Category: Technology
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HotDocs Writeup
The new year brings exciting news for HotDocs’ users. HotDocs released version 11 of its development and end-user tools for document automation. Version 11 includes enhancements to usability, development, and document assembly. HotDocs 11 is the first version to support Microsoft Word’s DOCX format. DOCX has been Word’s native document format since 2007. Now HotDocs…
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The Mac Way to Rescue Stranded WordPerfect Documents
This article originally appeared on the Affinity Consulting blog on legal technology. Tools for the Mac-Using Lawyer If you’re a Mac-based lawyer practicing with attorneys who continue to rely on WordPerfect, you’re faced with the fact that no one has made a version of WordPerfect for the Mac since version 3.5, which worked only on…
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The iPad mini Will Be One of the Hottest Gifts this Christmas Season
This article originally appeared on the Affinity Consulting blog on legal technology. Does it have a place in a lawyer’s stocking? The iPad mini is both an incredibly new product and a modest revision of what we already know. It’s incredibly new in that it brings to the 7″ tablet space features unknown in that…
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New Lawyers Need Training
Here’s an interesting article from the ABA website regarding the fact the law schools do a terrible job of training lawyers to practice the business end of law. Now, to be fair, med schools don’t train doctors how to manage their books, judge profit or, God forbid, bill insurance companies. But saying that you’re as…
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HoudahSpot Helps You Find Your Way Through Search, Paperless Strategies, and Document Management
This article originally appeared on the Macs in Law blog. While attending the Mac Power Users session at TechShow in March, renowned Mac-using attorney Randy Juip discussed Spotlight.1 For those of you unfamiliar with Spotlight, it is one of the great reasons to own a Mac. Released with OS X 10.4 Tiger in 2005, it…
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Apple’s Surreptitious Entry into the Mac Docking Station Market
This article originally appeared on the Macs in Law blog. Docking stations have a mixed history on the Mac. From 1992 to 1997, Apple manufactured the PowerBook Duo line and a set of accompanying docking stations. The Duo docks functioned the same as modern PC docking stations and port replicators. They added additional connections and…
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Portable Security for Us All, or Why Steve Gibson is My Hero
This article originally appeared on the Macs in Law blog. We’ve all done it. In fact most of us still do it. You probably did it before you fired up your browser to read this article. You logged onto your computer or network with a mediocre password: your spouse’s name, your child’s birthday, your pet’s…