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…

New Year’s resolutions are right around the corner, and so is, ironically, the holiday binge-eating season. We hope 2011′s been a happy and healthy one for ya, and wish 2012 is as well. But how well do you know the basics of attorney health and wellness?

We can’t get enough Evernote here in Legal Productivity-land. We always like to think we take our newfangled ideas from the software business and inject them into the legal biz, but in this case, it was legal peeps who schooled us! On this blog, we’ve talked all about using Evernote to run a paperless law office, and became so hooked [...]

I’ve never been a fan of clutter – something nags me about it on a subconscious level – and it turns out my vibes were right. I didn’t know this until recently, but having too much stuff lying around can cause all sorts of problems, including increased time lost, lack of freedom of thought, feelings of oppression and lack of [...]

“Responsibly Connected” is a seminar I present which deals with how to use technology responsibly. The odd thing is, whenever I present on this topic, people come up to me afterwards and pour their hearts out about how Internet-connectedness has gotten to the point of interfering with the family. I feel like a therapist, not a CLE speaker. So I [...]