TechnoLawyer: Fat Friday

Coming January 27, 2006 to Fat Friday:  Ross Kodner reacts to a recent TechnoFeature about online backup services, Darrell Stewart chimes in on the "prying eyes" debate concerning attorney-client privilege and e-mail, Jerry Pepper shares his personal experience as a lawyer in post-Katrina Louisiana, James Degnan reviews his 15 years of experience with Tabs3/PracticeMaster tech support, and Sam Buckland reviews a new application that makes any PC behave like a Tablet PC. Don't miss this issue.

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Coming January 20, 2006 to Fat Friday: Gregory Deatz reviews OpenOffice in a law firm setting, Mark Sullivan reviews his experience with OnlyMyEmail, spam filtering service, Todd Hill takes a stab at explaining why legal vendors don't provide executive bios on their Web sites, Don Springmeyer provides links to a plethora of calendaring programs for the law office, and Ruth Curcuru shares her list of five essential Web sites. Don't miss this issue.

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Coming January 13, 2005 to Fat Friday: John Webb reviews a little-known Web-based case management system, David Caracappa revisits a previous post with some plug-in suggestions for Firefox and Opera and sounds off on vendor pricing disclosure practices, and John Harris explains how his firm's document naming system works while Daniel Eichorn offers a tip on how to simplify such file naming conventions. Don't miss this issue.

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Coming December 16, 2005 to Fat Friday: Remington Smith suggests a more effective file-naming system, Ross Kodner lets you know how he really feels about Travan tape drives, Diane Hopkins reviews PracticeMaster for e-mail management, William Tait discusses the risks involved for lawyers jumping from PC to Mac, and Jesse Farr writes in with a simple file-naming formula for easy document management. Don't miss this issue.

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Coming December 9, 2005 to Fat Friday: Lawrence Brownlee discusses the potential risks involved with implementing universal wireless networks, Tom Rowe explains why legal vendors don't sell Mac OS versions of their software (but notes one that does), Christian Connell explains why Treo-craving lawyers should steer clear of Cingular, Michael Schley discusses how he achieved a paperless law firm (now if he could just find a good desktop search tool), and Diane Hopkins discusses the advantages of document management software like WORLDOX over traditional file naming systems. Don't miss this issue.

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Coming December 2, 2005 to Fat Friday: Ross Kodner sets the record straight on his controversial comments about some (not most) legal bloggers, Gediminas Bukauskas discusses the main problem with implementing Linux in the law office, Marcus Haywood reviews X1 Desktop Search, William Shilling reviews a legal software product for the Mac (plus what he does to get legal vendors to recognize Mac-heads) as well as providing a review of Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird, and John Gordon explains why Mac users have enjoyed a false sense of security all these years. Don't miss this issue.

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Coming November 18, 2005 to Fat Friday: Gregory Deatz pens an extensive guide to e-mail etiquette (followed by a few wisecracks from our publisher), Ian Manning reviews the Motorola Razr V3 cell phone while Douglas Folk does the same while pining for the Slivr's "candy bar" phone, Nerino Petro reviews his old Motorola StarTac phone and explains why he finally switched to a Treo 650, and Harry Styron shares his experience having a fluorescein angiogram (or at least what he thought was a fluorescein angiogram) — a photographic study of the retina commonly performed on diabetics. Don't miss this issue.

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Coming November 11, 2005 to Fat Friday: Zachary Price provides an in-depth guide to law firm security, Lawrence Brownlee shares his experience using Linux at a law firm while Michael Harnois compares Linux to Windows, Bob Walsh reviews FileCenter for document management and backup, and Andrea Cannavina explains why outsourcing your back office and even some of your legal work could boost your bottom line. Don't miss this issue.

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Coming November 4, 2005 to Fat Friday: John Hall pens a little pep rally for Amicus Attorney users, Charles Awalt vents about the three most prominent problems with technology today, Lester Proctor discusses how he used a three-monitor setup as a solo practitioner (Lester passed away shortly after contributing this Post), Rick Crowsey follows-up on a previous Post to explain the method behind his madness of freezing his laptop hard drive, and David Caracappa reviews the Time Matters AIC Listserver. Don't miss this issue.

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Coming October 28, 2005 to Fat Friday: Lester Proctor discusses how software and training are inherently connected while Bobby Abrams explains why modern software should not require training, Peter Pike and Nicholas Paczkowski review their experiences with Amicus Attorney, and John Gordon reviews case management programs past, present, and future. Sadly, Lester Proctor passed away shortly after contributing to this newsletter. In all, Lester contributed 17 Posts to TechnoLawyer over the years. We express our condolences to his family and friends. Don't miss this issue.

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