LegalTalkNetwork

MARCH 2, 2017

If you find yourself struggling–or know another lawyer who is–what resources are out there? Whether it is from a coffee shop, home office, or library, more people than ever are working remotely. Clio Cloud 2015: Work-Life Balance for Lawyers with Jeena Cho. Home Tech vs Work Tech: Managing the Intersection.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MARCH 11, 2022

Many paralegals have now migrated to the work-from-home status permanently or part-time. Many paralegals have also experienced “burnout” due to the pressures of the times while lacking some tools to sustain productivity and efficiency in our newly set up home offices. Edit with your lawyers and peers. Google Docs.

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Attorney at Work

APRIL 26, 2022

Slowly but surely, many lawyers give up their outside interests as they become singularly focused on work. That’s not surprising — being a lawyer is a demanding job. Lawyers may be getting paid better than ever but are time-poor, and outside interests tend to be among the first things to go when you’re feeling stretched thin.

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LawTechnologyToday

JUNE 23, 2021

ASJ : Although I am not actively practicing law at the moment, in my consulting practice, I work with a lot of lawyers on their intake process. Technology’s role is to help lawyers streamline their intake process and make it work more efficiently. I was working from home and online.

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Blumberg

APRIL 13, 2021

Scanning – Use scanning apps like Abby Fine Scanner, Adobe Scan, Apple Notes, and Evernote Scannable to create a PDF from your smartphone. Scheduling – Use the scheduling features of Microsoft Outlook and Google Calendar to arrange meetings, assign office space, or book conference rooms.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 18, 2021

While the term “virtual” law firm may sound like everyone works 100% remotely, it’s not about where you are working. It’s about how you work together and how you deliver your legal services. First, you want to be able to communicate easily with other lawyers and staff.

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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Create a master list: Check your calendar. Taking your work somewhere new — like a “third place” as recommended by Analog Attorney — can help free your mind to make better decisions. In or out of crisis mode, my best tip for working from home is to shake up your routine and get away from the desk at least once a week.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 20, 2022

Add in client expectations, billable hour requirements, and work-from-home distractions, and it can feel nearly impossible to stay focused on what matters to us. Thankfully, things can and do get better when we live and work with intention. Schedule these tasks in your calendar. What Is Intentionality?

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Rocket Matter

JUNE 28, 2022

Some lawyers may be tempted to go full Perry Mason and try to save the day on their own, but that doesn’t usually end like the TV show. In fact, your law firm suffers if people refuse to work together. The “star talent” means that one lawyer at the firm is valued the most. But that can be easier said than done.

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LawTechnologyToday

JANUARY 5, 2021

In fact, the job of a lawyer actually tends to be one of the most stressful jobs around. For one, legal practitioners can work long hours and will sometimes, due to client obligations, take work home with them. Unfortunately, lawyers tend to take fewer vacation days than professionals in other fields.

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LawTechnologyToday

MAY 10, 2023

What do you consider the most and least secure means of communication available to you from your home office? DS: My home office is run through a secure connection to cloud storage and services. For me, there is no difference between working from home or the office. Just my Outlook calendar.

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ALPS

JANUARY 27, 2021

Terry has been with the Indiana Judges and Lawyers Assistance Program (JLAP) since 2000 and became the Executive Director in 2002. Terry is active with the Indiana State Bar Association and in August 2014 she became the first LAP Director to be appointed Chair of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs.

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 6, 2022

Anticipating client needs has always been a key component of good lawyering. Law Firm Innovation: Accessing patent data, tackling the changing court schedules and following judicial deadline extensions are just a few variables that businesses and lawyers are handling during the global pandemic.

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ALPS

OCTOBER 20, 2021

As we transition to more permanent work-from-home schedules, the lack of supervision and a diminished sense of community could have bigger consequences. In our latest episode, Mark explores a few risky scenarios that have played out recently while lawyers work from home. These are very real concerns.

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LawTechnologyToday

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There was a surge of working from home and virtual working as a result of the pandemic, and many firms may still be operating like that. Project management still shows growth potential as 31% of respondents indicated access to that software this year, up from only 27% in the previous year. Legal-Specific Software.

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MyCase

OCTOBER 3, 2023

You could take an ultra-budget approach that involves networking, fielding phone calls from your personal cell, working from home, and using an existing laptop. Without setting up the right tools and organizing your law firm from day one, administrative tasks can quickly become unmanageable.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 1, 2021

When the pandemic closed offices and forced working from home, we were instantly turned into “Zoomers” without little to no instruction. It’s a free, lightweight Mac app that connects to your calendar and organizes all your Zoom calls (time, topic, link/ID) under one menu bar icon from which you can quickly connect with a click.

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MyCase

MAY 11, 2022

Everyone gives a different explanation—ranging from the pre-recorded phone greetings you hear when you call your pharmacy to the remote worker drafting your Facebook posts to the work-from-home paralegal who onboards newly retained clients. Calendaring. Inbox and calendar management. Inbox management.

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Rocket Matter

JULY 18, 2023

Lawyers who go out on their own usually do so because they want the buck to stop with them. Instead of spending hours at the end of each month gathering receipts, sticky notes, index cards, emails, and phone logs, solo lawyers who use a practice management solution with time-tracking capabilities can create and deliver invoices in minutes.

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ALPS

MAY 31, 2022

I mean, I keep talking about the fact that we have to remember that we were in a pandemic, this wasn’t just about a grand experiment with work from home. They didn’t have to deal with micro inequities as much if they were working from home during this time. they got a break from that.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Do lawyers return to the office or not? Others were blocked out of courts by archaic rules that prevented individuals without lawyers from filing documents electronically. July 28 : Clio acquires the automated court-calendaring company CalendarRules. Do courts fully reopen or not? Do legal conferences return live or not?

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MyCase

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

It’s a law practice management software so that you can really do everything from billing, to client intake, to getting payments and everything in between. Obviously, if you’re working from home or working remotely, you need something to kind of help you out there. Really helpful during these times.

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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Your cubicle used to be your little chunk of the universe, with sticky notes all over the whiteboard, that one calendar with pictures of Turks & Caicos and your favorite coffee cup, left behind when you were sent home for 43 years. In this digital age, thankfully, most of your work is in the cloud. But you’re a lawyer.

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Dennis Kennedy and I also use Teams to facilitate our podcast and bookwriting efforts, and we used Teams to write the latest edition of our book, The Lawyer’s Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies, Work from Home Edition.” DK : Can we all agree that email is not a great all-purpose collaboration tool?

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Do lawyers return to the office or not? Others were blocked out of courts by archaic rules that prevented individuals without lawyers from filing documents electronically. July 28 : Clio acquires the automated court-calendaring company CalendarRules. Do courts fully reopen or not? Do legal conferences return live or not?

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 27, 2021

So, we asked the experts to share some favorite tech tools and tips to help lawyers communicate and collaborate more effectively mid-pandemic — and beyond. Here’s advice from Heidi Alexander, Tom Lambotte, Nerino Petro Jr., Juda Strawczynski (@JStrawczynski) is Director of practicePRO , Lawyers’ Professional Indemnity Co.’s

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ALPS

AUGUST 10, 2022

So things are just really aligning well with both what has transpired, where we’re going, and then focusing on what lies ahead in terms of some big issues that we have to tackle as we think about the wellbeing of lawyers and legal professionals in the profession. You know, career took a different turn, ended up being a defense lawyer.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 24, 2022

So we asked a few practice management and technology experts: What’s your favorite productivity app, hack or even website to help lawyers and legal professionals master the working-remotely thing this year? Brett Burney: Tickling Your To-Dos and Collaborating on Calendars. Or, just set the timer on your phone and start working.

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