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Safety Dance: Securing Your Smartphone

Today’s smartphones are millions of times more powerful than the Apollo 11 guidance computers. While they still can’t take us to the moon, these small but mighty computers give us the world of work (and play) in our pockets. How can you apply protections to ensure that your device is properly secured against exposure of confidential client and personal information?…

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Good Backup Is Good Business Continuity

Securing and protecting your firm’s data are essential. Client files, important communications, and valuable work product often exist exclusively in digital format today, and thus a major data loss could have catastrophic professional and ethical ramifications. Whether you are creating a plan for business continuity that contemplates natural disasters, fabricated disasters, pandemics, or other things that go bump in the…

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10 Tech Tips for Bar Leaders

Whether you are a Bar Association leader, active in your bar association, or just like productivity tips for your computer and smartphone, peruse these tips from the recent Bar Leadership Institute 2022 held in Chicago by the ABA Division for Bar Services. When Should I Leave? If you use the Google Maps app you can plot your course, of course….

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Gift Buying Guides for the Lawyers in Your Life

We have been told to purchase gifts early this year due to delayed shipping and supply chain woes. If you have not started purchasing gifts for those on your list, or you have not put together your wish list for those who keep asking, here is a roundup of the gifts for lawyers blog posts out for 2021, plus a…

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Defensive Calendaring

Do you feel like your calendar is under constant bombardment with meetings, events, client consultations and to-dos? Do you know how to effectively leverage electronic calendars such as Google Calendar or Microsoft Outlook to block and tackle for time? Apply some defensive calendaring techniques and tips to effectively coordinate meetings with multiple people, allow people to self-schedule and leverage artificial…

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The Wonderful World of Podcasts

Podcasts are serial audio programs on a vast range of topics that you can subscribe to and listen at your leisure. While you can listen to them on a browser, there are podcasts players that provide more bells and whistles for your mobile device. What podcasts cover practice management topics? What if you want to go from listening to starting…

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Options for Law Office Phone Systems

Whether you are looking to add more remote capabilities, add business texting to your communications mix, incorporate video conferencing or just know that your phone system is running on fumes, there are a lot of choices for phone systems for law offices that can increase stability and provide lots of options. What should a firm look for in these systems?…

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Microsoft 365 and MS Office Resources

Microsoft 365 (fka Office 365) is the subscription model that consists of the MS Office suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote) plus MS Outlook and cloud-based servers (Exchange and SharePoint). The Business Standard version is $12.50 per user per month. That is merely the tip of the iceberg, as the subscription also comes with many other tools like Teams for communication…

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Getting the Most from Your LinkedIn Profile

You may have a LinkedIn profile but have not updated it in a while. You may not actively visit the platform or engage with other users. LinkedIn is not the biggest social network, with 722 million users globally versus Instagram’s 1 billion users, but that doesn’t it mean it isn’t a great place to connect with other lawyers and professionals…

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Power in Your Palm: Microsoft Outlook and Office Apps

If you are a Microsoft 365 user then getting the Outlook and Office app on your smart phone is an easy decision.  Built for what you need from your small screen, these apps provide an amazing amount of functionality, including scanning, signatures, managing your calendar and far more. MS Outlook App Sure, you can get your Outlook emails on the…