The Lawyer's Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies: Smart Ways to Work Together, Work from Home Edition

by Dennis M. Kennedy, Thomas L. Mighell

Overview

Written using the very tools that are discussed, this updated edition of The Lawyer's Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technology is a comprehensive guide covering:

• Best practices for working from home
• The distinction between collaborating within vs. outside your firm
• Collaborating on documents online and off
• Practical ways to manage cases and transactions
• Simple collaboration tools to use with clients, colleagues, and others
• Commonly used collaboration platforms
• Developing a collaboration strategy for your firm
• Practical issues, tips, and techniques
• The future of collaboration in the practice of law

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781639051434
Publisher:	American Bar Association
Publication date:	08/24/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	218
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Dennis Kennedy is the Director of Michigan State University’s Center for Law, Technology & Innovation and author of the book, Successful Innovation Outcomes in Law. He is also co-author, with Tom Mighell of the recently-published ABA book, The Lawyer's Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies, Work from Home Edition. He retired as Senior Counsel, Digital Payments and Labs, at Mastercard. He is a well-known author, speaker, law professor, blogger, co-host of The Kennedy-Mighell Report podcast on legal technology (since 2006), and former chair of the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center board. He has been active in the ABA Law Practice Division for many years, wrote the technology column for the ABA Journal, co-wrote several books on LinkedIn and Facebook for lawyers with Allison Johs, and recently started the Law Department Innovation library. In addition to teaching classes at /Michigan State University College of Law, he teaches a class called "Legal Technology Literacy and Leadership" at the University of Michigan Law School. He is @dennisKennedy on Twitter. His blog, DennisKennedy.Blog (http:// denniskennedy.com/blog/), has been a highly regarded resource on legal technology topics since its launch in early 2003.
Tom Mighell is Chief Operating Officer at Contoural, Inc., where he helps companies develop information governance and litigation readiness programs, to better control company records and information. Prior to becoming a consultant, he practiced law for 18 years with Cowles & Thompson in Dallas, Texas. Mr. Mighell is the author of iPad in One Hour for Lawyers, iPad in One Hour for Litigators, iPad Apps in One Hour for Lawyers and the co-author (with Dennis Kennedy) of The Lawyer's Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies: Smart Ways to Work Together, all published by the ABA's Law Practice Division. He is also the co-host of the The Kennedy-Mighell Report, a legal technology podcast at www.legaltalknetwork.com, and publishes a legal technology blog at Inter Alia (www.inter-alia.net). Tom served as Chair of ABA TECHSHOW in both 2008 and 2018. He served as Chair of the Law Practice Division from 2011-2012. Mr. Mighell received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Texas at Austin.