Top Technology Tools To Streamline Your Law Practice

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Top Technology Tools to Streamline Your Law Practice Niki Black | Director, mycase.com

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1995 Clifford Stoll Mocking futurists | The Internet: Bah! “(Visionaries say) commerce and business will shift from offices and malls to networks and modems-Baloney... (They) predict that we'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Internet. Uh, sure...Do our computer pundits lack all common sense? The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper.” Me Total Geek

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Technology timeline 2006 iPhone first released 2007 Apple app store launched 2010 2005 Amazon ec2 released in private beta 2007 Kindle first released 2008 iPad first released

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How did we get here? confluence of events 1. 3. 2. 1. Improved processing power 2. Cloud computing 3. Mobile computing

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“Mobile devices are constrained by their memory, processing power, and battery life. But combined with cloud computing, data processing and storage can happen outside of mobile devices.” *ieee Computer Society 2014 Tech Trends Report

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Lawyers in the Cloud 16% 21% 31% 2011 2012 2013 a new technology less scary the tipping point

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Lawyers going mobile 38% 91% 48% *2012 & 2013 ABA Legal Technology Surveys

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Tech tool Billing time 1

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Billing on the go legal apps / web-based legal apps / server-based non-legal apps stand alone or LPM integration server-based billing integration stand alone Time59 or LPM apps iTimekeep Timewerks Pro, Timemaster + Billing, Bill4Time,

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Tech tool: Collaboration Tools 2

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Collaboration tools GOOGLE DOCS LPM SYSTEMS FREE WEB-BASED TOOLS TEXT PAID GLASSCUBES TRELLO DROPBOX BOX.NET Legal v. non-legal

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Tech tool: Secure communication 3

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Secure communication SECURE ONLINE PORTALS ENCRYPTED EMAIL EMAIL most secure encrypted, protected, confined to platform more secure forwarded emails lose encryption unsecure like a postcard written in pencil

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Tech tool: Document storage 4

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document storage lpm platforms dropbox & box spider oak & boxcryptor encrypted by company encrypted by company encrypted by user designed for lawyers non-legal non-legal & storage only

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Tech tool: Document scanning 5

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Scanning tools SCANNER PRO IOS APPS SCANNING TOOLS GENIUS SCAN TURBO SCAN KODAK SCANMATE I940 SCANSNAP FUJITSU IX500 NEAT SCANNER HARDWARE See: lawyerist blog http://lawyerist.com/best-scanner/ XEROX MOBILE

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Tech tool: PDF annotation 6

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Pdf viewing and annotation ios apps web-based software desktop software pdf expert group docs adobe acrobat See also: Goodreader, iAnnotate, ReaddleDocs See also: PDFEscape, A.Nnotate, PDFOnlineReader See also: Foxit, Okular

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Tech tool: Legal research 7

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Legal research GOOGLE SCHOLAR & FASTCASE APP CASEMAKER, FASTCASE, LOISLAW, VERSUSLAW CASEMAKER, FASTCASE, LOISLAW, VERSUSLAW WESTLAW & LEXIS free free lower price most expensive but less flexibility with bar participation prices and coverage vary plans vary

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Tech tool: Wearable technology 8

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wearable technology Smartwatches Google Glass

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“The truth is usually just an excuse for a lack of imagination.” -Garak, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

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thanks for listening! Nicole Black Director | MyCase.com | a cloud-based law practice management system www.nicoleblackesq.com @nikiblack on Twitter Author and co-author of:

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