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. Following are a few popular links from the past issues of the newsletter. Judge Disparaged Lawyer, Apparently Unaware of Livestream: ‘Can You Imagine Waking Up Next to Her Every Day?’ (January 21, 2022) We have…
Have you ever sent an engagement agreement to a potential client, never to hear from them again? Waited on the mail to get a signed document so you can move the matter forward? Sent an MS Word document or image only PDF to a client for signature? In addition to improving your client-centric focused practice, electronic signature tools can help…
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…
Many law firms put off upgrading and replacing outdated software and hardware because of the cost and disruption. However, putting off purchasing replacement hardware and updating your operating systems, server software, and mission critical systems until they are outdated and insecure will cost far more eventually. The delay in upgrades and replacements will have a cascading effect, forcing you to…
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…
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…
In a recent LinkedIn post Patrick Brown, director of information security at Lawyers Mutual, noted that the Fall 2021 North Carolina State Bar Journal has an all-caps message on page 24 from the Grievance Committee stating “… that lawyers who fail to take adequate precautions to protect against wire fraud scams can expect imposition of more serious professional discipline.” Why? Despite…
If you recently switched from using Gmail or MS Outlook and miss some of the features and layout of your familiar email application, there are some things that you can do to make Gmail look more like Outlook (or make Outlook look more like Gmail). The interfaces to these two popular email programs are vastly different, but there are lots…
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. Following are a few popular links from the past issues of the newsletter. Update Your iPhone, iPad, Mac Immediately, Apple Warns (July 30, 2021) If you have not yet updated your Apple devices do so…
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?…