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

apps web-based desktop software

expert group docs See also: Goodreader, See also: PDFEscape, See also: Foxit, 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: