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When you go paperless, taking notes is easy, but knowing what to do with them is hard. Learn how to organize and store your digital notes in a way that makes them useful. Read more

Last month the LPMT, in conjunction with Santa Ana College hosted the 2nd Annual OC Legal Tech Conference in Santa Ana. We are pleased to report that we received great feedback about the program and speakers. If you were not able to attend and would like to see what you missed, the presentations will be available on our site very soon. Read more

Legal services, by their very nature, are reactive services.Reacting to partner demands, client needs, and unexpected events.  Therefore, it is imperative to develop a productive workflow or your entire day, day after day, will be consumed by reactive projects and you’ll never realize your peak performance or feel like anything was accomplished.   Read more

The public and attorneys have an opportunity to submit written comments about policy issues before the Board of Trustees. These issues may include proposals such as revisions to the State Bar of California Model Rules of Procedure regarding arbitrator compensation and formal opinions regarding ethical obligations when departing a firm and ancillary business. Comments may be directed to the address listed on each proposal. Read more

Being busy has become a national obsession, and it certainly affects lawyers. We seem to have two speeds: frantic and fearful. We need to have a discussion about what might lie between these extremes, but an even more pressing question might be how to keep marketing going even when frantic. Read more

In 2019, cybersecurity is an issue that is — or should be — on the minds of lawyers in firms big and small. This is because lawyers have an ethical obligation to preserve the confidentiality of client information. And as lawyers increasingly move their data into digital format, that obligation necessarily shifts to the firm’s data stored online. Read more

San Francisco, long at the heart of the technology revolution, took a stand against potential abuse on May 14, 2019, by banning the use of facial recognition software by the police and other agencies. Read more

Greetings! My name is Clayton and I am the 2019 vice chair of the LPMT section’s executive committee. I’m so excited to carry forward the section’s mission of providing meaningful and relevant educational opportunities related to the critical functions of running a successful law practice. Read more

We are excited to announce several upcoming conference conferences we have been working on, in addition to great MCLE articles. Read more