Automate Your Practice with Microsoft Outlook Quickparts [Video]
We spend a lot of time writing emails. Automation can save some of this valuable time. Here's how lawyers can use Quickparts in Outlook.
For What It’s Worth: Considering the Upsell
One does not simply buy a product in 2015. As our society has advanced in its complexity, products, even niche products, are fitted for specific uses. That’s why there are umpteen dozen versions of Tide -- though, I do appreciate…
Block Letters: Time Management for Lawyers, Part 6: Handling Large Projects
Well, this is it: the final installment of our time management series. (Read parts one, two, three, four, and five, if you want to catch up.) It’s been real; but, it had to end sometime; and, this is the end…
Block Letters: Time Management for Lawyers, Part 3: Technology Solutions
In Part 1 in our series on time management, we covered some basic solutions. In Part 2, we addressed some email management techniques. Now, we’ll consider a variety of technology solutions that will answer for tracking your time, saving your…
Gee, Mail, Thanks!: Three Google Email Attachments
#459105382 / gettyimages.com Given the vast array of law practice technology options, as well as the further multitudes of office technology used in law firms, it’s no wonder that no two law offices share the same, exact technology rig --…
Block Letters: Time Management for Lawyers, Part 2: Email Management
In Part 1 of our series on time management, we outlined some basic solutions for improving efficiency. In this second part of our series, we will focus on email management. Email is the root of most of our time management…
Block Letters: Time Management for Lawyers, Part 1: Basic Solutions
Life is a continuing struggle for additional time. Not that we can ‘add time’ to our terranean existence. The best we can do is to use the time we are allotted more wisely; and, in the business context, that means…
Automate Your Email with Simple Scheduling Tools
“Inbox Zero” means keeping your inbox empty or nearly empty at all times, thus reducing distraction and increasing efficiency. A key rule is that if you can respond to an email in less than two minutes, then do it immediately…
Outlook Tip: Finding Unread Mail
Regardless of the different techniques and services you might use to manage your Outlook Inbox, there will come a day when you amass too many messages in your Inbox and thereby lose track of your unread messages. When that happens,…
Surface Tension: Microsoft’s Tablet is No Match for the iPad
I consider myself an agnostic, as battles get fought between the ultimate utility of Apple versus Microsoft products. I use Windows products at work, and have a PC laptop at home; but, I also have an iPad (and have had…