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(Top photo) L-R: Charles Toy, Associate Dean, Career & Professional Development Office, Cooley Law School; Diane Ebersole, Practice Management Advisor, State Bar of Michigan; Vickie Eggers, Director of Center for Instructional Support and Distance Education, Cooley Law School; JoAnn Hathaway, Practice Management Advisor, State Bar of Michigan at the January 25th Cooley Law School "Law Practice Technology Essentials" Seminar. (Bottom photo) Cooley Law School students attend the "Law Practice Technology Essentials" Seminar. Listen to the podcast. See the Ingham County Legal News story.

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The 2012 Solo and Small Firm Legal Technology

By Michael C. Maschke, Sharon D. Nelson, and John W. Simek

Lending Library Number: 158

This annual guide is the only one of its kind written to help solo and small firm lawyers find the best technology for their dollar. You'll find the most current information and recommendations on computers, servers, networking equipment, legal software, printers, security products, smartphones, the iPad and anything else a law office might need. It's written in clear, easily understandable language to make implementation easier if you choose to do it yourself, or you can use it in conjunction with your IT consultant. Either way, you'll learn how to make technology work for you.

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Practice Management Tip | Archive
Smart Phone Dictation—5/9/12

Optimize your smart phone efficiency by installing and using a smart phone dictation application. These applications do more than enable digital dictation—they also make it easy to attach your dictated file to an email or send it to an Internet storage location like Dropbox. Using either of these options, your transcription assistant has easy access to the digital file. The file can also be processed by a digital transcription application.

Some of the most popular digital transcription applications are listed here:

Dictamus (iPhone, free and $14.95)
Pocket Dictate (iPhone, iPod, iPad, free)
Voxie Pro Recorder (iPhone, $4.99)
DictaNet Mobile for iPhone ($11.99, control by tilting your phone)
FlexT9 Speak-Trace-Write-Tap (Android, $4.99, 4 input options)
Dictadroid (Android, free and $1.99)

Resources
Paperless Office
Paper—Philosophical Pleasures, Practical Pointers

Paperless Perils! from the Michigan Bar Journal

Technology Tools
10 Ways to Build Your Law Firm Profits with Video—Michigan Bar Journal (Jan 2012) PDF

Identifying the Best Practice Management Software—Michigan Bar Journal (Dec 2011) PDF

Getting Rid of Metadata the Easy Way—Michigan Appellate Practice Journal (Fall 2011) PDF

How to Set Up a Law Practice Website—Michigan Bar Journal (Oct 2011) PDF

Time for a Tech Audit? Performing a Technology Audit is a Proactive Way to Keep on Top of Your Technology—Michigan Bar Journal (Jul 2011) PDF

Make Your Life Easier: Free Online Productivity Tools and Resources—Michigan Bar Journal (Jul 2011) PDF

TrialPad for iPad Turns a Toy into a Productivity Tool—Michigan Bar Journal (Jun 2011) PDF

The PDF Gold Standard—Adobe Acrobat X—Michigan Bar Journal (Mar 2011) PDF

10 Tips for Getting Started with Open Source Software—Law Practice Today (2011)

Google Apps: Hot Tips for Putting Google Tools to Work in Your Practice—Law Practice Today (2011)

The Wonders of Windows 7: Is It Time to Upgrade?—Law Practice Today (2011)

Hardware and Software: You Bought It, You've Got It—Now Use It!—Law Practice Today (2011)

How Hard Is Your Tech Dollar Working? The Real Return on Investment PDF

In the Right Persons' Hands: Extranets Start with a Focus on Your People

The Top Ten Causes of Malpractice and How You Can Avoid Them PDF

Wireless Insecurity

Links
Open a 2007 Microsoft Word document in an earlier version of Word

AskSam—Create searchable databases from web pages, PDF’s, texts and Word

C/Net—Information regarding electronics

DigitalLawyer—Selection of legal software links

Law Technology News—Technology guide for your practice

LawyerWare—Legal software applications

Microsoft Windows—Microsoft site explaining how to customize the links bar

Start-Stop Dictation and Transcription Systems—Audio transcription equipment

The Virtual Chase—How established and cutting edge tech tools can help you

Word MVP—Articles, tips, and resources to help tame Word

The Practice Management Resource Center Legal Software Directory contains links to dozens of vendors offering software applications to assist you in the day-to-day management of your practice.

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