Legal Technology

A law practice management software system can be the principal organizing feature of your law firm, a full-scale repository and collaboration tool and a hedge against malpractice. But, with so many options available, how do you choose the one ...

The ABA’s National Solo & Small Firm Conference, held October 20-23 in Denver, offered a huge range of CLE (more than 50 hours’ worth) for busy lawyers. For this week’s Five, we asked Jim Calloway, director of the Oklahoma ...

It’s 3 a.m. on a wet Sunday morning and Micheal O’Shea is a worried man. Fifteen minutes ago he was breathalyzed by the road traffic police on the drive home from his sister’s 40th birthday party and, well, he might have had one or two too many. ...

Part of making Microsoft Office work better for you involves tweaking key settings. Trouble is, finding which settings can make your life a little easier is like finding the proverbial needle in a haystack. Here are four you should consider checking.

It's true. Our devices sure have improved our productivity: dictating, navigating and researching on the fly with our smartphones and wowing folks in meetings with iPad touch screens. But let's be perfectly clear: It's the nifty non-essentials ...

I was sitting in the middle of, quite possibly, the biggest trial of my firm’s history. The liability was golden. It was just a matter of how much we were going to win. To be specific, I was sitting in the middle of the courtroom. ...

So how do you stay visible on the web and offer good content to your social networks? I've begun experimenting with "curating"—a form of social news aggregation—to create The LPS Reader, a newsletter of my handpicked, top 10 favorite posts of ...

I spend a fair amount of time watching my nephews and niece, ages six, four and two, respectively. They tend to cycle through the kids’ shows, but there’s one they keep going back to, time and again: The Wonder Pets. I know. At ...

If you're feeling a little goofy about just how deeply in love you are with your nifty new tablet, don't be. Even the hardcore techies are a bit over the moon about the changes it's making in their work and lifestyles. Just to prove our point, ...

Mobility is a bedrock consideration for modern business practice, including the practice of law. But today’s mobile tool kit may be incomplete without a portable scanner, that will allow you to roam free, and paperless, wherever you happen to be.