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Best of 60 TechTips presentation
Posted by Ernest Svenson in Cloud-computing, Digital Signatures, Digital Workflow, Document Assembly, Presentations on February 3, 2012
Yesterday I had the pleasure of doing a 60 tips in 60 Minutes session with several good friends and follow law-techies. Even though I’ve done dozens of these 60 tips programs in the past few years, I always wind up learning something. Here are a few of the most interesting tips I picked up:
- Asana – An online collaborative project management tool, sort of like Basecamp, but free if you have less than 30 team members. This one was recommended by Catherine Reach Sanders (who just moved from the ABA Technology Resource Center to the Chicago Bar Association).
- Pathagoras – a document assembly tool that works with Word for Windows. It’s free to try for 90 days, and from what Jim Calloway described, it’s a powerful tool for transactional lawyers who create variations of form documents and need a tool that makes it easy to do this.
- How to create a Digital ID for using with Adobe Acrobat, which Nerino Petro says is a surefire way to have true digital signatures that actually get accepted by the recipient. I’m going to start using this for sure.
- Let Me Google That For You – I forgot about this one, but it’s a classic. If you’re adept at using Google but find that you get annoyed when people ask you for information that they could just as easily have googled themselves, you need to check it out. I won’t ruin it for you; just go do a sample search and you’ll see what this tool does.
If you want to see all the tips that we did, here’s the link to our presentation.
New lawyers here’s some useful information (and free CLE)
Posted by Ernest Svenson in Presentations, Webinar on January 20, 2012
A few weeks ago I announced that I was shifting from the full-time practice of law to full-time work teaching lawyers how to make better use of technology (with the side-benefit of also offering them CLE credit, in Louisiana at least). Today, let me tell you about one important focal point of this move.
I want to do more to help mentor young lawyers.
Law school education has for a long time failed to provide truly practical information to budding lawyers. This is especially true when it comes to information about how to use technology to do a better job in the practice of law. So folks graduate from law school devoid of any sense of how to use technology.
New lawyers are also devoid of money after they pay all their law school bills.
So, here’s how DigitalWorkflowCLE plans to help. First, we’re going to focus some of our attention on helping new lawyers learn practical skills. And we’re going to do it for free. Our first CLE program of the year will be a one hour webinar on Social Networking for Lawyers, and it will only be offered to Louisiana lawyers who’ve been in practice for three years or less.
The February 3rd webinar is limited to 15 new lawyers. Again, it’s completely free and we provide 1 hour of CLE credit (includes Ethics credit). For other lawyers we’ll be doing the Social Networking seminar a week later, on February 10, but we’ll be charging $30 for the CLE credit (Ethics).
Why is our company called “DigitalWorkflowCLE”?
Posted by Ernest Svenson in Our Company on January 10, 2012
Lawyers need CLE credit and are supposed to learn things that help them do a better job for their clients, and that improve the profession as whole. Increasingly, that means learning how to use technology better. But most CLE is boring and unhelpful. What if it wasn’t, and what if CLE helped lawyers solve some of their most insidious tech problems?
Dane and I have both been practicing law for over 20 years, and we’ve been trying to use technology to do a better job for our clients. We found out a lot of lessons the hard way, but sometimes we found some tools that worked reliably and weren’t hard to learn. We figured other lawyers would want to know some of the things we learned, and so we started doing CLE programs focused on technology in law practice.
Our CLE programs are technology focused, but they’re also practical, informative, and entertaining. Our goal is to make it easier for you to find the useful, reliable technology. We also show you how to incorporate it into your practice, so you can concentrate on being a great lawyer. If you work with digital data (e.g. have a computer, use email, use a smartphone) then you have a “digital workflow.” Why not figure out how to make that digital stuff flow more smoothly, and get CLE credit to boot?
That’s what we do, and that’s why we named the company “DigitalWorkflowCLE.”
Digital Lawyering – Two Day CLE in New Orleans (Dec 28 & 29)
Posted by Ernest Svenson in Uncategorized on December 21, 2011
If you attended our two day seminar on Digital Lawyering (Dec 28th & 29th) click here for the written materials (right click and choose “download as” because it’s a large file and if you just click it will take your browser too long to render it). To see the slides used in the presentation (or similar versions), click on the presentation name. If you didn’t attend, but want to be assured of being notified of such seminars you should subscribe to the weekly newsletter (basically you’ll get an email with all of the blog posts from that week, which is not usually just one or maybe two posts).
Wednesday (Dec 28th)
Digital Case Management
E-Discovery panel (no slides)
Digital Office & Consultants – (no slides)
Thursday (Dec 29th)
Articulate Advocacy
Little Big Firm – Tips for small firm lawyers
Half Day New Orleans CLE Seminar on Paperless Lawyering
Posted by Ernest Svenson in Acrobat, Live CLE Seminars, Paperless lawyering on November 22, 2011
In addition to our two day seminar on more advanced technology information for lawyers, we’re also offering a half-day intro to paperless lawyering. Here’s the schedule. (Click here to sign up)
09:00–10:00 am – Creating a paperless law practice
Creating a paperless practice involves picking the right scanner, and then setting it up for the common, everyday scan jobs. Setting up a reliable file-naming, and storage system is critical, preferably one that allows file access via the Internet. There’s only one “right” scanner, and we’ll tell you what it is.
10:00–11:00 am – Maintaining a paperless practice
Maintaining a paperless practice is about dealing with digital documents. Mostly, it’s about getting proficient at using PDFs, and making notes and highlighting key information. Transitioning away from fax machines and printers is also important. So is creating a digital signature. We’ll show you how.
11:00–12 noon – Workflow & logistical issues
Some workflow issues are different for each firm, and it’s important to tweak those to suit your firm’s particular needs. There is no technology issue that can’t be overcome by someone with sufficient knowledge, but often the stumbling blocks are human nature and psychological. Come with questions; we’ve got answers.
End of the year CLE seminar in New Orleans is now scheduled
Posted by Ernest Svenson in Cloud-computing, Digital Workflow, Ethics, iPad, Live CLE Seminars, Mobile Lawyering, Presentations on November 15, 2011
Our usual end-of-the-year seminar will take place again between Christmas and New Years. Except that this year we’re offering two full days of CLE. You can sign up for one day, or both days (with a discount if you attend both days). And for a short while, we’re offering “Early Bird pricing.”
Seating is limited because we prefer a more intimate setting, as opposed to a large hotel venue. We do our seminars in the large conference room on the first floor of the IP Building at 643 Magazine St. (behind the US Fifth Circuit). The room will hold about 50 people, which is perfect for us.
Dane Ciolino and I will be doing most of the sessions, but we’ll be having some excellent outside speakers as well. Jeff Richardson of iPhoneJD fame will be doing a session on mobile lawyering that will cover the use of tablet devices such as iPads. And Magistrate Judge Sally Shushan from the Eastern District of Louisiana will participate in a panel discussion of common e-discovery issues.
We’ll be doing an email blast in a few days, which should get a lot of attention from folks that may not have typically been to our seminars. So, if the readers of this blog want to reserve a spot they should sign up soon. For more details, and to sign up, click here. If you were there last year you’ll remember we had a lot of fun with giveaways, and this year we plan to ramp up the giveaways. We’re also planning lots of other things to make the experience as enjoyable as possible.
On-Line CLE: Paperless 102–Working with PDFs, CaseMap and Mindmanager
Posted by Dane S. Ciolino in On-Line CLE Seminars on December 16, 2009
We have posted a new on-line CLE video, Paperless 102: Working with PDFs, CaseMap and Mindmanager. This video continues the discussion from Paperless 101 regarding the digital management of documents and information in the practice of law. The program has been preapproved for one (1) hour of Louisiana MCLE credit (including law office practice).
The CLE video covers the following topics:
- working with Portable Document Format files (PDFs), including viewing PDFs, creating PDF files, bookmarking, commenting, using the Typewriter tool, Bates stamping, redaction, and using digital signatures;
- using Lexis/Nexis CaseMap to organize facts and documents, and using various CaseMap features (including displaying fields, filtering records and working with linked files); and,
- using mindmapping and MindManager to organize facts for arguments, depositions and witness examinations.
Preview Video
Interested?
For more information or to register for this CLE, click here: Paperless 102: Working with PDFs, CaseMap and Mindmanager.
For all of our preapproved on-line CLE programs, click here: DigitalWorkflowCLE On-Line CLE.
On-Line CLE: Paperless 101–Ethics and Post-Paper Lawyering
Posted by admin in On-Line CLE Seminars on December 15, 2009
Paperless 101: Ethics and Post-Paper Lawyering is a one-hour, audiovisual, self-study CLE course that discusses the practical and ethical reasons why a lawyer should begin to manage documents digitally rather than with paper files, folders and cabinets. It also introduces the basic principles of digital document management, and digital information management.
Under Louisiana MCLE rules, a Louisiana lawyer may obtained up to 4 hours each year of on-line CLE Credit. This course has been preapproved for one (1) hour of Louisiana MCLE credit (including ethics) effective December 14, 2009.
Preview Video
Interested?
For more information or to register for the course, click here: Paperless 101: Ethics and Post-Paper Lawyering.
Live CLE Seminar on Digital Workflow: Post-Mortem
Posted by admin in Feedback, Live CLE Seminars on November 8, 2009
Thanks to all who attended our December 30, 2009, seminar entitled Digital Workflow for Lawyers. We’ll post information regarding future live and on-line CLE seminars on this site. We’ll also notify all subscribers via email. To view our current on-line video CLE programs, click here: On-Line CLE Programs.
As promised during the December 2009 live seminar, here are some links to service providers and materials mentioned during the course:
Materials
For the materials distributed prior to the seminar (in PDF format), click here: CLE Materials.
People
Website Designer: To contact Andrew Larimer regarding WordPress website design and development, click here.
Practice-Management Software Consultant: To contact Craig Bayer regarding practice management systems and software, click here: Law Office Technology Blog.
iPhone Legal Applications: To contact Jeff Richardson regarding the use of iPhones in practice, click here: iPhoneJD Website.
Tech-Saavy Paralegal: For help with scanning and organizing documents, and creating CaseMap databases of facts, documents and people, email Kim Plonsky by clicking here.
Technology Consultant: For hands-on help transitioning your law office to paperless practice, email Becky Diamante (a/k/a TechyBecky by clicking here.
Dane Ciolino’s Louisiana Legal Ethics Site: www.lalegalethics.org.
Ernie Svenson’s Blog: www.ernietheattorney.net.
Survey
To fill out an evaluation of the program, and to request MCLE credit, click here: CLE Course Evaluation and Request for Credit.
Thanks again to all who attended.
Feedback
— “Highly recommend Digital Workflow CLE. Best CLE I’ve been to in years.” Robert Peyton, New Orleans.
Contact Us
Email: digitalworkflowcle@gmail.com
Phone: (504) 613-4253
