Posted in Mobile on Apr 11th, 2013
You might have heard already, but we are experiencing a mobile revolution. The message from market research companies is loud and clear – mobile web access is growing exponentially. What’s more, Search Engine Watch reports a Google survey of mobile users found that they are five times more likely to abandon the task they are trying to [...]
Posted in CBA LPMT News, Mobile, Solo Practice on Feb 28th, 2013
Law practice management and technology tips are a great way to get quick shots of information you can use immediately – or tuck away for when you need them. In January I presented a CLE for the CBA on “Tips for the New Year”. Did you miss it? Watch the archived webcast and download the [...]
Google’s Chrome web browser is a stable, fast, and functional piece of software used to access the Internet. For many years Microsoft’s Internet Explorer dominated the browser market, followed by Mozilla’s Firefox. Google released Chrome in September 2008, and now its usage has surpassed Firefox and Internet Explorer globally. However, Internet Explorer is still the [...]
Posted in CBA LPMT News, Legal Research, Mobile, Solo Practice on Jan 11th, 2013
General Administrative Order No. 2013-01 Revises and Supersedes General Administrative Order No. 2012-8 On December 12, 2012 General Administrative Order No. 2012-8 was released, declaring a ban against mobile computing and telecommunication devices for all Cook County courthouses except the Daley Center to begin on Monday, January 14, 2013. A list of exempt persons was identified, including licensed attorneys, who would be permitted [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Collaboration, iPad, Mobile on Oct 16th, 2012
The iPad is quickly becoming a “must-have” for every lawyer. It’s more than a Smartphone but not quite a laptop…it’s more like an “electronic legal pad.” Lawyers are finding the iPad to be the perfect tool for reading books, annotating documents, taking notes, catching-up on news, surfing the Web, giving presentations, and a myriad of [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Collaboration, Legal Project Management, Mobile on Oct 9th, 2012
My new article in Attorney at Work: Asana vs. Trello: Checklist Collaboration Tools Compared In his book The Checklist Manifesto, surgeon Atul Gawande asserts that checklists are a “cognitive net,” a mechanism that can help prevent experienced people from making errors due to flawed memory and attention, and ensure that teams work together. Or, as Steven Levitt of Freakonomics fame put it, “the [...]
Posted in How To..., Marketing, Mobile, Social Media on Jul 3rd, 2012
Recently LinkedIn announced that due to an updated Twitter policy users can no longer have their tweets automatically appear as updates in LinkedIn. LinkedIn suggests that you update your status in LinkedIn and send it to Twitter, rather than sending tweets to LinkedIn. However, for many, that may not be an optimal workflow. Most lawyers [...]
Posted in Android, Legal Research, Mobile on Jun 5th, 2012
In the news for lawyers using the Android operating system on their mobile devices, the much anticipated Fastcase app for Android is now available. Read my quick review at AttorneyatWork: For lawyers who do not have a Fastcase account at all, this app—like the Fastcase iPhone app—allows you to search, browse, read and save statutes and cases [...]
Posted in Google, How To..., Marketing, Mobile, Social Media, Social Media Search on May 31st, 2012
Google has incorporated Google Profiles and Google Places into Google+. In the past lawyers could boost their online presence by filling out a free Google Profile, which created a publicly available profile that included pictures, hobbies, personal and professional interests. You could link to your webpage, blog, LinkedIn profile or anything else you’d like to share. [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Google, Mobile, MS Office on May 22nd, 2012
Read my Attorney At Work article on how lawyers who are dependent on the cloud can be productive even when offline: Sometimes you just don’t have access to the Internet. Whether you’re traveling in a plane, or in a remote (or sometimes not so remote) area that has no WiFi, 3G or 4G coverage, or simply because [...]
