When attempting to create a location-independent law firm, the first thing that’s important to handle is how telephones are used. Though we live in a digital world, for most the telephone is still the primary means of connecting. Courts need to get through to the office, clients call with a myriad of questions and issues, [...]
Category Archives: Virtual Law Office
Make 2010 The Year You Become Untethered!
The world is changing at such a rapid pace it seems as if nothing is the same from day to day. We went from a cell phone to an iPhone (and, for some, to an Android or Palm Pre). We went from desktops to laptops to netbooks. Our Internet service went from dial-up to Ethernet [...]
Virtual Lawyer And The Kindle – Paperless Goes Mobile
I got my Amazon Kindle eReader when I landed home from my recent trip out to Oklahoma City, where I had the privilege and honor to speak at the Oklahoma Bar Association. I enjoyed the trip and meeting awesome people including Jim Calloway, but I was itching to open the box when I got home.
My [...]
Untethered Lawyer Book Giveaway: The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated
I’ve been influenced by many authors and books, but few compare to the original The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss. This book wasn’t an eye-opener so much as it was a validation of the way I practiced law. Here was a business owner who stepped forward and unapologetically proclaimed his freedom from the 9-to-5 grind [...]
How A Virtual Lawyer Sends Non-Virtual Mail
Everything’s online these days. My email’s here, my files are scanned and accessible here, even my faxes come to me by email. The circle, however, is incomplete.
Some days you need to send out a piece of paper through the old-fashioned US Postal Service.
Well, maybe not. There’s this cool service called SnailMailr.com. The premise is so [...]
Making A Decent Cup Of Coffee In A Hotel Room
I’m in Tucson this weekend for the Members-Only Workshop being put on be the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys. The hotel is gorgeous, the weather beautiful, the company fantastic. But I’ve got a problem, and that’s my caffeine addiction.
See, my morning ritual begins with a cup of coffee at home. On the road, I [...]