Legal Practice Pro, a great blog by Jay S. Fleischman, has an important post on the use of multiple monitors by attorneys and law firms to increase productivity. Any lawyer who has had me in their office to consult has had to hear my suggestions on getting not only the attorney two monitors, but every…
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GTD For Legal: Capturing and Transforming “Stuff” into Next Action Items
As many of you know, I use RocketMatter as my case management program for my legal practice. Being a solo practitioner who is often moving from place to place, a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution such as RocketMatter greatly enhances my ability to have access to my client data from any location via my…
Case Management for Lawyers
TechnoEsq’s co-Founder Finis Price recently wrote a review for Legal Tech Newsletter of RocketMatter, an online Case Management Service for lawyers, entitled “SaaS Case Management for the Small Firm”. Since the time of the writing of the review, RocketMatter has announced the integration of Tasks in a “Getting Things Done” style system into RocketMatter. SaaS…
Macs in Law Offices (MILO) Chat Weekly – Episode 12
The latest episode of MILO Chat Weekly, episode 12, has been released with one great change, the return of the BlawgFather, Grant Griffiths. Grant is back joining the regular cast of Ben Stevens, Victor Medina and TechnoEsq’s Finis Price. We discuss such great topics as the new Mac hardware including the iPhone 3GS, Macbook line…
MacSpeech Dictate Legal for Lawyers
My good friend and fellow MILOChat Weekly host, Victor Medina, has beaten everyone to the punch and not only gotten his hands on a version of MacSpeech Dictate for Lawyers, but put up a great initial review of the product. The review, temporarily posted at MILOChat Weekly’s new home, Victor is starting what will sure…
Pros and Cons of Web Based Software for Attorneys
With his permission I am reposting my good friend, Ben Steven’s, post from The Mac Lawyer on the Pros and cons of Web Based Software for Attorneys. Ben Stevens, or The Mac Lawyer, as most of you may know him, is an authority on using Macs in a legal practice and is one of the…
Macs in Law Offices (MILO)fest 2009 – Conference for Mac Using Lawyers
If you are a Mac-using attorney (or if you want to become one), then you should attend MILOfest 2009, the Mac-focused conference for attorneys. After weeks of anticipation and speculation, details have just been announced this week about this exciting seminar. I, along with the esteemed “The Mac Lawyer” Ben Stevens, Grant Griffiths and Victor…
Macs in Law Offices (MILO) Chat Podcast Vol. 11
If you’re a lawyer or law firm using Macs, you HAVE to be both a part of MILO (Macs in Law Offices), link to join below, as well as listening to the MILO Chat Podcast. The latest MILO Chat Podcast was released a while ago, but I missed posting it. On this episode, “Bringin’ the…
MacSpeech Dictate 1.5 Review for Lawyers
UPDATE – MacSpeech has just announced Dictate Legal for legal professionals. This application promises improved recognition of legal jargon, better speech recognition for common legal terms (reportedly 30,000 legal terms) and other key features for attoneys. Once we have had a chance to review this product we will post a separate review. As most of…
MacSparky's Presentation Mojo
David Sparks, from MacSparky, has a great post reflecting on the new study commissioned by the International Journal of Innovation and Learning showing the negative effects of PowerPoint presentations on viewers. David is absolutely correct in his observation that it is not PowerPoint which is futile, but the way it is being implemented. As David…