Hot tech for Lawyers – I need your best ideas. . .
We are finishing the Avvocating conference next week with a 20 minute presentation on 20 awesome secrets lawyers can use to make their practice better. This is an end-of-conference format that I’ve seen work very well – the presenter does a rapid-fire one minute walk through of 20 new, cool, interesting, or out-there ideas. The goal is lots of ideas, little depth. I have 21 items already on the list, but I’d love to put them up against some suggestions from the legal community to see who makes the final cut. The more obscure, techie, free, cutting edge, slightly out-there, the better. Suggestions can be hardware, software, websites, or even good old marketing tactics. No flagrant pimping of your product (and we won’t pimp Avvo either.)
If you have any suggestions – just submit a comment below.
Oh – and if you haven’t signed up for Avvocating: Advanced Online Marketing Training for Lawyers, please join us. Speakers include Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Avvo, Microsoft, Justia and the University of Washington. It’s January 21 and 22 in Seattle and there are still some spots available.
Thanks,
Conrad




January 12th, 2010 at 11:53 am
Buy a digital voice recorder. I have a Olympus WS-321-M (under $70.00) and I use it to record preliminary hearings. You can also use it to record witness interviews, notes to yourself and dictation.
Email the WMA recording to a transcription service and you get it back in hours.
January 12th, 2010 at 3:36 pm
Handy little free techy tool: Belarc Adviser
Download this safe utility and install/run. Will provide you with complete list of the hard and software located on your PC. Let’s you know items such as versions of software and whether or not you have open slots to add more memory. Print out for IT binder or tape to side of machine (don’t cover vents!).
http://www.belarc.com