Lawyer Productivity

Creating legal documents can be something like playing with Legos. How so, you might ask? Well, typically lawyers assemble new and individualized documents—contracts, briefs, opinions—by plugging together existing sentences and paragraphs from a ...

Let’s face it—redacting documents has never been a lot of fun. In terms of something to look forward to, it probably falls just above getting a root canal. But with new technology, there are ways to make it easier, if not more enjoyable. Using ...

Since it’s often a less hectic time for professionals, given the proliferation of vacation days being spent, summer is usually a season for getting re-centered. It's an especially good time for entrepreneurs, like attorneys, to work on ...

One reason lawyers buy iPads is to work productively away from the office. When it comes to editing legal documents, however, any time saved by working on an iPad may have to be spent, and then some, to repair the damage done by various document ...

No, I’m not going to talk about "raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens," although I do feel the raindrops on roses thing has a lot going for it. But I am going to talk about are a few of my favorite computer things—things that make my ...

One of the fastest ways to improve your typing on the iPad's on-screen keyboard is to take advantage of the shortcuts feature introduced in iOS 5. The shortcuts feature works like Autocorrect’s non-evil twin, turning your abbreviations into ...

In their best-selling book Time Management for Attorneys: A Lawyer’s Guide to Decreasing Stress, Eliminating Interruptions & Getting Home on Time, Shawn McNalis and Mark Powers offer strategies to manage your most scarce resource. Here, ...

For better or worse, I've been a dedicated BlackBerry user for many years, more recently using a BlackBerry Bold and currently a BlackBerry Torch (9800). As with most smartphones, you can do much more with your BlackBerry by learning a few extra ...

You know your tech support folks love you. We really, really do. But sometimes…. Yes, sometimes we do go back to our offices, close the door gently and weep quietly at the thought of how much more quickly and efficiently we could have helped you ...

Whether it's a special trip to meet a client or your daily commute, there's no doubt your travels will be sprinkled with 15-plus-minute periods of “bonus time.” Flight or traffic delays, late clients or other unexpected agenda disruptions that ...