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ABA Site-tation Has Moved! Adjust Your Bookmarks (And Your RSS Feeds)

ABA Legal Technology Resource Center staff

January 23, 2009 13:43

The LTRC is happy to announce that ABA Site-tation, the blog of the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center, has moved to a new platform and a new address. The blog can now be accessed at: http://new.abanet.org/sitetation/ RSS subscribers will need to adjust their feed readers...

Can You Peek? The Ethics of Mining Metadata

ABA Legal Technology Resource Center staff

October 28, 2008 13:43

Metadata is often defined as "data about data." Put differently, "metadata" refers to the layer of hidden information within nearly all electronic files that details the files' origins and history: who created it, what software was used, how recently it was edited, what changes or comments may...

Can You Peek? The Ethics of Mining Metadata

ABA Legal Technology Resource Center staff

October 28, 2008 13:43

Metadata is often defined as "data about data." Put differently, "metadata" refers to the layer of hidden information within nearly all electronic files that details the files' origins and history: who created it, what software was used, how recently it was edited, what changes or comments may...

Protect Your Firm Data from Pre-Vista Security Flaw

ABA Legal Technology Resource Center staff

October 28, 2008 13:35

Scenario (applies to pre-Vista Windows computers): you or your IT person have set up your computer so that you can log in using a username and a password.  You might think that this means that no one else, other than the IT people perhaps, can access the files on your computer without your ...

Protect Your Firm Data from Pre-Vista Security Flaw

ABA Legal Technology Resource Center staff

October 28, 2008 12:49

Scenario (applies to pre-Vista Windows computers): you or your IT person have set up your computer so that you can log in using a username and a password.  You might think that this means that no one else, other than the IT people perhaps, can access the files on your computer without your ...

Protect Your Firm Data from Pre-Vista Security Flaw

ABA Legal Technology Resource Center staff

October 28, 2008 12:49

Scenario (applies to pre-Vista Windows computers): you or your IT person have set up your computer so that you can log in using a username and a password.  You might think that this means that no one else, other than the IT people perhaps, can access the files on your computer without your ...

Friday PMA Blog Roundup

ABA Legal Technology Resource Center staff

October 17, 2008 12:43

Here's a roundup of recent legal technology posts from the blogs of several prominent legal practice management advisors and consultants:: David Bilinsky, the Practice Management Advisor for the Law Society of British Columbia, writes about his continuing experiences in switching from PC to Mac in...

Take Your Internet Connection With You (Mobile Broadband Wireless)

ABA Legal Technology Resource Center staff

October 16, 2008 16:00

Tired of hunting around coffee shops and hotels for Wi-Fi internet connections? Wish you could connect to the internet while on trains and in automobiles? Now you can take your wireless connections with you with a technology called mobile broadband wireless.Mobile broadband wireless networks,...

Back to Basics: The Best Keyboards and Mice

ABA Legal Technology Resource Center staff

October 13, 2008 13:39

Discussions of legal technology tend to revolve around the big ticket items: firm-wide practice management software, elaborate back-end server solutions, e-discovery service providers, and so forth. While these are indeed vital issues for law firms, there are also many basic technology choices...

Better Calendaring With Overlay Mode in Microsoft Outlook 2007

ABA Legal Technology Resource Center staff

October 01, 2008 12:55

In Microsoft Outlook 2007 you can use a new feature called overlay mode to stay on top of appointments and obligations across various calendars, such as your main calendar and any calendars you share with coworkers.With Outlook 2003, users with access to several calendars can only view them...