Category: Work
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Traveling with Apple
Psychological studies show that vacation has tremendous health benefits. Broadly speaking, Americans are a vacation deprived people. Having entered the summer months, now is an excellent time to make up your vacation deficit. Being firmly into vacation season, I think it’s a good opportunity to review a couple of travel tips for using your Apple…
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Being Thankful for Fellow Mac-Loving Attorneys
This article originally appeared on the Affinity Consulting November 2013 newsletter on legal technology. Having just wrapped up a week of conferences in Florida, I’m happy to be back home in Ohio. Although, of course, it was pleasant to escape late fall temperatures and spend time in Ft. Lauderdale and Orlando, at Disney World. The…
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Meet Fellow Mac Lawyers
This article originally appeared on the Affinity Consulting August 2013 newsletter on legal technology. In the Beginning Much like Apple’s other businesses, Mac sales have grown remarkably in recent years. At first it was the “halo effect” of folks buying first an iPod and then a Mac. Then came the iPhone and the iPad, both…
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Efficient Mac Lawyering
This article originally appeared on the Affinity Consulting July 2013 newsletter on legal technology. The overall theme for the July newsletter is efficiency in legal practice, with special emphasis on paperless office and time management. In an earlier Mac Corner article I discussed being able to work from anywhere using a program called Byword. This…
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Managing Travel Downtime Effectively
This article originally appeared on the Affinity Consulting June 2013 newsletter on legal technology. As lawyers, we’re busy people. Between meetings, court appearances, and document drafting, we’re often on-the-go. One problem with being busy outside of the office is that work continues to accumulate in the office. Your absence doesn’t halt the flow of “to…
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Tools for Making Mac Presentations Stand Out
This article originally appeared on the Affinity Consulting April 2013 newsletter on legal technology. We’ve all sat through deathly PowerPoint presentations. Several times I’ve sat in a darkened room thinking, “If he’s just going to read his slides, I could do that at home in my pajamas.” I expect that you’ve felt the same at…
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Downtime Efficiency
This article originally appeared on the American Bar Association’s Legal Technology Resource Center Blog on February 12, 2013. As lawyers, we’re busy people. Between meetings, court appearances, and document drafting, we’re often on-the-go. One problem with being busy outside of the office is that work continues to accumulate in the office. Your absence doesn’t halt…