking, here is a roundup of the gifts for lawyers blog posts out for 2021, plus a…

Center For Practice Management, Microsoft Office, Productivity, Smartphones, Technology

Defensive Calendaring

Do you feel like your calendar is under constant bombardment with meetings, events, client consultations and to-dos? Do you know how to effectively leverage electronic calendars such as Google Calendar or Microsoft Outlook to block and tackle for time? Apply some defensive calendaring techniques and tips to effectively coordinate meetings with multiple people, allow people to self-schedule and leverage artificial…

Center For Practice Management, Marketing, Research, Smartphones, Technology

The Wonderful World of Podcasts

Podcasts are serial audio programs on a vast range of topics that you can subscribe to and listen at your leisure. While you can listen to them on a browser, there are podcasts players that provide more bells and whistles for your mobile device. What podcasts cover practice management topics? What if you want to go from listening to starting…

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Options for Law Office Phone Systems

Whether you are looking to add more remote capabilities, add business texting to your communications mix, incorporate video conferencing or just know that your phone system is running on fumes, there are a lot of choices for phone systems for law offices that can increase stability and provide lots of options. What should a firm look for in these systems?…

Center For Practice Management, Cloud Computing, Email Management, Microsoft Office, Productivity, Smartphones, Technology

Microsoft 365 and MS Office Resources

Microsoft 365 (fka Office 365) is the subscription model that consists of the MS Office suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote) plus MS Outlook and cloud-based servers (Exchange and SharePoint). The Business Standard version is $12.50 per user per month. That is merely the tip of the iceberg, as the subscription also comes with many other tools like Teams for communication…

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Getting the Most from Your LinkedIn Profile

You may have a LinkedIn profile but have not updated it in a while. You may not actively visit the platform or engage with other users. LinkedIn is not the biggest social network, with 722 million users globally versus Instagram’s 1 billion users, but that doesn’t it mean it isn’t a great place to connect with other lawyers and professionals…

Center For Practice Management, Cloud Computing, Email Management, Microsoft Office, Smartphones

Power in Your Palm: Microsoft Outlook and Office Apps

If you are a Microsoft 365 user then getting the Outlook and Office app on your smart phone is an easy decision.  Built for what you need from your small screen, these apps provide an amazing amount of functionality, including scanning, signatures, managing your calendar and far more. MS Outlook App Sure, you can get your Outlook emails on the…

Center For Practice Management, Document Generation, Microsoft Office, Productivity, Smartphones, Technology

Technology Spring Cleaning

Spring is often the time people clean out closets, declutter their homes, move bulky sweaters to storage and other tasks to celebrate the new season with a fresh start. Lawyers can do some “spring cleaning” on their technology – whether optimizing your devices, adding some automation, or finally unsubscribing from all the unread emails, there are lots of things to…

Center For Practice Management, COVID-19, Ethics, Security, Smartphones

Somebody’s Watching Me

Many lawyers and legal support staff are working from home, using their laptops, personal smartphones, and online video conferencing to stay connected. These services and devices have features that may be listening and collecting confidential information. Other devices in the home, like webcams, smart TVs, voice-activated assistants, and Internet of Things (IoT) connected hardware, may also be listening. While you…

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Some Tech Tips from ABA TECHSHOW 2020

That’s a wrap and ABA TECHSHOW 2020 is in the books. The conference ends with a session called “60 in 60” and a panel of speakers provide whimsical, useful and sometimes outrageous tips for lawyers. The following are some tips that might be useful in your practice. Add a Virtual Background in Zoom Consider using Zoom to communicate with clients…