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SmallLaw: Can Microsoft Transform You Into a Mobile Lawyer?

By Mazyar Hedayat

Last week TechnoLawyer publisher Neil Squillante suggested mobile lawyering as a topic for my piece this month. Mobile lawyering? Did he mean turning your RV into a law office? Well, not exactly. Microsoft recently announced plans to offer Exchange and SharePoint on a hosted basis. These two server-based applications have become mainstays of large firms, but despite being offered on a hosted basis today by many service providers they have not been embraced to the same degree by small firms. With Microsoft itself getting into the hosting game and with devices like the iPhone 3G and Treo 800 supporting Microsoft's ActiveSync technology, the situation could change. That sounded interesting ... But hardly novel. In fact mobile lawyering was the original legal technology buzzword and as far as I was concerned it still conjures visions of smart-ass first-year law students with sport coats and 24 pound laptops...continue to full post

Full post as published by TechnoLawyer Blog on July 24, 2008 (boomark / email).