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Formulaw from IICLE By Alan Pearlman Law Office Management and Economics, Standing Committee on, December 2017 In the practice of law, nothing can seem more tedious than the constant repetitive actions of legal forms, petitions and documents.
Lawyers need to blog By Alan Pearlman Law Office Management and Economics, Standing Committee on, May 2017 A review of LexBlog, Inc., a company that will take all of the guesswork out of preparing and creating your legal blog.
My head and my work are in the clouds— With ScanSnap Cloud By Alan Pearlman Law Office Management and Economics, Standing Committee on, May 2017 Reviewer Alan Pearlman says, if you can only buy one new item for a law practice, you need ScanSnap Cloud.
ScanSnap iX100…A small BUT more-than-mighty scanner for everywhere you go! By Alan Pearlman Law Office Management and Economics, Standing Committee on, April 2015 A review of the features of this latest iteration of mobile scanner.
ScanSnapSV600…A touch of the button…But a contactless scanner? By Alan Pearlman Legal Technology, Standing Committee on, March 2015 The author reviews this latest hardware—what he believes to be one of the best new scanner products on the market today.
ScanSnapSV600…A touch of the button…But a contactless scanner? By Alan Pearlman Law Office Management and Economics, Standing Committee on, September 2014 The author reviews this latest hardware—what he believes to be one of the best new scanner products on the market today.
WordRake—How does your document garden grow? By Alan Pearlman Law Office Management and Economics, Standing Committee on, November 2013 WordRake is an editing program that identifies extra language to be removed allowing for brevity and clarity.
Not so back to basics—The sky’s the limit! By Alan Pearlman Law Office Management and Economics, Standing Committee on, April 2013 A review of the Sky Smartpen.
Seiko’s Smart Label Printers bring your firm to the future! By Alan Pearlman Law Office Management and Economics, Standing Committee on, June 2012 A review of the Seiko Smart Label Printer 450.
The Checkpoint Flyer… The only way to travel! By Alan Pearlman Law Office Management and Economics, Standing Committee on, September 2011 The Checkpoint Flyer laptop bag provides a variety of benefits for frequent travelers.
How to laugh in the face of a data disaster By Alan Pearlman Law Office Management and Economics, Standing Committee on, September 2011 A true story from the case chronicles of ETS Investigative Services of Wilmette, Illinois, a firm specializing in data security, recovery, forensics and investigation.
Wherever you go…Never forget to take your Pulse! By Alan Pearlman Law Office Management and Economics, Standing Committee on, September 2011 A review of the Livescribe Pulse Digital Smartpen, which creates digital copies of everything you write by hand while recording audio at the same time.  
How cloud computing will change the way we work—Hint: it’s here now! By Alan Pearlman Law Office Management and Economics, Standing Committee on, December 2010 Simply put, cloud computing means using Hosted Services. Hosted services can be a combination of offsite applications, data and hardware (servers) used to create and look up information, complete transactions, and perform analyses that would previously be performed only on a local PC or on-premises server.
Staying safe with GPS technology By Alan Pearlman Law Office Management and Economics, Standing Committee on, December 2010 Being an active part of your children’s lives has always been important. Parental involvement is needed now, more than ever. Today it is possible to track a child’s activities via text messages and e-mail, as well as to monitor his or her whereabouts via GPS.
Adobe Acrobat 9—More or less for the law office By Alan Pearlman Law Office Management and Economics, Standing Committee on, June 2010 A brief explanation of the differences between Adobe Acrobat 8 and 9, and the reasons you may want to upgrade.
How good is your e-mail evidence ?…RPost® Registered E-Mail® gives you the courtroom edge! By Alan Pearlman Law Office Management and Economics, Standing Committee on, June 2010 Save yourself time and worry-- RPost provides you a registered receipt for each e-mail you send.
LPES—Protecting your laptop from prying eyes By Alan Pearlman Law Office Management and Economics, Standing Committee on, June 2010 Four simple steps to help you protect the confidential information contained on your laptop, should it become lost or stolen.
Electronic discovery: Pay now or pay later! By Alan Pearlman Law Office Management and Economics, Standing Committee on, February 2009 The days of paper documents are becoming a faint memory and being replaced with e-mail, instant messaging, video and VoIP. Although these tools make our everyday lives easier, they have the potential to become a serious liability for your company if not managed properly.
How good is your e-mail evidence ?…RPost® Registered E-Mail® gives you the courtroom edge! By Alan Pearlman Law Office Management and Economics, Standing Committee on, February 2009 As most attorneys will tell you, an e-mail is a discoverable document that is legal evidence, to be used at any trial and for any discoverable purpose.
Virtualization and law office computer systems By Alan Pearlman Law Office Management and Economics, Standing Committee on, February 2009 Virtualization is a technology that does present some added variables and complexity, but provides features and tools that change the status quo. It is a technology that the legal industry will surely embrace and use to better our service to our ultimate consumer…the client.
Workshare does its share to secure your documents By Alan Pearlman Law Office Management and Economics, Standing Committee on, August 2007 Although most law firms use massive deployments of traditional security solutions to lock down their office systems, networks and all of their stored content, most of them still struggle with the massive loads of shared electronic documents that flood their corporate network, the Internet, the e-mail system and all of their portable storage devices.
“The Electronic Lawyer” ™: Seiko’s Smart Label Printers Bring Your Firm to the Future! By Alan Pearlman Law Office Management and Economics, Standing Committee on, May 2007 At some point or another in the life of your law firm one of your staff is going to ask the ill-fated question, “Why can’t we just print one label to send this material out?
Scanning’s a snap with the Fujitsu ScanSnap! By Alan Pearlman Law Office Management and Economics, Standing Committee on, May 2007 The days of talking about the paperless office have been here and gone—but one thing remains and that’s the fact that you need to have a good, reliable scanner to do the job for you!
Using Outlook 2003 to organize your e-mail By Alan Pearlman Law Office Management and Economics, Standing Committee on, December 2005 Did you ever take the time in your practice day to think about just exactly how much time you spend looking for those very elusive BUT important e-mails?
“The Electronic Lawyer”™: C-Pen… A new design in personal handheld scanners By Alan Pearlman State and Local Taxation, October 2003 In this article we take the scanner idea one step further with a brand new and innovative piece of hardware that I think the legal marketplace will embrace.
“The electronic lawyer” ™ By Alan Pearlman Law Office Management and Economics, Standing Committee on, June 2002 There are some products in the market place that we can do without, while others just keep getting better and better. Iomega Corporation is one such company that keeps coming up with the best in storage and containment products for both the PC and MAC world!
“The electronic lawyer” ™ By Alan Pearlman Law Office Management and Economics, Standing Committee on, June 2002 Last month I told you about an exciting new scanner to take care of all your business card needs.
Bankruptcy Plus puts a plus in your practice! By Alan Pearlman Law Office Management and Economics, Standing Committee on, August 2001 Around January of this year the administrative offices of the United States Courts made an announcement that they were going to amend the Official Bankruptcy Form 7, as approved by the Judicial Conference of September, 2000.
FinAlyst … a powerful money management utility By Alan Pearlman Law Office Management and Economics, Standing Committee on, August 2001 Every now and then, a program comes along that makes working with money and management a little easier on our everyday lives.
PHONEslips … your receptionist will love you for it! By Alan Pearlman Law Office Management and Economics, Standing Committee on, August 2001 There is a scenario that is repeated daily in law offices around the world. Simply put, after a long day in court, attorneys go back to their offices to find an Empire-State Building-size stack of pink telephone messages, which call for attention and return phone calls that must be attended to.

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