Posted by EsquireMac in Applications
on Feb 15th, 2009 | 8 comments
Audio Notes in Microsoft Word
It’s not often that I have something nice to say about Microsoft. That said, Microsoft Word is a pretty top-notch product, if a bit expensive. While I have pretty much abandoned Excel for Numbers, Microsoft Word is still my work horse for drafting correspondence and pleadings. I don’t use anything else in the Office suite of applications; and until Pages enables you to set the default document format as .doc, I will continue to use Word for my law firm documents because, like it or not, the rest of the world uses Word, and therefore .doc. (I will refrain from...
Posted by EsquireMac in Law Practice Management
on Jul 27th, 2008 | 7 comments
One thing every Mac-using lawyer has to ask themselves is what software they’re going to use to manage their practice. Anyone who’s scoured the interwebs for a solution has likely come to the same inescapable conclusion: there’s simply no obvious comprehensive software solution for the Mac-using attorney (or law firm, for that matter).
In my view, at a minimum, a lawyer needs the following functions in a single software solution:
Client/Contact Management
Case/Matter Tracking and Management
Document Management
Calendaring/To Do Tracking (GTD)
Billing
There’s a lot of great...