![]() Google Calendar does not help you calculate deadlines, though and it won’t display any more than one month’s worth of events at a time. Google Calendar is great for checking your schedule on the go, inviting others to meetings, reviewing your team’s schedules, and easily scheduling events involving different time zones. ![]() In my litigation practice, we used Google Calendar primarily because my firm was using Google Apps for Business. ![]() Having a trusty calendar app is essential for both the big-picture overviews, as well as the day-to-day management of meetings and depositions. When you have multiple litigation cases, the difficulty of keeping track increases exponentially. Sometimes you’ll have to track a half-dozen deadlines ticking away simultaneously for a single case. I’ll explain how each of these tools provides massive value to litigators. The essential software categories are a calendar app Microsoft Excel (or Google Sheets) Adobe Acrobat eDiscovery review software and software for linking witnesses, facts, evidence, and legal issues. (Sadly, there’s no software yet for dealing with opposing counsel.) ![]() The problems that software solves relate to tracking complex litigation deadlines, dealing with electronic evidence, and organizing one’s knowledge of a case’s factual history and claims. I believe attorneys should have an ethical duty to their clients to pursue and learn how to use the tools available to them to better and more efficiently represent their clients.” It can save time, give order to the chaos, and provide added confidence over your caseload.Īccording to Jeff Bennion, San Diego attorney and writer for Above the Law, “Having a tech-savvy office has been the greatest benefit to me to keep pace with larger, more well-gunned offices. I feel you, brother.īut what does this have to do with software? Well, legal software can make it easier to be a litigator. As another litigator friend once told me: “I love everything about the law, except judges, clients, and opposing counsel.” That sums it up pretty well. While perhaps not literally hell, litigation is a state of war. I can’t imagine a transactional attorney finding that meme amusing or even relatable. It’s like riding a bike… except the bike is on fire, you’re on fire, everything is on fire, and you’re in hell.” ![]()
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