Stay Up to Date on Legal Technology by Using TechnoLawyer
Neil Squillante has created quit a juggernaut with his TechnoLawyer newsletters. What is it? It’s a newsletter of 10,000 lawyers, sharing reviews, asking questions, answering questions and providing opinions on any technology related question as it relates to practicing lawyers. Here’s a list of what Neil says his list covers:
TechnoLawyer covers many topics, including Accounting, Case Management, Digital Copiers, Document Assembly, Document Management, Handhelds/PDAs, Knowledge Management, Law Office Management, Legal Marketing, Litigation Support, Word Processing, and much more.
What makes Neil’s listserv different? The fact that all of the questions, answers and opinions are provided by practicing attorneys. I also like that vendors are invited to provide information on how their products can help lawyers. These articles by vendors are always clearly marked and in a separate e-mail. If you don’t want to read about that product, just hit the delete key. If it's a product I use or am interested in, I like hearing how to get more out of the product. I also like that it's clearly marked as coming from the vendor.
I signed up for his mailing list a few years ago and was overwhelmed by the amount of knowledge on there. I’ve found a way to deal with all of the good information in the newsletters. I have created a separate TechnoLawyer folder in my e-mail program and put all of the e-mails in there for later reference. I also print out a coy of the e-mails and toss them in my briefcase. That way, when I’m waiting for a motion, a roster call or just have some spare free time I can go through and read the newsletters. There’s a lot of great stuff in there from lawyers a lot more tech savvy than I am.
