Apple’s new Lion operating system has one amazing feature for those who yearn to create and use digital signatures. The free Preview program now makes it possible to create a perfect digital signature using nothing more than your iSight camera, a pen and a piece of paper. Here is a link to a [...]
People ask me about various scanners from time to time. My answer to them is always the same: I haven’t looked at any other scanners besides the Fujitsu 1500 model. That’s the one I have and use. That’s the one that many other lawyers I know have and use, and we all love this scanner. [...]
Last September the New York State Bar Association issued Opinion 842 (link to official site) which addressed the question of ‘cloud storage’ or online storage of client information. In today’s world, where cloud storage is cheap and easy to use, lawyers are increasingly embracing online storage services such as SugarSync and DropBox. The [...]
Last week I flew back to New Orleans from D.C. on Delta, with a connecting flight in Atlanta. The trip was novel in that it was the first time that I’ve ever been able to use my phone as a boarding pass. And it’s a good thing that I didn’t have to print a boarding [...]
If you have a digital signature stamp in Acrobat you can affix your signature to any PDF. Why would you want this? Well, if someone sends you a form to sign you can do that without having to print it out. Saves time and, over the long haul, you might even save a tree or [...]
Adobe Acrobat allows you to create custom stamps. This short video tutorial explains how to create a signature stamp that you can use to sign documents digitally, instead of printing the document out just to sign it. Click on the “play” button to watch the video.
Did you know that, according to the Wall St. Journal, 1 hour a day is wasted in most offices looking for missing information? This factoid is something I frequently mention whenever I’m giving a talk about ‘going paperless.’ Everyone nods their head when I [...]
Being paperless mostly means not keeping things in paper. You might print things out to read them or work with them, but the ‘original’ is not a paper original. That’s the key.
The trick is to move away from relying on paper. There is one thing that you can do that will [...]
