Category Archives: Attorneys & Technology

Tip of the Week: Highlight Your Events with Google Tools

Here is a link to an explanation and video of how to use Google’s webmaster tools to highlight your events with their structured data tool that will promote your events from within Google search results.  This will allow people to … Continue reading

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Tip of the Week: Work on Your Technology Competence

One of the key takeaways from the ABA’s Ethics 20/20 effort is the importance for attorneys to make reasonable efforts to stay abreast of technology that impacts their practice.  What does this mean?  While attending MCLE on technology topics is … Continue reading

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Are You Ready for the ABA’s New Competency Rules for Lawyers?

The American Bar Association’s Commission on Ethics 20/20 has issued new model rules covering attorney competency, duty of confidentiality and communication.  The one I want to focus on today is the competency issue. I have discussed this issue frequently here … Continue reading

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Lawyers: Podcasting Is an Alternative to Video

Behavior on the Internet like human behavior everywhere is big on chasing the shiny new bauble.  Recently that has been video.  Everyone has to do videos.  I too have been promoting video.  It provides great visibility and helps people get … Continue reading

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Attorneys Can’t Bury Their Heads in the Tech Sand

This article about the attorneys and technology prompted me to think about Facebook’s impending IPO.  Facebook is just one example of a huge new business with big economic impact that are appearing out of nowhere and they demand everyone in … Continue reading

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Cal Bar e-circles: Pull the Plug

I went to renew my membership with the California State Bar today and decided to visit the e-circles which is the Bar’s online social networking platform.  I’ve written about this before and commented on how there was nothing compelling about … Continue reading

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Dropbox for Lawyers

There are new technologies that I assertively seek out and there are those that find me like stray cats showing up on my doorstep forcing me to give them attention.  Dropbox is one of the latter. What is DropBox? This … Continue reading

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Technology Challenges Lawyers’ Duty of Competence

As technology falls increasingly under the control of the user, this impacts lawyers in a big way.  Client confidentiality, eDiscovery, advertising rules, preparing clients for discovery are just some of the issues closely intertwined with the use of technology. California … Continue reading

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