Weekly Tech Highlights

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Here are highlights from our Twitter posts for the past two weeks (Sept 7–21), with some additional commentary. Evernote is an amazing tool for gathering and organizing digital information. Lawyers could definitely use it as a tool for handling legal research. The trick to Evernote is getting familiar with it. If you’re interested check out this tutorial on iTunesU. Evernote is free for basic stuff, and only $45/year if you use the advanced features. If you have an iPhone or iPad, here’s a great podcast with recommended iOS apps for $5 or less. They’re not focused on the legal profession, Read More…

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Weekly Tech Highlights

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Here are the highlights from our Twitter posts this week: Tired of copying/pasting into your address book? Here’s a better way. Simple, automatic, reliable, & really useful! How to Remove Hidden Information Using Acrobat X: link Ross Gubmerman grades the readability of the Apple v. Samsung legal briefs: link If you’re the type to meticulously file your emails in various folders in your client, stop: link 10 Highlights from the 2012 Legal Technology Survey Report: link New Orleans lawyers with iPads should sign up for our CLE seminar this Friday, Sept 14th. It’s three hours of CLE credit, including an Read More…

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Visual Persuasion for Lawyers

Presentations

Ernie Svenson recently did a webinar on Visual Persuasion for Lawyers: How to Explain and Engage with Pictures. The written materials for this presentation are located here.

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3 hour CLE seminar on iPads for Lawyers in New Orleans

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Lawyers have adopted iPads with surprising eagerness, but many of them don’t really know how to get the most out of an iPad in their law practice. Dane Ciolino, Jeff Richardson (of iPhoneJD.com fame) and I plan to offer a 3 hour CLE course in mid-September to show New Orleans lawyers the magic tricks for being super-efficient with an iPad. Among the things we’ll cover are: How to avoid security issues & client-confidentiality issues How to view, edit & share documents from an iPad or iPhone How to sign documents, and manipulate PDFs How to gather legal information (caselaw, statutes) Read More…

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Apple announces new changes to mobile OS, and computer OS

Apple

Apple just announced updates to the operating systems for its iOS devices (iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches), as well as the computer operating system (current version called Lion). Let’s take a quick look at the most interesting developments. iOS Version 6 (coming this Fall; many new useful features, and some really interesting ones) Siri upgrade – you can now ask more questions (e.g. who won the last Miami Heat game? What movies are playing at the Metreon?). You can even use Siri to launch applications; this is huge. And Siri will now work with the latest generation iPad. Phone notifications Read More…

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Acrobat X tutorial video | Basic PDF skills

Acrobat

Check out this excellent Acrobat X Pro video (the first in a series of Acrobat X Pro tutorials), where you learn how to convert documents to PDF, apply OCR (Optical Character Recognition), and make basic changes by adding, removing, and rearranging pages within a PDF.

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