Lawyer’s Guide to Outlook 2007 Knocks One Out of the Park!

I love baseball, and Ben Schorr’s new book, The Lawyer’s Guide to Outlook 2007, is so great it just naturally brings thoughts of home runs to mind. If you have already upgraded to Office 2007, and if you are feeling overwhelmed by both the new user interface in Outlook, not to mention the volume of [...]

$#*%!!! I can’t log in. Again!!!

We’ve been hearing that complaint a lot here at bar headquarters since we changed the log-in procedure for the password protected area of Alabar, our web site. But don’t despair. The new protocol is not difficult.
In order to start the process, go to the home page of the bar’s website at www.alabar.org. [...]

Weekend Audio: On Wasting Time and Email

I mentioned to a friend recently that blogging is harder than I thought it would be because I don’t have as much time to read as I would like. Somehow, seeing the thoughts of other people expressed in writing, whether it’s reading books, magazines, articles on the Internet or other people’s blog posts, helps [...]

Need help with your practice? Get expert administrative advice now from ALA Referral!

Every day I talk to lawyers who are either making plans to leave an established firm and strike out on their own or have already done so. And I continue to be surprised that almost none of them have thought much beyond acquiring space and appropriate furnishings and equipment to set up shop. [...]

Bye bye Windows XP! Well, maybe not quite yet.

My home laptop is on its last legs. Again.
Before, it was overheating. Now the keyboard has quit working. The company that made it keeps taking it back for repairs, and it’s had as many lives as a cat, but I think this is its ninth. And who [...]