A deep dive into speech-to-text dictation. I finally removed the small impediment that was preventing me from fully implementing speech-to-text dictation, and I have realized a quantum leap in efficiency as a result. You owe it to yourself and your clients to take a few minutes to read this article, in order to see the…
Don’t be that Attorney – Ten Ways to Make Yourself Look Foolish
I’ve had this article in mind for quite some time. I see attorneys make the same mistakes over and over, and I thought by posting an article listing those mistakes, I would have a place to send them to explain, in the nicest possible terms, that they are making themselves look like idiots. The article…
Why this Lawyer Loves His Apple Watch — Top 9 Favorite Benefits
I seem to have this need to date myself, but I will confess that my love affair with smart watches actually started back in the 1990s, with my Seiko Message Watch (shown above). It was basically a pager, but it could show text messages from my office and family, along with stock prices, sports scores,…
Law Office Software of the Month – Microsoft’s Mouse Without Borders
There are times, usually when I encounter some amazing software or incredible piece of technology, that I think The Matrix got it right. We are all suspended in goo somewhere, and what we perceive as reality is merely a computer construct. Okay, perhaps I’m overstating the case, but when I first used Microsoft’s Mouse Without…
How Content Marketing and SEO Overlap
“Content marketing has seen a surge in popularity in recent years. This often prompts the tired old claim that SEO is dead of course. It isn’t, but it has had to adapt and evolve to suit the modern web just as other disciplines – such as web design – have had to. Now, good SEO…
Best Client Call of the Week
My websites all have contact forms, so that prospective clients can email me a question. The forms require that the prospective client provide an email address and/or a telephone number. How else would I contact them? So, I received an email from a visitor to one of my websites (let’s call her Jane), and I…
Quick Tips: Replacing a Computer with Almost No Downtime
At least for me, when a computer dies, the biggest pain in the keister is not the cost of a new unit, but the much greater expense in terms of time spent installing all the necessary programs and drivers to get it back on par with the computer it is replacing. Inevitably I pull out…
Just for Fun – How to Use WordPerfect DOS
I happened across this WordPerfect DOS video from 1985, and wanted to share. It occurred to me that some may not even have experienced working with a DOS word processing program, and others might enjoy the trip down memory lane. I admit to saying, “oh yeah, now I remember, THAT’S how we created documents.” The…
An Amazing Way to Proofread your Legal Documents
It’s probably a leftover from my days on law review and later as a magazine editor, but I cannot stand to see typos, whether I created the document or not. Especially bad is when I call up a document I have used previously to, say, draft a demurrer, and I find a typo, meaning that…
Don’t Be That Attorney — Misstating Record on Appeal
As reported elsewhere, we received a very satisfying verdict of more than $1.5 million resulting from a defamatory email sent by a defendant, concerning our client. The defendant did not go silently into the good night, and appealed the verdict, claiming that there was insufficient evidence to support an award of that size. That’s all…