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Try it for Free ? New Service connects Lawyers and Journalists

Posted on July 10, 2009
Paramjit L. Mahli and The Sun Communication Grouphave introduced theSCG PR Network for Attorneys and is offering a free one-month trial of its Amethyst level membership through July 31, 2009 to connect lawyers with journalists looking for commentary.

Best Practices in Blog Design: Designing the new Compujurist.

Posted on July 09, 2009
Designing (or re-designing) your blog can be a daunting task even for an experienced blogger. Here are some of the things I learned in redesigning Compujurist.

Power on the Go: Ecosol POWERSTICK - Don?t run out of power when you need it most.

Posted on June 26, 2009
My friend Courtney Kennady, Practice Management Advisor of the South Carolina Bar Association, recently shared with her fellow PMA's a link to David Pogue's June 25, 2009 article What?s in Pogue?s Travel Bag? . In this article, David discusses what he keeps in his bag when he is traveling...

Power on the Go: Ecosol POWERSTICK ? Don?t run out of power when you need it most.

Posted on June 26, 2009
My friend Courtney Kennady, Practice Management Advisor of the South Carolina Bar Association, recently shared with her fellow PMA's a link to David Pogue's June 25, 2009 article What?s in Pogue?s Travel Bag? . In this article, David discusses what he keeps in his bag when he is traveling...

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How to Close a Word 2007 Document without closing Word

Posted on June 25, 2009
I've come to really like Word 2007 and the other Office 2007 applications. While the Ribbon toolbar took some getting used to, I know find it to be much more intuitive than the old Word toolbar. For those having difficulty or are afraid to upgrade to Office 2007 because of the Ribbon don't be dissuaded: think of it this way - we spent years being trained by Microsoft to use their old non-intuitive toolbar, with Word 2007 we have to 'unlearn' these bad habits.

This is one Worm that the Twitterverse doesn?t want to catch.

Posted on June 01, 2009
As Twitter becomes more popular with lawyers ( or anyone else for that matter), it becomes a larger target for people with malicious intent to use for their own nefarious purposes. The latest round of attacks has been occurring in the form of a worm which attacks when users click the shortened URLs in a Tweet.

CrossLoop Spreads the Love ? Announcing CrossLoop for the Mac

Posted on May 27, 2009
With CrossLoop available for both the PC and Mac, you now have an easy to us,e cross platform support program that's free, but which can also help you get professional assitance if you need it.

Red Gorilla Redux? Why you need to select your online storage company carefully.

Posted on May 20, 2009
The article discusses how some of the glamour may be wearing off the cloud storage mania of recent times. For many of us, this is like Deja Vu with what happend with many ASP's in the Dot.Com bust in the early years of this century, with the poster child being Red Gorilla.

Resources to help you in these tough economic times from the ABA

Posted on May 11, 2009
The American Bar Association has created a website for lawyers titled Economic Recovery Resources which provide information on resources and benefits for lawyers struggling in today's economy.

Resources to help you in these tough economic times from the ABA

Posted on May 11, 2009
The American Bar Association has created a website for lawyers titled Economic Recovery Resources which provide information on resources and benefits for lawyers struggling in today’s economy. According to a recent ABA email they include: Job Searching/Networking Career Transitioning Professional Development Practice Management Stress Management Savings, Insurance and Complimentary Programming/CLE Hot Recession Topics Non-ABA Resources In addition to these resources, the ABA has also [...

Track the Swine Flu Outbreak in the US on Google

Posted on April 28, 2009
Are you getting ready to rtavel for a deposition or meeeting? Perhaps have a planned vacation approaching? The Swine Flu out break has folks concerned all over he world. Lawyers are on of the groups that often travel for their work and so should be concerned if tgravelling to one of the affected areas...

Track the Swine Flu Outbreak in the US on Google

Posted on April 28, 2009
Are you getting ready to rtavel for a deposition or meeeting? Perhaps have a planned vacation approaching? The Swine Flu out break has folks concerned all over he world. Lawyers are on of the groups that often travel for their work and so should be concerned if tgravelling to one of the affected areas...

Conference calls ? kick it up a notch!

Posted on April 15, 2009
Seth Godin posted about Reinventing the Conference Call on his blog recently and discussed the issues he has with the traditional conference calls. Seth thinks that there should be a chat room in addition to the conference call to encourage participation...

Conference calls - kick it up a notch!

Posted on April 14, 2009
Seth Godin posted about Reinventing the Conference Call on his blog recently and discussed the issues he has with the traditional conference call. Seth thinks that there should be a chat room in additon to the conferfence call to encourage participation...

Why should a lawyer care about Virtual Machines?

Posted on April 13, 2009
When it comes to technology, lawyers are often the last to take notice of changes that may be able to help them in their practices. This isn't due to any deficiency on their part, but rather to a lack of knowledge of what's happening in technology around them as a result of their profession...

Do you Feel a Twitch to Tweet?

Posted on April 08, 2009
Twitter has been described as micro blogging and now by my friend Jim Calloway as Megatexting in his recent article Twitter: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Jim's article is a counterpoint to one from the Oklahoma Bar Association' Web Services Coordinator Morgan Estes titled The OBA?s on Twitter! which combined form To Tweet, or Not To Tweet?

Help on MS Word from a Wisconsin Lawyer and Word User

Posted on April 08, 2009
Who knew that Wisconsin has a MS Word FAQ and links to resources compiled by Madison Criminal defense attorney Attorney Charles Kenyon right here in Madison? Thanks to the folks at Technolawyer a lot of us now know that Charles has put together this list of resources, links and updated guides for using Word.

LexConference TECHSHOW 2009 Videos are Up

Posted on April 07, 2009
See interviews of myself and Laura Calloway, the Director of the Alabama State Bar's Practice Management Assistance Program and 2009 ABA TECHSHOW Chair.

Compujurist makes TECHSHOW 2009 60 Sites List!

Posted on April 06, 2009
TECHSHOW 2009 came to a close on Saturday April 4 with the standing room only 60 Sites in 60 Minutes closing session. I had arrived ealry and had my netbook running to Tweet about the session and check on recommended sites as they came up. Imagine my surprise when I looked up and saw Compujurist on the huge screens on both sides of the room.

TECHSHOW 2009 Opens its Doors

Posted on April 02, 2009
TECHSHOW 2009 officially started this morning and if attendenace is down, its difficult to tell. I started the day of with my friend Britt Lorish Knuttgen of Automated Horizons on Hardcore Scanning for Law Offices of ANY Size as part of the Paperless Practice Track...

Keyboard/Scanner combo may be just what you need.

Posted on March 31, 2009
Scanning documents is invaluable in reducing the amount of paper that firms must maintain, not to mention how it improves lawyers? access to that information. However, while large multifunction copiers with scanning capabilities are being used in document centers in more and more offices, for many law practices maximum efficiency can be found by using desktop scanners at individual workstations instead...

Technology Loves me, It Loves Me Not!

Posted on March 10, 2009
Many lawyers seem to have a love - hate relationship with their technology: when it works like it is supposed to, we love it, but when it prevents us from getting a brief done or acts up in other ways we hate it.

Cover Your Assets: CrossLoop - Affordable IT Support for Small Practices?

Posted on March 03, 2009

Can I send confidential emails by Gmail? You can in New York.

Posted on February 24, 2009
May a lawyer use an e-mail service provider that scans e-mails by computer for keywords and then sends or displays instantaneously (to the side of the e-mails in question) computer-generated advertisements to users of the service based on the e-mail communications?

ABA TECHSHOW 2009:I?ll be there - will You?

Posted on February 17, 2009
The 2009 ABA TECHSHOW April 2 - 4, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois is rapidly approaching and so is the time to take advantage of early bird discounts!

What?s that sound coming from my Hard Drive?

Posted on February 03, 2009
If you've ever had a hard drive die, lock up or act strangely and start making noises and wondered what the noise meant you now have a resource to find out.

Get More out of a Google Search.

Posted on January 15, 2009
Google is a great tool and has a lot of features that, if we took the time to read the documentation, we could find and learn on our own. However, as is too often the case, that would require time we generally don't have so we usually only scratch the surface of its capailities without someone else pointing out features or tips and tricks...

There?s No Cure for Stupid - How Failing to Backup Killed JournalSpace

Posted on January 02, 2009
Seems the folks at JournalSpace, the popular blog hosting site, failed to pay attention to common backup strategies and best practices and didn't have ANY BACKUPS. That's right folks, none, nada, zip, zilch. Instead, they relied on a set of drives mirrored (RAID 1) on a server running OS X server.

All CLient IOLTA Funds protected under FDIC Rules

Posted on December 30, 2008
The FDIC announced in November that client funds deposited into an IOLTA account are fully protected irregardless of the amount deposited. Read FDIC rules in IOLTA Protection from the ABA for more details.

How to Create a Word 2007 Macro to Insert the Path File Name Anywhere in a Word Doc

Posted on December 22, 2008
Word 207 has made a lot of things easier and you can easily insert the file path and name into the header and footer of a Word 2007 document with a number of keystrokes. However, you can create a macro to insert the path and file name anywhere in the Word document, not just the header and footer.

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