Law Technology

ScanSnap Community ? Are you a Part of It?

Posted on May 20, 2010
ScanSnap users, if you aren't checking out the ScanSnap Community website or subscribe to the ScanSnap Newsletter you should be. Fujitsu has created a destination for users of ScanSnap model Fujitsu scanners that includes Tips & Tricks, how to articles, ask the expert section and even a marketplace for vendors that have created ScanSnap specific products.

MarketYourLawPractice.Com Added as Member Benefit for Wisconsin Lawyers

Posted on May 14, 2010
The State Bar of Wisconsin has added MarketYourLawPracice.com (MYLP) as a member benefit through its Affinity Provider Program. MYLP is a web-based interactive marketing tool developed especially for lawyers that can help Wisconsin lawyers create a marketing plan that attracts new clients and develops new business.

Do Lawyers Need A ?Stupid? Stamp: Think Before You Post Online To Avoid Ethical Pitfalls

Posted on May 12, 2010
The lawyers covered are from across the country and the online vehicles of their self destruction vary from blogs to Facebook to commenting on online news stories. And it's not just lawyers: Judges are getting caught as well. One of the examples involves, I'm sorry to say, an Assistant Public Defender from my home county of Winnebago, Illinois, who was posting about her clients and their cases in very free and open language...

Do you really need a firm ?tagline??

Posted on May 10, 2010
Interesting post over at The Great Jakes Blog  on the necessity and usefulness of taglines in building a law firm's brand in marketing efforts. For those of you not familiar with the term, a tagline (in this instance) refers to a short statement or motto that defines a firms mission (and should do so as [...

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Firms are moving to the Cloud

Posted on May 04, 2010
Interesting interview over at the InsideLegal blog with Eric Hunter, Director of Knowledge Management for Bradford & Barthel LLP which is based in California and has 73 attorneys and 207 employees. Hunter details the firms 24 month plan to move away from internal applications and move everything over to the Cloud including replacing MS Office with Google Apps...

Useful (and free) Office resources from Microsoft

Posted on May 03, 2010
Unfortunately, since we had spent years learning the counter-intuitive MS menu structure, the Office 2007 menus didn't make sense. Add to this the less than helpful help screens (remember "Clippy" the paperclip), the end result could be extreme frustration on figuring out what should be a simple task ( or so one thought) extremely painful...

How-To Geek: Complete Guide to Networking Windows 7 with XP and Vista

Posted on April 20, 2010
If you've ever tried to network a Windows Vista or Windows 7 computer with computers running Windows XP and you still have hair, you're one of the lucky ones. Because of changes in the security settings and OS, Vista and Win 7 don't like to play nice on a Windows XP network but chances are that you need to get at least two of these three operating systems to talk to each other so you can share data...

Young Lawyers and Technology: A Paradigm Shift?

Posted on April 15, 2010
To stay relevant, older attorneys and those not as comfortable with technology must overcome their fears and adapt to the new reality lest they go the way of the buggy whip and horse drawn carriage.

Site of the Week: Document Assembly & Case Management Blog

Posted on April 07, 2010
Seth Rowland, Basha Systems, a Time Matters CIC and document assembly master has finally launched a blog on on document assembly named fittingly the Document Assembly & Case Management Blog.

PCMag.com Best Free Software of 2010 List is out

Posted on April 05, 2010
PCMag.com has published its list of the Best Software of 2010. From Anti-Malware to Office apps, Conferencing/VoIP to Remote Access there is something for everyone on this list and the folks at PCMag have done their usual fine job of breaking them down into easy to understand and find categories...

Marketing Tip: Give your clients something solid.

Posted on March 29, 2010
If you do real estate or estate planning work, give your clients closing books or estate planning document binders â?? not those cheesy vinyl floppy folders that real estate agents like to use....

Danger Will Robinson: One Email Causes Big Headache for a Small Law Firm

Posted on March 18, 2010
For everyone who remembers t he 1960's SciFi series Lost in Space, the events that recently hit Crosby Higgins LLP would be the point in the show where the robot says Danger, Will Robinson, danger.. Every lawyer should read One Very Small Law Firm; One Extremely Large Computer Virus found at the Wall Street Journal Law Blog...

Marketing Tip: When you get a business card, don?t just throw it in a drawer!

Posted on March 15, 2010
When you receive a business card from someone, use the back side to write down where you met them and one thing that they seemed to be interested in.

Do You Know What Free Legal Research Your State Bar Offers?

Posted on March 10, 2010
The folks over at 3 Geeks and a Law Blog (Toby Brown, Lisa Salazar & Greg Lambert) have a post putting up an interactive map of the US that shows which legal research product the bar associations of each state provides to its members. The map is from the Many Eyes site which I hadn't encountered before but is pretty interesting.

Marketing Tip: Always Give your Client 2 Business Cards

Posted on March 01, 2010
Happy clients can be some of your best marketing, so give them a card to keep and one to pass on to someone else.

Get your FREE PDF of the Federal Rules of Evidence 2010

Posted on February 18, 2010
Hat tip to fellow PMA and Blogger Jim Calloway who let me know that you can download a free pdf version of the Federal Rules of Evidence 2010 from the Federal Evidence Review website. This download provides you with a fully searchable pdf of the latest FRE.

ABA TECHSHOW 2010 Early Bird Pricing Ends February 19, 2009

Posted on February 16, 2010
State Bar of Wisconsin members can receive a $50.00 special discount. Please use Event Promoter Code EP1020 when registering online or by completing the Event Promoter Registration Form,

Marketing Tip: Take a Client to Lunch

Posted on February 15, 2010
Once a month, take a different client out to lunch or meet them at their business.

LexisNexis February 2010 Coffee Break Webinars Announced

Posted on February 09, 2010
Global Climate Change Law: New Implications for Businesses, Attorneys and Clients Tuesday, February 23 3:00?3:20pm EST How do new federal and state climate change regulations and legislation impact your practice, your business and your clients? businesses? In this 20?minute Webinar, Bradley Marten, Managing Partner of the Seattle based law firm Marten Law PLLC, introduces the LexisNexis Global Climate Change Special Pamphlets?a new series of publications designed to help you understand the latest developments in climate change legislation, regulation and case law?with special emphasis on the implications for corporations, attorneys and clients...

Capture handwriting and project it in real time without wires.

Posted on February 03, 2010
A number of digital pen products let you capture your handwriting in electronic form. Typically with these products, you have to download the handwritten information onto your computer before you can view it on the screen. A lot of times that works fine?but what if you?re in a meeting or presentation and want to have on-the-fly handwritten annotations or drawings appear on the screen?

Marketing Tip: Give visitors something to ?take away? from your blog.

Posted on February 01, 2010
Everyone likes to get free information and your blog or website is a great way to help with your marketing efforts

Hardcore Scanning for Law Offices of ANY Size Named one of Best of ABA TECHSHOW

Posted on January 27, 2010
Lawyers are afloat in a sea of paper presenting challenges in both short term and long term storage, being able to find information quickly and reducing malpractice risks from handling all of this paper. As firms move more and more to a paperless environment (or at least a reduced paper environment), scanning has become an integral piece of accomplishing these goals...

Marketing Tip: Get on the Web

Posted on January 25, 2010
Every firm or solo should have a website or blog (or both) but make it more than a ?brochure.?

Think before you Tat ? Can Body Art Affect your Employment Opportunities

Posted on January 22, 2010
In today's challenging legal employment climate, potential employees (whether lawyers or staff), need to carefully think about every thing that can potentially affect their job prospects. This includes body piercings and tattoos which seem to be the current craze...

Version 15.3 of Tabs3 Released

Posted on January 06, 2010
It's good to see one of the few remaining independent time, billing and practice management software companies continue to roll out improvements to a product that has earned a reputation of being rock solid.

Changes to Wisconsin Trust Account coming on January 1, 2010

Posted on December 29, 2009
s modified to provide that IOLTA accounts must be held in accounts in institutions that pay interest equivalent to non-IOLTA accounts

Let them eat Cake in Computer Forensics? Maybe not this time.

Posted on December 16, 2009
Law enforcement agencies around the country use Encase from Guidance Software to forensically image computer disks in investigations and prosecutions. This means that defense experts need to own this $3,000+ program rather than a less expensive alternative...

ABA TECHSHOW 2010 Full Program Released

Posted on December 10, 2009
It's hard to believe that ABA TECHSHOW 2010 is less than four months away. Set for Chicago, IL March 25-27, TECHSHOW 2010 promises a plethora of educational sessions in 15 tracks. The full program and schedule has been released and can be found here.

Law firms and Social Networking: A cautionary Post

Posted on December 08, 2009
Kevin O'Keefe of Real Lawyers have Blogs and Lexblog has a thought provoking post titled Law firms should beware social media snake oil that points out when dealing with the plethora of so called legal social networking 'experts' you needn't check you common sense at the door.

Marketing Tip: The look of your brochures and other marketing is important

Posted on December 07, 2009
They don?t have to be four color glossy and professionally photographed and done. However, if it looks less than professional or has typographical errors, you may convey the wrong impression to potential clients.

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