Tue, 21 May 2013 19:33:46 PDT

Here's an article that recently appeared from me in the Oklahoma Bar Journal. Ten Improved Fastcase Tools I will confess that Ed Walters, the CEO of Fastcase, gave me a fair amount of assistance in the preparation of this article.... More

Mon, 06 May 2013 14:39:59 PDT

I am pleased to announce that I have a new column in Law Practice Magazine, starting with its May-June 2013 "Professionalism" issue. The column is Practice Management Advice and the first offering is Future-Proofing Your Law Firm. There has been... More

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:32:25 PDT

Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Outlook work together in many nice ways. A great tip for archiving Outlook folders is to right click on them and select "Convert [Folder Name] to Adobe PDF." Then you can have all of those emails... More

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 08:18:02 PDT

Encryption, Privacy and the Dark Side of the Internet was written by Duane Croft, a Norman, Oklahoma lawyer with an engineering background. This Oklahoma Bar Journal article covers encryption in depth, while still being readable for the lawyer with only... More

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:44:20 PDT

Q. How many ministers does it take to change a light bulb? A. It depends on whether the light bulb is really willing to change! The same is true for lawyers and law firms. I've been knee-deep in reviewing materials... More

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:57:51 PDT

I was asked to write a beginner's level feature for lawyers using the iPad. The result is The Basics of the Lawyer’s iPad. Due to website migration activity here at the Oklahoma Bar, I am providing you a PDF of... More

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:12:39 PDT

Well, actually, I'm not out of the country, I have not been robbed and I am still in possession of my passport. No hotel manager is breathing down my neck to pay my bill or else. Most readers smiled when... More

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:42:09 PST

Does the label "The Stress-Free Law Practice" make you think of unicorns, vampires and other mythical things? Many, if not most, lawyers believe that a large amount of stress just goes along with the important matters that law firms are... More

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:03:50 PST

I know "what I'm reading" is not a great title for a blog post. But I've noted a lot of good reading material that I wanted to pass along to you today. Law Society of British Columbia's Cloud Computing Checklist... More

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:59:30 PST

One Oklahoma lawyer has declined to participate in Facebook, in part because of the horror stories about privacy breaches. You would think that would make her safe from inadvertent disclosures of information via Facebook. But think again. This lawyer loves... More

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 13:17:55 PST

Your smart phone will do many things that are far beyond what most people would have associated with a telephone not that long ago. We have so many tech tools and gadgets now that that unintended uses are sometimes more... More

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 09:57:58 PST

Every December I do a Recent Developments in Law Office Management and Technology program for the Oklahoma Bar Association's two-day Recent Developments CLE. For 2012 the big story in legal technology had to be the rapid changes in e-discovery and... More

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:43:28 PST

The articles from "Opening a Law Practice" issue of the Oklahoma Bar Journal, published in October 2012 are now all available online. Enjoy and share this post with others, especially a lawyer or law student who is contemplating setting up... More

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:07:21 PST

Failing Law Schools by Brian Z. Tamanaha was published in June 2012. Among the most startling assertions in that book was that law schools will produce 45,000 new graduates annually while only 25,000 openings for lawyers are projected each year... More