Category Archives: Technology

Creating a Legal Document Scanning System with ScanSnap

So everyone knows we love RocketMatter and Finis uses RocketMatter as his case management system in his personal injury practice. Our friends over at RocketMatter’s blog, which is also a great resource for other technological things for attorneys routinely post about technologies and articles to help the legal professional in his practice. Most [...]

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Another Reason the iPhone is the Lawyer’s Phone

Not a week after finishing the final draft of an article discussing the iPhone’s superiority over phones such as the Droid and Nexus One (basically Android OS phones) for attorneys, an analysis by DisplayMate has revealed the Nexus One’s screen, while offering a higher resolution in icon displays actually lacks the sharpness and correct coloring [...]

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reQall and Evernote – a Virtual Assistant for Attorneys

Perhaps two of the best iPhone applications for attorneys, reQall and Evernote, are working in a partnership which should benefit all attorneys if not all mankind using an iPhone. If you’re not familiar with these apps, you should be and should stop reading this post and immediately download both from the iTunes store and then [...]

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iPhone Unlimited Plans $99.99, If You Ask For It

In an attempt to compete with Verizon’s new unlimited plans and perhaps to make it less enticing for users to jump to Verizon when the anticipated move to Verizon is announced, AT&T has lowered the cost of their unlimited voice and data plan to $99.99 (old price was $129.999) effective Monday, January 18. This is [...]

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Jury Misconduct From Internet Research

We’ve written about the prevalence of this problem before and now it has hit closer to home. A friend of mine, Garry Adams, tried the taser-related death of Larry Noles in federal court a few weeks ago. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the officer who used the Taser on Mr. Noles. Two [...]

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Papershow – Finis Interviewed in Wall Street Journal

We had mentioned Canson’s Papershow in our post back in August 2009 and now Finis has been interviewed for an article in today’s Wall Street Journal on ways small businesses are using technology. This great little piece of technology is basically a digital whiteboard which allows you to draw on paper with a special pen, [...]

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David Sparks on the Future of MacWorld

MacSparky, or David Sparks as his family knows him, has a great post on his thoughts about the future of MacWorld now that Apple will not be attending. His thoughts are insightful, especially given his attendance at MacWorld as not only an attendee but a speaker. Our session is entitled Head on over to his [...]

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BeenVerified – iPhone Background Checks

BeenVerified.com is a service which has been getting a lot of attention in the press lately and they now have an iPhone app!  BeenVerified.com offers background checks which include social media usage, marriage and divorce search, relative search, property valuation and state criminal searches.  The service is far from perfect, but does offer users a [...]

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Finis Presenting at the ABA TechShow 2010

I am proud to announce that I will be presenting at the American Bar Association’s TechShow 2010 in Chicago, IL on March 25 and 26.  If you haven’t been to the ABA TechShow, I highly recommend attending. As readers know, TechnoEsq went to our first TechShow last year and interviewed vendors in the Exhibit Hall, [...]

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ABA Journal’s Top 100 Blawgs Posted

Once again, the ABA Journal has listed the “Top 100 Blawgs” of the year and once again TechnoEsq has not ‘made the cut’. TechnoEsq deserves to the in the Top 100 Blawgs, we covered the ABA TechShow in Chicago last year fending off ABA administration attempts to nix our video interviews of strange and [...]

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