PBA Pairs with Clio

    The Pennsylvania Bar Association and Clio (my favorite law practice management service) have joined together. If you are a PBA member you can get a 10% discount. The PBA link (so you get the discount) is here. I have been using Clio for over a year now and I like it a lot. […]

Review of SuperTooth Buddy Bluetooth Visor Speakerphone

  Leaving aside the stupid name, at under $40, with a high rating on Amazon, I thought that the SuperTooth might be the right choice for me. It wasn’t, but not because of any technical issues, it just doesn’t do quite enough. But if you are looking for something that receives and makes calls, you […]

Email for Solo & Small Firm Practitioners

When I conduct a technology audit, one of the first items that comes up is email. The attorneys and staff are frustrated due to the lack of syncing between emails, calendars, and contacts. For many years solo and small firm attorneys have not had the organizational advantage available to larger firms that could afford an […]

Office 365 – A Quick Explanation

I’m a big fan of Microsoft’s cloud based exchange, offered through the service it calls Office 365. It isn’t perfect, but once you get it set up properly (and overlooking the rule limitation issue I discussed previously) I find it to be an excellent service. Ben Schorr gives a nice summary of the options available […]

Book Recommendation – ABA Solo and Small Firm Legal Technology Guide

Update: The 2013 Version of this book is out.  My review is here.   My colleagues and friends of many years, Sharon Nelson and John Simek wrote a book with Michael Maschke called “Solo and Small Firm Legal Technology Guide – Critical decisions made simple.” The book is put out by the American Bar Association. […]

Is that link safe? Find out before you click.

I appreciate link shorteners. They make it possible to share links on Twitter and easier to share links on other sites and in emails. But, unfortunately, link shorteners are also frequently used to hide spam or malware. Fortunately, there are sites that I can use to check and see if a link is safe. Such […]

Kindle Fire App Sideloading

I have been asked If I could explain in detail how to sideload apps to Amazon’s Kindle Fire. One of the limitations of the Kindle Fire is that you can only download apps from the Amazon App Store. The way around this is to sideload the applications. Sideload means to load applications through a process […]