What is the one disaster that your practice will inevitably have to deal with? Not fire, not water damage, and not a hurricane. Rather, you will inevitably suffer the complete failure of a computer hard-drive that contains critical electronic files.…
MS Outlook for Business published a tip on how to automatically add individuals to your safe senders list when you send that person an e-mail. You can thereby avoid having the reply e-mail sent to your Outlook Junk Folder where…
When I review attorneys' document filing systems, I often find that the case documents are not sorted by type, and are not placed in chronological order. Often critical documents are not indexed and tabbed in a manner that allows the…
As I stated in my last post about Google, I use various Google products all the time. The following are additional favorites.iGoogle with tabs (Free). I start with iGoogle because it gives me an integrated, customized location to control the…
I recently attended the American Bar Association's Law Practice Management Section Meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which focused on Living a Life in the Law. A panel discussion by attorneys Jamie Spannhake, Mark Komer, of Santa Fe, Ed Flitton,…
DOING MORE WITH GOOGLEI admit it! iGoogle has taken over my life. Let me tell you why this site is my number one home page. First, we all know its power as a search engine. But, do you know how…
Some attorneys hold that “there is no bad business,” or feel compelled to adhere to the “I-don’t-turn-down-business” imperative in order to keep their practices going. This practice may, however, lead to financial difficulties and/or working long, uncompensated hours. A successful…
Although there is almost always some price to be paid for using free software, either in functionality or annoying advertising, I have found that the following programs provide sufficient benefits to get past the limitations that may exist. Each identified…