Law Practice Management Tips and Tricks Quick Tips and Tricks
| Publication year | 2017 |
| Pages | 17 |
It is summertime in Kansas, and the temperatures hang out at near the triple-digits. We often take our meals light and simple this time of year, and I am inclined to do the same with the Law Practice Management Tips and Tricks. Here are a few quick bites with links out to some items or issues of note:
Airtable (airtable.com) – Setting up a database from scratch is a daunting task most amateurs are not trained to tackle. Airtable eases the learning curve with simplified tools and valuable templates. Lawyers will want to look at the Legal Case Analysis template in particular. This preconfigured database provides a clean, tabbed interface to all the relevant data in a case. Search, sort, and report on facts, parties, witnesses, evidence, authorities, and tasks. Similar tools have been available from those high-end legal vendors, but Airtable can duplicate many of the features of case analysis software for as little as $0.00 per month.
LegalBoard (legalkeyboards.com) – It might be hard to imagine why a lawyer would need a legal-specific keyboard – until you go searching for the § symbol. The LegalBoard includes a handy § key as well as one-key access to bold, underline, small caps, footnotes, and more. Word gurus can certainly create their own macros to enable a mere mortal's keyboard to duplicate LegalBoard's features but those macros can often be lost or changed when working in a networked environment or after updates. At just $75.00, the LegalBoard is a bit pricier than a generic model from the office store, but the convenience pays for itself within a few briefs. The Legal-Board is safe for non-attorneys as well with a toggle feature to switch it to an ordinary keyboard.
Signal (whispersystems.com) – Leaks are becoming the foremost feature of the current President's administration, and many of those leakers communicate securely with the press using the Signal app from Open Whisper Systems. The free app is available for both Android and iOS and allows users a secure, encrypted means of communicating by text message. Interception and decryption—even by a state actor—appears to be virtually impossible. Most importantly, the app's purveyor has no access to messages, so subpoenas produce nothing. You may not be leaking the TV viewing habits of the 45th, but lawyers and clients often need to communicate quickly and...
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