Hacks and Cyberware Are Becoming More Commonplace Than Ever. Do You Know How to Safeguard Your Firm And Home Computer?

06 Sunday Nov 2016

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Cybersecurity, Legal Technology

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Seven Rules to Stay Safe Online in a Scary Digital Age, by Larry Port, Legal Productivity

http://bit.ly/2eegLYd

If your nerves haven’t been rattled by the October 21st DNS attacks, they should have been. The hysterical tenor of the US election drowns everything out, but this news was a real doozy. Many sites, including Twitter, Spotify, and AirBnB were inaccessible due to one of the largest denial of service attack ever.

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So given the state of a possible escalating cyberwar, how is an attorney to stay safe? Start by making sure you understand and live by these basic security rules . . . .

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More Ways To Use The Versatility of Evernote.

06 Wednesday Jan 2016

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Evernote, Law Office Management, Legal Technology, Note Taking, Office Procedures, Technology

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How Lawyers Use Evernote, by Tim Baran, Legal Productivity®

http://www.legalproductivity.com/practice-management/evernote-lawyers/

Evernote has so much potential. I have barely scratched the surface. This is a tool I definitely want to use and know more about. -CCE

Evernote is more than a note-taking application. We use it to store ideas, recordings, projects, tasks, images…The list is as comprehensive as we want it to be. Evernote allows us to offload our brain and organize our lives.

And how do lawyers use Evernote? I asked a few Evernote-loving lawyers. Here are their stories.

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Quick Legal Writing Course.

24 Thursday Dec 2015

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Bad Legal Writing, Editing, Grammar, Legal Writing

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Video: A Down and Dirty Writing, Editing and Grammar Course For Lawyers, Gary Kinder, Legal Productivity®

http://www.legalproductivity.com/webinars/video-writing-for-lawyers/

Regardless of how good your legal writing may be, there is always room for improvement. Like anything else, your writing skills improve with practice.

You may not think your writing skills are less than ideal. You may not think it’s a big deal – who cares whether your grammar or punctuation is perfect? Actually, most people, including clients. -CCE

Jury Selection – There’s An App For That.

22 Sunday Mar 2015

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Apps, iPhones, Jury Selection, Legal Technology, Trial Tips and Techniques, Voir Dire

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iPad App: iJuror – Jury Selection at Your Fingertips, by Travis Francis, Legal Productivity

http://tinyurl.com/n5trohp

Gone are the days of using sticky notes and legal pads to assist with voir dire and jury selection. Now from the convenience of your iPad, attorneys are able to track their jury pools and organize notes throughout a trial by downloading iJuror.

iJuror is a jury selection app that helps attorneys select from a jury pool by maintaining juror information and responses during the jury selection process. . . .

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iAnnotate App For iPad — Annotate And Manage With Lots of Tools!

22 Sunday Feb 2015

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Apps, iPad, Legal Technology

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iPad App: iAnnotate – A Powerful PDF Tool for Lawyers, by Travis Francis, Legal Productivity

http://tinyurl.com/mgzommq

iAnnotate is a powerful document mark-up and management app that allows users to annotate, manage and share PDF, DOC, PPT and image files.

With iAnnotate, documents can be synced and imported from Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft SkyDrive or WebDAV, and other iOS apps.

Once downloaded, the app includes numerous annotation tools including pen, highlighter, typewriter, stamp, straight-line, note, underline, strikeout, photo, voice recording, and date stamp. Locating these tools is easy and you can even customize the toolbar to include your most-used tools.

Users are also given the option of saving and syncing their annotations to either the original document or to a copy of the document.

The $9.99 iAnnotate iPad App (also available for Android devices) is particularly useful for lawyers. Jeff Richardson over at iPhone JD notes:

“All federal court pleadings on PACER are in PDF format and many state courts are moving to PDF electronic documents, other counsel frequently send me files in PDF format, when I do legal research I download the cases in PDF format, exhibits are in PDF format…[and iAnnotate] seems to be the most powerful and sophisticated app that I’ve seen for working with PDF files on the iPad.”

Check out also, Using iAnnotate to Review Court Decisions on your iPad: A paperless way to highlight text and take notes, then email or upload into Dropbox.

If you are looking for a powerful, comprehensive tool to annotate and review documents while on the go, iAnnotate is definitely worth the try.

Is Your Cell Phone Secure? Are You Sure?

06 Monday Jan 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Android Phones, Cell Phones, Disaster Preparedness, iPad, iPhones, Law Office Management, Legal Ethics, Legal Technology, Tablets, Technology

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A Mobile Security Checklist for Attorneys, by Larry Port, Legal Productivity

http://tinyurl.com/l7tm97l

While attending a CLE event, have you ever left your laptop unattended? What if someone steals one of your mobile devices from your car or your home — or what if you inadvertently lose it in some way? Can someone else access your privileged client’s data? -CCE

I recently had the honor of writing a piece for ILTA’s Peer to Peer magazine on mobile security and presenting a webinar on the same topic. One piece of research blew me away: in a six-month period in Chicago, over 20 THOUSAND (yes – THOUSAND) cell phones were left in taxis.

Sure, maybe Chicago’s taxi seats are stickier than most, and perhaps the cold forces people into taxis more than in, say, Boca Raton, FL. The point is, you’re apt to lose a phone. And these days, with large amounts of data storage, functionality, and computational power on these things, that spells trouble for attorneys protecting client data.