Practice Tip: Record Audio While Taking Notes

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...
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So, How You Gonna Run Yer Practice on that Fancy Macintosh Computer?

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...
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