The legal technology community lost a great friend and leading thinker last week. Finis Price passed away in his home town of Louisville, KY. Litigators: if you didn’t come up against Finis in a courtroom, consider yourself lucky. He had such a mastery of presentation via technology, notably the iPad, that lucrative judgements rained down on his side. I had [...]

Last week we had the pleasure of presenting a webinar to the Maryland State Bar Association on The Ethics of Cloud Computing. I presented the latest information from state bars around the country, and gave a history and vocabulary for cloud topics so we could have a deep, intelligent conversation. Below are some of the resources: ethics opinions from the [...]

I’ll admit – when I first got hold of an iPad it sat in a drawer for months at a time. I just wasn’t that into it. But then I had a eureka moment: I realized that iPads, and tablets and smartphones for that matter, are cloud terminals. They’re access points. They’re like those black and green computer terminals that [...]

Are you the most effective manager you can be? Do you unleash the most productivity from your workforce? I finally got around to reading and article I ripped out of Harbard Business Review from March of last year: it was shuffled from my inbox to a “To Read” file and back a dozen times. Boy am I smacking my forehead [...]

We have many acronyms in the software business, but my favorite relates to a process, not a techno-flavor of the month. It’s the DRY principal, and it stands for Don’t Repeat Yourself. Legal form creation is one area that’s completely ripe for the DRY principal, and until now, there hasn’t been a good option for firms on a limited tech [...]

Yesterday, we discussed how lawyers could improve their law firm productivity and personal well-being by training for a triathlon or 5k, and the positive reaction told us we were on to something. So today, we’re going to stick with the fitness theme for today’s mobile app:  Active.com. Last year in my quest to keep in shape and stay disciplined, the [...]

Lawyers, like other professionals, work better and clear a higher profit when they make better decisions. And you make better decisions when you’re less stressed. And you’re less stressed when you exercise. You also have more energy for work when you kick off the morning with a run or a circuit at the gym. And aside from the productivity and [...]

January is Get Organized Month, declared by the National Association of Professional Organizers (it used to be only a week, but since it takes so long to get organized they made it a month). So we productivity junkies here at Legal Productivity are going to ride this month for all it’s worth.  And we’re kicking things off with a quiz. [...]

Click here to register. * When: Thurs, Dec 15th at 12PM EST * CLE: PENDING * Speaker: Larry Port, CEO and Founding Partner of Rocket Matter Description: If attorneys are going to use cloud computing, what do bar associations have to say in respect to Rule 1.6 governing client confidentiality? While ethics opinions are still forming, early indicators from the [...]

The nominations are in, now it’s your turn to vote! We received a number of great recommendations, including some people so enthusiastic about Westlaw Next that they nominated it dozens of times… from the same IP address…