The How to… Acrobat for Litigators slide deck is now online . The recording will be online shortly. Stay tuned!


New archives available:

Did you know that if you registered for a CBA LPMT CLE program or training class you can go back and watch the recording any time?  Simply log in to the Chicago Bar Association website and look under “Webcasts” and then select “My Seminars” from the drop down menu.  If you missed a session, the links to the recordings will be available on the LPMT site listed in the Program Archives link under “Upcoming Programs”. Just register to watch.

Also, all Chicago Bar Association members have access to previous progam materials, as well as white papers and other information.  Click on the “Articles (CBA Members Only)”  tab in the site header.


Join Us for Membership Appreciation Week! We have 3 new events happening on Tuesday, May 8 that will help you improve and expand your legal practice. We hope to see you at a complimentary CLE or in the Law Practice Management Technology Expo Hall. See details below and register at www.chicagobar.org/memberweekContinue Reading »


Listen to this month’s Digital Edge podcast on ethics and technology:

This month Sharon Nelson and Jim Calloway interview Catherine Sanders Reach, Director of Law Practice Management & Technology for the Chicago Bar Association. The topic is Ethics and Technology: The Rules are Changing. This month’s discussion covers a wide range of topics including the ABA Ethics 20/20 Commission’s recommendations as well as state opinions about lawyers offering coupon deals and other electronic marketing efforts, cloud computing, SaaS and outsourcing.


CBA LPMT Committee chair and President of Betadac Media Dan Saavedra, Associate Director of Educational Programs at the Center for CLE at the American Bar Association Skip Harsch and I shared 60 sites, tips, and resources we learned during the ABA TECHSHOW in March with the CBA LPMT Committee. Materials are available for logged in CBA members.


If you have a LinkedIn Company page, or are considering adding one, check out the recording of this 30 minute webcast  or view the presentations slides  from Hubspot on how to get more page followers and grow engagement. There is also a free download for the ebook “How to Use LinkedIn for Business“.  Don’t forget to promote your LinkedIn company page on your website and other social sites with the new LinkedIn Follow Company Plugin.

Stayed tuned for upcoming CBA training on setting up a LinkedIn company page, Facebook business page, and Google+ business page!


Did you miss ABA TECHSHOW this year? Come to the LPM Committee meeting next Friday (4/13) from 12:15 PM – 1:30 to hear a few attendees favorite tips picked up at the show. Until then…

ABA TECHSHOW 2012 – 60 Sites in 60 Minutes (The whole list)

Again this year, the always exciting 60 Sites in 60 Minutes plenary session concluded ABA TECHSHOW 2012. Presenters Natalie Kelly, Dan Pinnington, Catherine Sanders Reach and TECHSHOW Chair Reid Trautz shared variety of serious and funs sites with the packed room. For those that couldn’t make it, here is a full list of the sites they presented:

Sites to help you do your job

  • ABA Preview of Supreme Court Cases: Everything you want or need to know about what is happening at the Supreme Court, past, present and future. americanbar.org/publications/preview_home.html
  • Fastcase and Mobile Sync: Legal research on your desktop, iPhone or iPad. Bar Association users can use the Mobile Sync feature to keep one research session going across all platforms. www.fastcase.com
  • CellularAbroad is a helpful site to find the best mobile phone and coverage option specific to your phone and carrier when traveling overseas. www.cellularabroad.com
  • Google Scholar adds treatment to citing cases scholar.google.com/
  • Jureeka: Turn legal citations in web pages into hyperlinks that point to online legal source material in Chrome or Firefox jureeka.blogspot.ca
  • TinyEye: Reverse image search: find out source of an image, other uses of it, higher resolution versions, etc. www.tineye.com
  • Google Images lets you search by dragging and dropping an image www.google.com/imghp
  • Meevsu: Have a live confrontation or debate via webcam, with the audience voting for the winner meevsu.com

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Don’t miss upcoming CLE programs and free training sessions:

Coming up in April:

  • How to… Manage Your Inbox with MS Outlook (Basic)
  • Mining the Web for Information
  • How to… Set up a Google+ Business Page

Coming up in May:

  • How to… Use Adobe Acrobat as a Litigation Tool
  • Using Technology To Communicate With Clients
  • How to… Manage Your Calendar and Tasks with MS Outlook (Basic)

Register online at the Chicago Bar Association – CLE – CLE Seminars or check the LPMT “Upcoming Programs” calendar.


Did you know that if you registered for a CBA LPMT CLE program or training class you can go back and watch the recording any time?  Simply log in to the Chicago Bar Association website and look under “Webcasts” and then select “My Seminars” from the drop down menu.  If you missed a session, the links to the recordings will be available on the LPMT site listed in the Program Archives link under “Upcoming Programs”. Just register to watch.

Archives Available:

Also, all Chicago Bar Association members have access to previous progam materials, as well as white papers and other information.  Click on the “Articles (CBA Members Only)”  tab in the site header.


Privacy Please!

Dilbert on Security and Usability

Dilbert on Security and Usability


See my recent post to the SLAW.ca blog “Privacy Please!“:

This post  is already dated. Why? Because privacy – or the lack thereof – is daily news. Facebook just announced their privacy policy would be called a “data use policy”. Before that it was Google’s announcement that they would be combining all the data collected by their individual web properties (YouTube, Gmail, Blogger, Google, etc.) about you into one single place, covered by one single “privacy” policy. Security has always been in opposition with ease of use. The conflict between wanting the convenience and interaction of the free web and trading privacy for the privilege is difficult to resolve.


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