One of the hardest parts of being a solo attorney is all the non-lawyering tasks that have to be accomplished on a day-to-day basis. What’s worse is we can’t bill clients for that time. It’s not just me that sees this as a problem for solo lawyers: LexisNexis recently released a survey indicating solo and […]
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Few things make me happier than a double monitor. If I had my druthers, I would set my office up to mirror the docking stations in “The Matrix.” I would have 15 screens with scrolling green letters and numbers … The legend of the quad-monitor is quietly whispered throughout the halls of Micro Center and […]
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You probably already know that you can use the “cut and paste” feature in Microsoft Word to copy one set of text to another place, but if you want to select several different pieces of text to cut and paste, it’s much easier to copy each snippet of text at once and have Word save […]
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There are times when it would be helpful to embed a document in a contact, calendar, or task in Outlook. For example, you might have a reception on your calendar and want to embed a PDF copy of the invitation in your calendar so you have it handy. You might have a copy of a […]
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Studies show the average law firm spends upwards of 30 percent of its time creating documents, most of which are repetitive. This area should be low-hanging fruit for improving productivity. The problem has been that most solutions are expensive, complex, and time consuming to install, learn, and program. TheFormTool has changed all that. There is […]
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Please answer this one question! Hint: If you think you need to ask IT, the answer is no. A few weeks ago, I got into a bit of a tiff with another writer about whether lawyers should be encrypting their email with clients to meet their ethical obligations. The writer works for Zix Corporation, an […]
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You may have heard of WebEx and Go to Meeting, or even participated in a session using these tools. When connected to the Internet, both allow you to see someone else’s screen and are used for document review and collaboration, demonstrations of anything that can be displayed on a computer screen, software training, remote tech […]
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It’s happened to all of us: You compose an email message in Outlook, hit send, and then realize you forgot to include the attachment; or you hit send and then realize you sent it to the wrong person; or your reply went to everyone except to the person who sent the original message; or you […]
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