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New Job: Only Mac In The Shop
Posted by EsquireMac in Law Practice Management, Switching, iPhone/iPod Touch on Sep 26th, 2009 | 0 comments
Last month, I started a new job at a new firm. I spent nearly three years at my old firm, and most of what I have written on this blog to date has been related to my experiences there.
If you read my Personal Update last fall, you know that last year I moved back to the town where I grew up – Hagerstown, Maryland. Long story short: The 3.5 hours of driving every day got old and a position at a well respected Hagerstown firm opened up due to one of its (now former) partners being appointed judge.
The new firm runs on a Windows 2003 Exchange Server, and my early-2008 MacBook Pro is the only Mac...
Excel and Numbers Templates for Attorney Billing Timesheets
Posted by EsquireMac in Law Practice Management on May 5th, 2009 | 7 comments
I do a fair amount of billable hour work in my practice. Over the years, I’ve developed a fairly simple but flexible spreadsheet for tracking my billable time. For our firm, this represents the ideal solution at present. I have taken a liking to a few different Mac billing apps out there (like Billings, Involer, Invoice, GrandTotal, and iRatchet) but each of them falls short in one way or another for our purposes. I would encourage you to give them a try, however, as your needs might be different than ours.
Early on, I would write my time down here and there, and at the end of the month, I would...
OmniFocus, Things: You’re On The Hit List
Posted by EsquireMac in Applications, Law Practice Management, iPhone/iPod Touch on Dec 22nd, 2008 | 14 comments
There’s a new player on the field in the game of awesome-GTD-apps-for-the-Mac-…uh…-ball. It’s called The Hit List, and it’s made by the Potion Factory – the same folks who brought you Tangerine! and Voice Candy. I learned about this exciting new app from this article atThe Unofficial Apple Weblog. Not being able to control myself, I immediately applied for the private beta, promising Andy Kim, the developer, that I would put it through its paces and give him some feedback. Later that same night, I received my invitation and downloaded it immediately.
The beta...
FileMaker Releases Bento 2
Posted by EsquireMac in Applications, Courtroom Apps, Law Practice Management on Oct 14th, 2008 | 1 comment
For those of you who are interested, FileMaker has just released v2.0 of its simplified organizational tool, Bento.
I have toyed with Bento v1 in the past, but I never gave a serious attempt to organize our practice with it. This is a product that seems to have a lot of promise – but, at the same time, seems very time consuming to set up.
FileMaker’s “Top Ten List” of new features:
New! Apple Mail integration – Get instant access to related messages
Link Apple Mail email messages, notes and RSS articles directly to information stored in Bento with a simple drag and...
I have a thing for Things
Posted by EsquireMac in Applications, Law Practice Management, Syncing, iPhone/iPod Touch on Aug 22nd, 2008 | 7 comments
Until very recently, I have not been a fan of GTD applications. Frankly, I resisted learning anything about David Allen’s widely celebrated methodology for getting things done. In my quest for a law practice management solution, however, I have tried out a lot of GTD type applications.
Recently, I have become a convert, and, although I have never read David Allen’s book, I have become convinced by some of the most rudimentary elements of his methodology (capture tasks, assign them to a context, assign them to a project, and move on)
One day, several weeks ago, I inexplicably became obsessed...
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