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Case Management

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Bentomania!

Bentomania! For those of you who are thinking Bento may be the practice management solution you’ve been looking for, Don McAllister at ScreenCastsOnline (SCO) is reviewing the product in two installments. The first has just been completed and is available now for SCO members. The second will likely be produced in a few […]

Daylite Questionnaire for Lawyers

The Daylite template design team posted a list of questions on the MacLaw listserv today. Marketcircle graciously gave me permission to post them here as well. Any attorney who’s thinking about moving from Windows to Macs or who has already made the move and is struggling to use Daylite as their practice management […]

My Daylite Dilemma

One of the mildy ironic things about blogging is that there’s so little time to blog. I want to keep the focus on the transition from Macs to Windows, but I don’t want to do it piecemeal. So when I get to this stage of the journey, where it’s time to consider the […]

Using Macs in Trial Seminar: Part Deux

Here’s an announcement about using Macs in trials (and a little about case management as well). This is a must-go-to kind of seminar for any lawyer using a Mac. Read more after the jump.

VMWare Fusion: Installation and First Impressions

Click the title to read more about my experience installing VMWare Fusion and getting it to work with my office’s XP network.

The Ideal and the Reality Compared

Much has happened on the Mac front since my last post but work intervened so I haven’t had time to write it all down. I’ll take a stab at it now, at least a part of it.
You’ll recall that I discussed six First Principles of law office software to use in evaluating my current […]

A Note About Archiving

I found out last week that for four years, I’ve been ignoring an important function of database maintenance, namely archiving. Since I bought Timematters 5.0 in late 2003, I haven’t archived a single record. Bad idea. Click the title to read more about it.

First Principles for Law Office Software

Before getting into the nuts and bolts of the transition from Windows to Macs, I want to lay out a non-exhaustive set of First Principles that I think make a law office productive, efficient and a fun place to work. These principles are limited to software. (There are other First Principles relating to […]

Plan of Campaign

This post describes the approach I’m taking as I transition from Windows to Macs. I’m already clear that I can’t go All Mac all at once. The transition will be incremental at best. The length of the transition will depend on the willingness of Mac software developers to build better products with feature sets that rival ones already available on the Windows platform. Til then, I’ll have to make do with Parallels or TMWare Fusion.