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AI Personalizations for Lawyers: Teach Your AI How You Work
Every time you start a new conversation with an AI tool, do you find yourself repeating the same instructions? Keep it concise. Use plain English. Don’t invent facts. Ask questions when the assignment is unclear. Write for a client rather than another lawyer. That repetition is optional. Now you can use AI personalizations in Copilot, ChatGPT and Claude, and establish the ground rules for assisting you.
Three Quick Excel Tips for Legal Professionals
Tech Tips Whether you’re reviewing billing data, tracking discovery, managing a closing checklist, or trying to make sense of an export from your practice management system, few tools in Microsoft 365 can save you as much time as Excel — if you know the right tricks. Here are three Excel tips for legal professionals to help you get answers faster. Turn the exported data files you receive into clean, searchable tables in seconds.
Create Interactive Dashboards With Microsoft Copilot
Here’s how legal teams can use Microsoft 365 Copilot to build interactive law firm dashboards that help find the story inside lists, spreadsheets and document libraries. Turn Static Data into Actionable Insights: Learn how using Microsoft Copilot for law firm dashboards turns raw SharePoint lists and scattered Excel workbooks into interactive visual summaries.
Organizing Legal Work with Copilot Notebooks
Microsoft 365 Copilot Notebooks are like matter binders with an AI assistant attached. They can help lawyers and legal teams organize materials, ask better questions, and move from scattered information to useful work product faster. Legal work rarely suffers from too little information.
Talk It Out: The Best Dictation Tools for Lawyers
Ben Schorr’s tips for using Windows’ built-in dictation tools — and a few familiar add-ons — to capture work at the speed of thought. Right now, everyone is talking about AI — and for good reason. But while AI is busy drafting and summarizing, there’s another productivity lever many lawyers are underusing: their own voice. If you spend your day drafting emails, notes, memos, or even longer documents, dictation can save serious time and reduce the wear-and-tear of typing everything yourself.
Microsoft Word Tips for Lawyers: Three Ways to Make Word Work Better
Tech Tips Microsoft Word tips for lawyers who spend time editing, formatting and tweaking long documents. These days in legal tech, it’s hard to get a word in (pun intended), unless it’s about AI. But the fact is, you’re probably still spending a lot of time every day in the tried-and-trusted tools you’ve been using for years. Especially Microsoft Word. Let me give you three quick tips to help make Word work better for you, especially on long documents.
Build Your Own Copilot Legal Assistant — No Tech Skills Required
Ben Schorr explains how attorneys can use Microsoft Copilot Agent Builder to create custom, high-value legal assistants, or agents. Just give yourself 15 minutes. Microsoft Copilot is good at answering questions, summarizing documents, and drafting emails — but what if it could do those things tuned specifically to your practice, already familiar with your firm’s preferred language, your clients and your workflows? That is what Copilot agents are for.
Outlook Productivity Tips for Lawyers: 3 Quick Steps to Boost Productivity
Tech Tips There are few apps attorneys spend more time in than Outlook, so every little trick you can find to save time and be more efficient pays off. Here are three of Ben Schorr’s favorite Outlook productivity tips for lawyers. Mastering the tools you use almost every hour of the day, like Outlook, Word and your case management system, can make a big difference in your law practice. Here are three of my favorite tips to boost productivity in Outlook.
Metaprompting for Lawyers: The Smart Way to Craft Smarter Prompts
Not sure where to start with an AI prompt, or want to make your prompts better? Metaprompting can help! Occasionally, I want AI to help me accomplish a task, but I’m not sure the best way to ask it to do that. Whenever I’m stumped for a prompt, I turn to the best expert I know on AI … my AI. Metaprompting is the art of having the AI help you craft the prompt you’re going to use with the AI — and improve its own instructions.
Starting 2026 Safely: Cybersecurity Best Practices for Law Firms
Protect your practice with these essential 2026 cybersecurity best practices for law firms. Cybersecurity can’t solve every problem, but it can help you protect your clients and your reputation. With sensitive client data at stake and ethical obligations to uphold, it’s essential to follow these best practices to defend against email scams, malware, and credential thieves. Lawyers are entrusted with confidential information, making them prime targets for cyberattacks.
Microsoft Bookings for Lawyers: Make a Date With Personal Booking Pages
Tech Tips Bookings is one of the Microsoft 365 features most lawyers don’t even realize they have. This scheduling tool can be a real time-saver for your practice if you use it well. Let’s start by focusing on how to set up personal Booking pages. Bookings creates a public webpage that lets people pick a time on your calendar and book a meeting with you. It syncs with your Outlook calendar, so it won’t offer any times when you’re already booked.
Cut Through the Clutter: How Copilot Helps You Get a Handle on Your Inbox
Tech Tips Using Microsoft Copilot for email management makes it easier to triage your overstuffed inbox, identify emails most in need of attention and organize them just as you like. Ben Schorr walks us through his prompts. For as long as there has been email, attorneys have struggled with how to manage the deluge. Copilot, Microsoft’s AI assistant, is the latest tool that can help you get through it. Let’s take a look at how you can use Copilot to make your inbox more manageable.
Ben Schorr's AI Vocabulary Primer
Ben Schorr is a treasure for Microsofties. His job is making life easier for those using Microsoft products, and he is very good at his job. His recent LinkedIn post publicized an MS news item, a List of 10 AI Terms Everyone Should Know. Cocktail party experts are a dime a dozen, but lots of people (especially the seniors among us) don’t have time or inclination to master all the intricacies of AI and don’t want to sound stupid either. Getting the vocabulary right is worth something.
2023 Wisconsin Solo & Small Firm Conference
Schedule Schedule is subject to change Substantive Law Track Practice Management Track Technology Track Quality of Life and Ethics Track Thursday, October 19, 2023 Opening Plenary: ChatGPT: The Future is Here (1.5 LPM) Generative artificial intelligence...
Re: Can't indent bullet point lists in PowerPoint for Mac
@Lcross295 You can tab to get second/third/fourth/etc level bulleted text as long as the text is in a text or content placeholder (one of the shapes that contains e.g. "Click here to ..." when it's empty). Tabbing doesn't work to change bullet indent level in regular inserted text box shapes. Never has. I don't have a Mac version of PPT handy, but in the Windows version, there are Increase List Level and Decrease List Level buttons in the Paragraph group of the Home tab.
Can a Family Member Get Paid to be a Caregiver
There is no doubt that family caregivers play a vital role in the lives of their loved ones. They provide physical, emotional and often financial support to those who need it most. But what if you could get paid to be a family caregiver? Believe it or not, there are many programs and resources available to help you do just that! In this article, we will discuss 6 of the best ways that can help you get paid for providing care to your loved ones.
2019 Law Practice Division Fall Conference
The Porter Portland Curio Collection by Hilton, 7 AM PDT The ABA Law Practice Division's Fall Meeting serves as a time for Division members to conduct business meetings for various Boards, Core Groups, and Committees of the Law Practice Division. $129 NON-MEMBERS $0 MEMBERS Rate The ABA Law Practice Division (LP) is a professional membership organization of the American Bar Association that helps lawyers and other legal professionals with the business of practicing law.
2019 YLD Fall Conference
Sheraton New Orleans Hotel, 7 AM CDT The Young Lawyers Division 2019 Fall Conference is the ABA's home for the new attorney, giving members tools to navigate the early years of a career, opportunities to network and resources to grow skill sets.
Law Practice Management - 2018 Year in Review Catalog
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