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The Key to Being a Happy Lawyer; 20 Helpful Utilities for Geek Lawyers; Review of Clio; My Rickety Task Management System

By TechnoLawyer | Friday, September 28, 2018

Today's issue of TL Serendipity contains these articles:

David O'Connell, The Key to Being a Happy Lawyer (If Only for a Minute or Two)

Tom Trottier, 20 Helpful Utilities for Geek Lawyers

Ed Schieffler, Review of Clio

Josh Friedman, My Rickety Task Management System

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Topics: Business Productivity/Word Processing | Collaboration/Knowledge Management | Coming Attractions | Practice Management/Calendars | Technology Industry/Legal Profession | TL Serendipity | Utilities

Reviews of Adobe Sign, Rukovoditel, Everything, Dictate Pro

By TechnoLawyer | Friday, September 21, 2018

Today's issue of TL Serendipity contains these articles:

Harold Dye, Review of Adobe Sign

Joni Mueller, Review of Rukovoditel

Miriam Jacobson, Review of Everything

Erica Todd, Review of Dictate Pro

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Topics: Business Productivity/Word Processing | Collaboration/Knowledge Management | Coming Attractions | Dictation/OCR/Speech Recognition | TL Serendipity | Utilities

How I Changed My Practice to Remain a Happy Lawyer; Reviews of Topaz Electric Pen, Everything, Copernic, Nomorobo

By TechnoLawyer | Friday, September 7, 2018

Today's issue of TL Serendipity contains these articles:

Mark Olberding, How I Changed My Practice to Remain a Happy Lawyer

Michael Schwartz, Review of Topaz Electric Pen for Digital and Print Signatures

Harry Steinmetz, Review of Daylite for Team Scheduling

Mark Olberding, Review of Everything Versus Copernic for Desktop Search

Jim Fortson, Review of Nomorobo

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Topics: Business Productivity/Word Processing | Coming Attractions | Email/Messaging/Telephony | Practice Management/Calendars | Technology Industry/Legal Profession | TL Serendipity | Utilities

New Uses for Multiple Monitors; Reviews of Dell Display Manager, Copernic; Know When to Revise and When to Say Good Enough; Pants Pockets

By TechnoLawyer | Friday, August 17, 2018

Today's issue of TL Serendipity contains these articles:

Nicholas Bettinger, New Uses for Multiple Monitors; Review of Dell Display Manager

Bruce Brightwell, Tip: Know When to Revise and When to Say Good Enough

George Lazar, Review of Copernic for Desktop Search

Government Employee, Women Also Need Pants Pockets

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Topics: Coming Attractions | Entertainment/Hobbies/Recreation | Litigation/Discovery/Trials | Monitors | TL Serendipity | Utilities

Reviews of Zola Suite and Kurent; Encrypting Your Windows PC

By TechnoLawyer | Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Today's issue of TL Serendipity contains these articles:

Stephen Silverberg, Review of Zola Suite (Practice Management Software)

Donald Coker, Review of Kurent (Cloud Billing Software)

Tom Trottier, Tip: How to Encrypt a PC Running Windows Home

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Type Only Your Legal Insights and Automate the Rest

By TechnoLawyer | Thursday, October 12, 2017

Today's issue of TL NewsWire covers a customizable, multiuser text entry automation utility that runs in Windows, Mac, and iOS applications (see article below). In addition, you'll find links to the previous 11 TL NewsWire features, including our coverage of a popular cloud practice management system that now offers a full-featured mobile app, a chat system, and payment processing, a service that enables you to analyze IP portfolios for M&A due diligence, litigation strategy, and prior art research, and much more. Don't miss the next issue.

Legal drafting involves a constant battle between precision and time spent. While hard enough for one lawyer to balance, it becomes even more of a challenge to scale across a law firm. Automating boilerplate language enables everyone at your firm to use carefully crafted language in a few keystrokes, ensuring consistency across work product.

TextExpander … in One Sentence

Smile's TextExpander is an automation tool for quickly entering frequently-used text in any application on Windows, Mac, and iOS.

The Killer Feature

TextExpander offers cloud-based administration tools. This enables everyone in your law firm to benefit from centrally managed "Snippets" — Smile's term for TextExpander's text automations — on all their supported devices.

TextExpander computes statistics so that you can see which snippets have the highest usage, and how much time your staff saves en masse. Sales and Business Development Manager Mike Burda tells me that the average TextExpander user saves one hour per day on average assuming a typing speed of 60 words per minute.

"I use TextExpander for many things in my practice — including responding to discovery," says lawyer Stewart Albertson of Albertson & Davidson in a blog post. "I have over 60 objection "snippets," including attorney-client privilege, work product doctrine, calls for expert's opinion from a lay person, etc. Before TextExpander I used to cut and paste from a template of objections. While this works, in my experience it takes much longer and it is easy to get lost in a large response file. As you can imagine, using TextExpander speeds the process up for responding to written discovery. Give it a try."

Other Notable Features

At its most basic, TextExpander enables you to type a shortcut such as "sig" in conjunction with a hot key of your choosing to enter your email signature snippet at the end of a message in Outlook. Snippets can contain rich text formatting, hyperlinks, images, and even HTML. They can span many paragraphs such as an entire engagement letter. You need not memorize TextExpander shortcuts. Instead, you can use another hot key to view a list on the fly and search through them. Your firm's TextExpander administrators can organize snippets into folders to make it easier for users to find the one they need.

More advanced snippets can incorporate conditional text. Such text appears next to a checkbox that controls whether to include it or not. For example, you may not want to include your mobile number in your signature every time so you can omit it by default unless you check its box. Additionally, snippets can perform date and other calculations, prompt you to enter data or choose an option from a menu, remove formatting of text on the clipboard, complete forms, etc.

Snippets can incorporate other snippets. With these "Nested Snippets," your administrator could reference a marketing snippet within each user's signature snippet. This would enable your firm to consistently promote whatever it wants in everyone's signature without users having to do anything.

What Else Should You Know?

TextExpander Team costs $7.96 per user per month billed annually ($9.99 otherwise). The Life Hacker plan for single users costs $3.33 per month billed annually ($4.16 otherwise). You pay only for active users and can accrue credits. The administrator tools provide control over access rights. Learn more about TextExpander.

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Topics: Automation/Document Assembly/Macros | TL NewsWire | Utilities

10.5-Inch iPad Pro in a Real Estate Practice; Reviews of Amicus Online, Surface Pro

By TechnoLawyer | Thursday, August 17, 2017

Today's issue of TL Serendipity contains these articles:

Wesley Y. S. Chang, How I Use My 10.5-Inch iPad Pro in a Real Estate Practice

Dwight Sowerby, Review of Amicus Online

Christian Onsager, Review of Surface Pro 3 (Sleek Beast But Getting Old)

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Best Windows Backup Software 2017 Plus 61 More Must-Reads

By TechnoLawyer | Monday, July 24, 2017

Coming today to BlawgWorld: Our editorial team has selected the 62 best legal technology articles, podcasts, and videos from the past week. Below you'll find a sampling from today's issue, including our BlawgWorld Pick of the Week. BlawgWorld is free so don't miss the next issue — sign up now.

Congratulations to Jon L. Jacobi of PCWorld on winning our BlawgWorld Pick of the Week award: Best Windows Backup Software 2017

10 Time-Saving Tips to Speed Your Work in Word

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Timing: The Automatic Mac Time Tracking App (Lawyer Review)

The Best 4K Laptops

Microsoft's Most Baffling Release Yet, Surface Laptop Is Just a Laptop

The Simple Way to Scan Documents With Your Android Phone

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Reviews of Mitel IP Phone System, Cisco Umbrella, PFSense; 4K Monitor Advice; Lower Cost Practice Management Options

By TechnoLawyer | Thursday, June 22, 2017

Today's issue of TL Serendipity contains these articles:

Chuck Pollack, Review of Mitel IP Phone System Plus Failover Internet Access

Tom Trottier, Reviews of Cisco Umbrella and PFSense

John Ahern, Advice for Running Old Apps on 4K Monitors

Donald Coker, Lower Cost Practice Management Options

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Review of Citepad Plus 50 More Must-Reads

By TechnoLawyer | Monday, May 22, 2017

Coming today to BlawgWorld: Our editorial team has selected the 51 best legal technology articles, podcasts, and videos from the past week. Below you'll find a sampling from today's issue, including our BlawgWorld Pick of the Week. BlawgWorld is free so don't miss the next issue — sign up now.

Congratulations to Robert Ambrogi of LawSites on winning our BlawgWorld Pick of the Week award: Citepad Legal Keyboard Rolls Out A Windows Version and New Pricing

Zaliet Considers Building Your Law Firm Website the First Step, Not the Last

Seven Things You Need to Know About ABA Ethics Opinion 477

Case.one Offers Free Access to Firm Manager Customers

This Is the New Microsoft Surface Pro

Goodbye Plastic, Hello Next-Gen Laptops

What's New in Android O, Arriving Summer 2017

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