Top Technology Tools to Streamline Your Law Practice
Niki Black | legal technology evangelist, mycase.com Author | Cloud computing for lawyers (ABA 2012) 1995
Clifford Stoll Me Mocking futurists | The Internet: Bah! Total Geek
“(Visionaries say) commerce and business will shift from offices and malls to networks and modems-Baloney... (They) predict that we'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Internet. Uh, sure...Do our computer pundits lack all common sense? The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper.” Technology timeline
iPhone iPad
2006 first released 2008 first released 2015 2005
Amazon EC2 App Store Apple Watch 2007 2010 released in private beta launched first released How did we get here? Confluence of 1. events 3. 1. Improved processing power 2. Cloud computing 3. Mobile computing
2. “Mobile devices are constrained by their memory, processing power, and battery life. But combined with cloud computing, data processing and storage can happen outside of mobile devices.”
*ieee Computer Society 2014 Tech Trends Report Lawyers in the Cloud
16% 21% 31%
2011 2012 2013 a new technology less scary the tipping point Lawyers going mobile
84% 93% 51%
*2016 ABA Legal Technology Surveys * Source: http:// tinyurl.com/abaCloud Security issues to consider:
1. Encryption 2. Geo-redundancy 3. Data back ups 4. Extraction of data 5. Transborder data flow For full list of questions see: 6. Financial security http://bit.ly/hyFBxo Tech tool 1 Billing time Billing on the go
legal apps / legal apps / web-based server-based non-legal apps
stand alone or LPM integration server-based billing integration stand alone Timewerks Pro Time59, Bill4Time, or LPM iTimekeep apps Tech tool: 2 Collaboration Tools Collaboration tools
GOOGLE LPM DOCS . SYSTEMS FREE WEB-BASED TOOLS GLASSCUBES PAID
SLACK Legal v. non-legal
TRELLO DROPBOX BOX.NET Tech tool: 3 Secure communication Secure communication
SECURE most secure ONLINE encrypted, protected, confined to platform PORTALS more secure ENCRYPTED EMAIL forwarded emails lose encryption
unsecure EMAIL like a postcard written in pencil Tech tool: 4 Document storage document storage
spider oak & lpm platforms dropbox & box boxcryptor
encrypted by company encrypted by company encrypted by user designed for lawyers non-legal non-legal & storage only Tech tool: 5 Document scanning Scanning tools
SCANNER PRO FIJITSU SCANSNAP IOS APPS SCANNING NEAT TOOLS SCANNER HARDWARE GENIUS SCAN
TURBO KODAK SCAN SCANMATE EPSON PERFECTION Tech tool: 6 PDF annotation Pdf viewing and annotation
ios apps web-based software desktop software
pdf expert group docs adobe acrobat See also: Goodreader, See also: PDFEscape, See also: Foxit, Okular iAnnotate, ReaddleDocs PDFOnlineReader Tech tool: 7 Legal research Legal research
GOOGLE CASEMAKER, CASEMAKER, SCHOLAR & FASTCASE, FASTCASE, WESTLAW & FASTCASE APP VERSUSLAW VERSUSLAW LEXIS
free free lower price most expensive
but less flexibility with bar participation prices and coverage vary plans vary Tech tool: 8 Video conferencing VIDEO CONFERENCING
Non-legal - FREE NON-LEGAL LEGAL
WebEx, GoToMeeting, Google hangouts, zoom Skype, signal, whatsapp Legaler
https://www.abajournal.com/web/article/top-video- conferencing-tools-for-lawyers Tech tool: 9 Emerging technology EMERGING TECHNOLOGY
Smartwatches AI aka “Robot Lawyers” “The truth is usually just an excuse for a lack of imagination.” -Garak, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine thanks for listening! Nicole Black Legal Technology Evangelist | MyCase.com | web-based law practice management www.nicoleblackesq.com @nikiblack on Twitter Author and co-author of: