Speech Technology Specialist Phil Metcalf, who was at ABA TECHSHOW at the end of March with Nuance, reflects on what users are now saying about the mobile versions of Dragon software - including those that are FREE!

VANCOUVER, BC and COLUMBUS, OH - MAY 14, 2012 - Affinity Consulting Group (Affinity), an independent technology consulting group dedicated to the legal profession, has joined Clio’s Certified Consultant program.

Clio is a cloud-based practice management system geared toward solo and small firm lawyers, helping manage everything from intake to invoicing. As a member of the Clio Certified Consultant program, Affinity benefits from intensive Clio training, and priority access to Clio’s technical, development and data migration teams. Such benefits further enhance Affinity’s cloud-based alternatives to traditional client-server practice management systems.

We liked having virtual instance of Windows and Office running on our iPads, but wondered how Microsoft felt about the licensing issues.  Those concerns may now be resolved.

Affinity Consulting Group, an independent technology consulting group dedicated to the legal profession, today announced that Affinity University, its online legal technology training division, is now offering discounted training course bundles as well as annual subscription options for its wide array of online, on-demand legal training courses. To date, there are eight unique bundles (consisting of 2-5 classes) available including Microsoft Office, Amicus Attorney, PracticeMaster, Tabs3 and Worldox. Affordable on-demand training subscriptions are available firm-wide

An issue we see a lot is getting fillable PDFs to save with the answers you provide in them. There's an easy way around this for most all PDFs you receive. 

Last year at this time  I reviewed the then new Fujitsu S1100 scanner (read the full article here), which had become my weapon of choice for imaging on the road.

Last week, I wrote about self-awareness as an essential trait of effective leadership.  And I’m guessing that some folks may be thinking, “That’s nice, but what does this have to do with my law practice?”  The answer is quite a bit.  In fact, self-awareness is a key component of the skill set that is most determinative of long-term business success, according to research conducted by the Stanford Research Institute International and Carnegie Mellon Foundation with Fortune 500 CEOs from around the world. The Stanford study found that 75 percent of long-term success in business depends upon leadership (people) skills.  

ABA TECHSHOW is right around the corner - scheduled for March 29-31st in Chicago - and we know this year promises to be better than ever. Affinity is proud to have four Partners presenting at this year's show.

So many of a lawyer's portable devices charge via USB.  But what if you don't have a computer or USB to AC adapter handy?  Here is a solution.

We are proud to announce that Affinity has once again been named to Software Technology, Inc's "President's Circle" for 2012.

We've just completed testing of the new version of Trumpet's Symphony Profiler batch scanning software in our Tampa office, and we are so impressed with the functionality that I thought I'd share it with our ACG followers.

You may be familiar with Xobni (Inbox backward), the Outlook add-in that adds a new pane to your Outlook window packed with information about the sender of whatever email you’re currently viewing or the contact you’ve selected.  Xobni has now added new products that work the same magic on Android phones and your computer's Gmail's web mail interface.

Everyone talks about "Cloud" computer as if there is a common understanding of what the term means.  Unfortunately, there isn't.  Clould computing, at least in the context of law office technology, has at least two distinct meanings.

Lifehacker's new browser speed tests has some surprising results.  Wasn't Chrome supposed to be the "fast" browser? Well....

I just returned from Orlando after attending what I consider to be the best Practice Management Annual Conference to date by LexisNexis.  This year's theme was "we're listening" as was evidenced by practice management leader, Jonah Paransky and his team symbolically wearing Disney character ears throughout the conference.