TechnoLawyer: Coming Attractions

Coming November 20, 2007 to Answers to Questions: Caren Schwartz provides some tips on using QuickBooks for trust accounting, Thomas F. McDow explains how to make the most of your front and back office software, Paul Mathias shares his experiences with multiple monitors (and we point to nifty solution favored by hedge funds), Charlotte Quiroz discusses the costs associated with Tabs3 and the various training options, and Morris Tabush offers some suggested products for shared calendars (and we provide some suggestions of our own). Don't miss this issue.

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Coming November 16, 2007 to Fat Friday: Paul Easton reviews his Treo 680 and how it compares to BlackBerry and iPhone, Stephen Seldin discusses what he deems the fundamental problem with software, Paul Stanley reviews Password Keeper for BlackBerry Curve, Barry Weintraub has a tip for inexpensively automating estate planning documents, and George Wisely has a bone to pick with a recent TechnoRelease that contained a job opportunity for a lawyer to help build online applications for consumers seeking inexpensive legal services. Don't miss this issue.

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Coming November 15, 2007 to Answers to Questions: David Hudgens discusses the key to managing case-related email, Kerry Hubick explains how he uses Microsoft Access for managing his intellectual property documents, Paul Purdue explains the shipping fees and training options associated with Tabs3, James Crowley recalls how he erased data from numerous hard drives while at CVS Inc., and Sonja Knauft shares her experience switching to a Mac, including practice management software. Don't miss this issue.

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Published Thursdays, Answers to Questions is a weekly newsletter in which TechnoLawyer members answer legal technology and practice management questions submitted by their peers (including you if you join TechnoLawyer). Like all of our newsletters, it's free. Please subscribe now.

Coming November 13, 2007 to TechnoFeature: Thomas Edison once said "Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless." This aphorism may hold true for amorphous inventions like the Web, but not specific products like accounting and billing software. If such a program doesn't work as advertised or as expected, a lawyer's livelihood suffers. Hence, the need for comprehensive reviews like this one in which patent attorney Norman Van Treeck rates Lexis Back Office Powered by PCLaw 9.0. This new version features time tracking, billing and accounts receivable, credit card processing, trust accounting, and much more.

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Coming November 9, 2007 to Fat Friday: Mitchell Herbert explains how to get the best tech support from Dell, Caren Schwartz responds to a recent post about the stability of Time Matters 8, David Garretson provides a few Treo 650 Bluetooth headset tips, David Caracappa adds to Neil's TechnoLawyer Summer Mix with some of his favorite tunes about the law, technology, and more, Rush Wels reveals which word processor has a built-in Rosetta Stone so to speak. Don't miss this issue.

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Coming November 8, 2007 to Answers to Questions: Anthony Elliott reviews the password management tool Password Safe, Harold Noack reviews his experience using Amicus Attorney with PCLaw (plus we provide some additional tips), Katrina Curfiss discusses the three key features of Tabs3 for time and billing, Adobe's Rick Borstein shares some helpful information about Acrobat Professional 8 and email archiving, and Karen Dunson reviews NCH Swift Sound for your digital dictation needs. Don't miss this issue.

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Coming November 6, 2007 to TechnoFeature: Movies, restaurants, cars, software ... all of these products get rated, making it easier for us to decide what to see, where to eat, what to drive, etc. Why should choosing a lawyer be any different? In this article, lawyer and blogger Mazyar Hedayat reviews Avvo, an online service designed to help the average joe choose the perfect lawyer. Most controversial is Avvo's rating system, which prompted a backlash and even some lawsuits when it launched this June. How did it all start? Does it really help? Mazyar answers these questions and more — but only if you promise to jack up his Avvo rating.

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Coming November 2, 2007 to Fat Friday: David O'Connell responds to a recent TechnoFeature about biglaw associate salaries, Kerry Hubick explains how to use Styles and insert Excel files in Microsoft Word, David McConnaughey reviews his experience using a Microsoft ergonomic keyboard and the Logitech Cordless Desktop S510, James Atkins reviews Roboform for password management, and Robert Price shares a tip for scanner paper jams as well as a review of his Xerox Documate 252. Don't miss this issue.

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Coming November 1, 2007 to Answers to Questions: David Hudgens reviews his experience using Time Matters and PCLaw, Michael Gabriel reviews eCopy Desktop for converting PDF files to Word/WordPerfect (and more), John Courtade explains how he uses Pivot Pro to switch from landscape to portrait mode on his multiple monitors, Sanjay Singh provides some tips for managing case-related email in Outlook, and Malcolm Gregson reviews Legalmaster for time-billing and user-defined case management. Don't miss this issue.

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Published Thursdays, Answers to Questions is a weekly newsletter in which TechnoLawyer members answer legal technology and practice management questions submitted by their peers (including you if you join TechnoLawyer). Like all of our newsletters, it's free. Please subscribe now.

Coming October 30, 2007 to TechnoFeature: Years ago, discovery involved a very well-known item — paper. Today, discovery encompasses much more than paper so a litigation team needs to adopt a multifaceted approach as they adapt to this ever-changing world. Fortunately, George Socha and Tom Gelbmann's landmark Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) lays out the major steps in eDiscovery. But what do these steps mean in terms of the day-to-day grind for Joe or Jane Litigator? For help we turn to trial attorney and legal technologist Bruce Olson who has written what we think will become a much-discussed three-part series on the most important components of Socha-Gelbmann's EDRM. First, he covered Collection and Processing. In the second article, he tackled the review process. In today's final installment, Bruce discusses analysis and production.

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