Skip to main content

Tip of the Month

Center For Practice Management, Microsoft Office, Productivity, Tip of the Month

Don’t Doodle

Actually doodling, or scribbling, is good for your mental health. However, using the free Doodle poll tool may have the opposite effect on recipients. What is a Doodle poll? Doodle is a web-based service that helps you find a mutual time for a meeting with multiple participants. So, what is wrong with the free Doodle poll tool? Doodle has a…

Center For Practice Management, Tip of the Month

Popular Articles from the CPM ICYMI Newsletter (May 2023 – August 2023)

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. The Top Four Trends in Law Firm Sales 8/25 If you are planning for retirement and think you may sell your…

Center For Practice Management, Tip of the Month

Popular Articles from the CPM ICYMI Newsletter (February 2023 – April 2023)

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. Google Is Rolling Out Passkeys, the Password-Killing Tech, to All Accounts 5/5 The promise of the FIDO standard was the eventual…

Center For Practice Management, Email Management, Productivity, Technology, Tip of the Month

Tips for Bar Leaders (and Lawyers and Legal Pros)

At the recent Bar Leadership Institute and subsequently the NCBA Board of Governors meeting, CPM Director Catherine Sanders Reach shared some tips for productivity and efficiency for busy lawyers and bar volunteers. Like tips? Sign up for the free ICYMI newsletter and follow the CPM blog, From the Center. NCBA members get free consultations and live/archived monthly webinars.   Emojis…

Center For Practice Management, Technology, Tip of the Month

Small Tech That Makes a Big Difference

Over the past four years the NCBA Center for Practice Management blog “From the Center” has provided tips and tools that can help your firm with productivity and client service. Here are some of those that are small but mighty. You can adopt these tools into your practice without a huge investment or tech overhaul. A Better Way to Find…

Center For Practice Management, Email Management, Microsoft Office, Tip of the Month

Outlook Life Savers

You use email every day. If you use Microsoft’s Outlook for email you have a lot of power built into the program. Following are a few tips for finding email attachments quickly, save .msg files and rename them, surface a folder you might have deleted or lost, how to use the Dictate tool if you want to be hands free,…

Center For Practice Management, Tip of the Month

Tips from the CPM ICYMI Newsletter (July-September 2020)

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 quick tips from the past issues of the newsletter. How to Enable Ransomware Protection Feature on Windows 10 If you have a computer running Windows 10, Microsoft’s remarkably robust…

Center For Practice Management, Tip of the Month

Tip of the Month: September 2020

Tip of the Month: Out of Office Auto Responses If you send an email newsletter you will usually get quite a few automated out of office responses. Inevitably one, if not more, of the responses indicate the person is out of the office referencing dates in the past. For instance, an Out of Office (OoO) response from a person whose…

Center For Practice Management, Tip of the Month, Wellness

CPM Tip of the Month: August 2020

Our computing devices are hurting our eyes. Screen pulsations, screen brightness, blue light, lack of blinking and other byproducts of working on computer can cause eyestrain, eye pain and uncomfortable dry eye. And that is not to mention negatively affecting our circadian rhythms for restful sleep. Computer Vision Syndrome come from prolonged computer, table, ereader and smartphone use. An article…

Center For Practice Management, Microsoft Office, PDF, Tip of the Month

CPM Tip of the Month: July 2020

Not all PDFs are created equal, especially when it comes to transferring hyperlinks from the original document. If you have ever spent a substantial amount of time creating a hyperlinked Table of Contents or adding embedded links into a MS Word document then be aware that how  you save the Word document to PDF will have an effect on the…