I saw this late last night, a post by Ron over at Strategic Legal Technology in response to a LexisNexis survey: Inside Counsel (April 2008) reports on a LexisNexis survey on information overload by professionals: ?77% of legal professionals? cite a clack of sufficient information technology tools to cope with the ever-increasing information burden.” Law…
I know, I know, it was just a few days ago that I wondered if I could go back to just working at the help desk after sitting in the session about ethics in e-discovery. Truth is, even there, I was subject to more stringent ethical rules simply by virtue of working at a law…
Automated Documents Barron Henley and Allan MacKenzie Barron: Quit using copy/paste and search replace to create documents! You copy over errors into all your documents. Most of the people, who consider themselves power users, don’t use word processing software effectively at all. Movement away from per hour billing to flat fee means you need to…
I had just started to see some mentions of the American Bar Association’s TechShow 2008 in Chicago in March this week, and on Thursday I found out that I was being sent there myself, which is pretty cool. I didn’t know how cool until I came across a partial listing of bloggers who will be…
I haven’t worked in the legal industry for very long, but I am familiar with the ethical practice of not double billing your time. For example, if you are typing an email to one client, while one the phone with another, you can’t bill them both for that time. Naturally, that’s to encourage you to…
I think I’ve mentioned before that I use the free version of Evernote at work, because I don’t have access to Onenote like I do at home. I’ve even talked about the time tracking template that someone had built that I have been using to make quick notes of work that I need to bill…