Have you ever wondered what you can do to raise your profits in your office without working one more minute per day? Do you realize how much billable time is lost to poor record-keeping? Case Management software has been around for 20 years, but a large percentage of lawyers still keep their time records with [...]
It’s a straight-up fact that you should never accept Turkish delight from a stranger offering it for free. Horrible, horrible things are bound to happen. (I feel like a British person would say ‘horrible’, rather than ‘terrible’. I’ve been conscripted into watching ‘Downton Abbey’ lately; and, I hate it. Back home, we called it DonwtoWn [...]
Millions of corporations, small businesses, solo lawyers, large and small law firms, and federal, state and local governments have “gone Google”—meaning that they have moved from hosting their own e-mail servers (and in some cases calendars and documents) to using Google Apps. Companies that have gone Google range from Konica Minolta and Jaguar to the [...]
Facebook, in a Help page article titled “May I obtain contents of a user’s account from Facebook using a civil subpoena?”<http://linkon.in/XWGVkB>, cites the Stored Communications Act as the reason that “Federal law prohibits Facebook from disclosing user content…in response to a civil subpoena,” stating unequivocally: “Federal law prohibits Facebook from disclosing user content (such as [...]
One of the true gems of ABA TECHSHOW is the EXPO Hall, and without doubt, one of the best uses of your time at ABA TECHSHOW 2013 is to spend some time with the vendors and exhibitors in the EXPO Hall. In my experience as an ABA TECHSHOW attendee, as a ruthless EXPO Hall explorer, as an ABA TECHSHOW [...]
The now infamous Mandiant report exposing one of China’s Cyber Espionage Units certainly got a buzz going on the national media. It seemed to be everywhere. As my friend Jody Westby pointed out in her excellent blog post yesterday, what Mandiant revealed did not come as news to anyone following the dismal trail of data [...]
Affinity Partner, and ABA TECHSHOW 2013 Chair, Britt Lorish Tells You What to Expect Spring is coming and that means only one thing, ABA TECHSHOW is right around the corner. Affinity Consulting is proud to have Partner Britt Lorish as this year’s ABA TECHSHOW Chair and we chatted with her briefly to get some insight [...]
Dragon NaturallySpeaking (DNS) version 12 is a terrific program, but trying to remember all of the commands can be a challenge. Nuance, the maker of DNS has compiled this handy two page Command Cheat Sheet that you can download for free here. And if you are curious about the state of speech recognition on your [...]
Windows 8 represents a radical departure from any operating system you have used previously, with the exception of Windows Phone 7 or 8. The Start button is no more, there is a new Start Screen with a totally new look than the traditional desktop in Windows 7. Even shutting down the system is done in [...]
This year at ABA TECHSHOW, one of the sessions on the Solo and Small Firm Track is a entitled, “The Frugal Law Firm.” A frugal firm is not “the cheap firm,” or the one that cuts corners unnecessarily. The “frugal firm” is an introductory session to explore alternative solutions that can save you big bucks! [...]
