The Mac Lawyer: How Lawyers Practice Law and Serve Clients with Macs -- Really!

As my readers are aware, I presented two seminars at the ABA TechShow 2008 this past March in Chicago. One was "How Lawyers Practice Law and Serve Clients with Macs -- Really!" which I co=presented with Jeff Richardson. Our written materials from that session were recently republished in the September 2008 Law Practice Today webzine, as follows:

While most lawyers are wedded to the PC, these two lawyers enumerate the advantages of the Mac, for work, for home, and for the pure enjoyment of it.

For over a decade, every one of the hundreds of press releases issued by Apple has ended by noting that “Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh.” Apple’s critical role in the early days of personal computers is beyond debate, but for a period of time in the 1990s, Apple seemed to have lost its way. Its computer lineup was confusing, its market share reached an all time low, the company’s stock price fell to $5 a share (in current share prices), and Dell CEO Michael Dell famously quipped that if he owned Apple, “I’d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.”

Since then, the company has had a resurgence. Apple’s computers and software have received rave reviews, its market share is at the highest point since the Mac was first introduced in 1984, Apple has taken over the digital music market with the ubiquitous iPod, the company is already a formidable presence in the cell phone market with the iPhone introduced just last year, and at the time of this writing (January of 2008) Apple’s stock price has risen to over $200 a share.

With a record number of people now switching from PCs to Macs, the question for lawyers is: should you switch too? And if you do, should you maybe just switch for your home computer, or also for your office as well? Most importantly, what do you gain and what do you lose by making the switch?

I. Reasons to Consider Switching to Macs

There are a number of reasons for switching from a PC to a Mac. First, many find that Macs are more reliable than PCs. Macs have long been known as computers that just work, without hassles or headaches. Mac users rarely have to deal with the day-to-day frustrations that most PC users must endure, such as “freeze-ups” or the infamous “blue screen of death.” By utilizing tight hardware integration and a rock-solid operating system, Apple makes computers that rarely crash and that are always ready to work when you are.

Macs are also famous for being easier to use than PCs. Both the Mac itself and its software are designed for consumers, not for techno-wizards. The operating system is very intuitive, and most programs can be used without having to first read an instruction manual, you simply start using them and being productive. Apple software has long been praised for its integration; the menu structure is similar no matter which program you are using, making it easier to get things done. Most new Mac users are up to speed and comfortable with their Mac within a day or two of beginning to use it. Some people confuse this with meaning that Macs are “simple” or “toys,” but nothing could be further from the truth. To the contrary, many people find that they can actually do more sophisticated tasks with a Mac than with a PC because the well-designed interfaces hide the complication of those tasks from the user.

A huge advantage for Macs is that they are far more secure than PCs. Because the Mac operating system (OS X) was designed from the very beginning with security in mind, you are not susceptible to viruses. There are reportedly well over 100,000 viruses for PCs. How many viruses are there on the Mac? The answer is amazing – zero! Most Mac users don’t even bother running antivirus software or other software to protect from malware. Any lawyer using a PC without such protection should probably be fired for malpractice. Thus, while PC users must spend money each year for antivirus software to protect themselves, Mac users are safe without that added expense or extra software. Further, because Macs require you to enter your password before installing any programs on it, you are protected from spyware, Trojan horses, and other programs that might try to sneak their way in without your knowledge or consent.

Another advantage of using Macs is the Apple Stores. Around 200 stores are located around the country, including large flagship stores in places like New York, Chicago, and San Francisco. These stores provide a great shopping experience for purchasing a Mac, but even more important they provide daily, free seminars aimed at beginning, intermediate and advanced users, and they include a free “Genius Bar” where you can ask any questions about using the computer. Thus, with an Apple Store nearby, you have free tech support for your computer. The welcoming style and impressive design of the Apple Stores led Michael Gartenberg, vice president and research director at Jupiter Research, to recently predict that the New York City stores “are going to become iconic places that people go to see when they come to New York. Rockefeller Center, Radio City Music Hall and Apple’s great glass cube on Fifth Avenue.”

One factor that makes it easy to switch to a Mac is that, for the most part, Macs work with your existing hardware. Even though you may want to buy a sleek new monitor, keyboard, or mouse from Apple, you will not have to do so. Macs will work just fine with most of existing peripherals and most printers, scanners, and multi-function machines. Even better, you will not have to waste your valuable time searching for drivers for these items. Your Mac will recognize most peripherals when you connect them, and you can then begin using them without even having to reboot.

Another Mac advantage is price. This one catches some people by surprise, because historically Macs were more expensive than PCs, but this is no longer true. Macs now cost about the same as similarly-equipped PCs. Macs also come with many built-in features, such as the seamless ability to create PDFs, which require add-ons for the PC. (When you print in any application, built-in software gives you the option to save a document as a PDF file, email to someone else as a PDF file, and even encrypt as a PDF file.) Even better, Macs tend to hold their value over time much better than PCs do. Mac laptops that are over two years old can still sell for approximately 60% of their original purchase price. Not that you will probably be looking to sell your Mac, but the high resale value is evidence that the computers maintain their usability for a long time. And because Macs are more stable and more secure than PCs, you are less likely to lose time due to your computers not working properly or your computers being infected by a virus. You will also avoid the “joy” (and expense) of seeing your technical support person on a regular basis. Wouldn’t you rather spend your hard-earned money on something other than paying to repair or maintain your computer system?

Many PC users accurately note that there is a lot more software available for PCs than for Macs. Frankly, this is true. But it is also largely irrelevant. There are still thousands of programs available for the Mac, and all of the core features – word processing, Internet access, e-mail, graphics, personal finance, etc. – are well represented. And while there are some great programs only available on the PC, there are also lots of great Mac-only programs, such as Circus Ponies’ Notebook do-it-all organizer and Apple’s Keynote presentation software.

Even if you need to run that one unique program that is only available on a PC, you can still do so on a Mac because all new Macs can run Windows and thus Windows software. And to the surprise of many, they do so quite well. PC World recently reported: “The fastest Windows Vista notebook we've tested this year – or for that matter, ever – is a Mac [the Apple MacBook Pro]. Not a Dell, not a Toshiba, not even an Alienware.” You can either use a built-in technology called Boot Camp to boot your Mac into running Windows XP or Vista (which you must purchase separately), or you can purchase a third party virtualization program such as Parallels or VMWare’s Fusion to run a Windows program in a separate window at the same time that you are running the Macintosh operating system. For many, this is the key selling point, because by purchasing a Mac plus a copy of Windows and perhaps also Parallels or Fusion, you essentially get two computers (a Mac and a PC) for barely more than the price of one.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, a wonderful Mac advantage is that many people find Macs simply more enjoyable to use than PCs. This may sound somewhat strange, but people who have used a Mac frequently comment how “enjoyable” their experience was. Apple’s desktops, laptops, and peripherals are all very elegant, yet simple and functional – can you say that about your PC? Some would go so far as to say that Macs have a certain “coolness” factor about them, which might appeal to your ego. As much time as you spend working on your computer, shouldn’t it be as beautiful, cool, and fun as possible?

II. Using Macs at Home … Even if You Use PCs at the Office

For all of these reasons, you may now be tempted to try out the Mac. If you are a PC user at work, the easiest way to introduce yourself to the advantages of a Mac is to get a Mac for your home. Once you have used a Mac at home for a while, you will probably want to use one in your office as well. But even if you never make the switch in your office – many law firms require only the use of PCs – many attorneys find that they prefer to use Macs at home. There are many advantages to using a Mac for your home computer, and even with a Mac at home you can continue to get your work done with an office PC environment.

A. The advantages of using a Mac at home

We’ve noted above many of the general advantages of using a Mac over a PC, and these are all reasons that a Mac is good in your home. Indeed, many of these factors are even more important in your home. For example, your office may have an IT department to help you when you get a virus, but the IT department in your home is likely to be just you. Having a home computer that doesn’t have viruses or other malware can be a real boon. But in addition to the reasons noted above, there are some additional specific reasons that a Mac is a particularly good computer for you and your family to use in your home.

One of the main uses of a home computer today is to manage your digital life – your digital photographs, video from your digital camera, your digital music, etc. In these areas, the programs that come built-in and free with every Mac shine, especially the suite of programs that Apple calls iLife. As Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal said it: “Out of the box, the Mac has better photo, music, video and DVD-creation software than any Windows computer I’ve seen.”

For digital photographs, Apple’s iPhoto is an easy to understand but powerful program for organizing your digital photographs. It automatically launches when you plug in your digital camera and allows you to perform all of the basic edits to your photographs (red eye, cropping, exposure, contrast, etc.) and even some more advanced editing techniques (such as a simple levels adjustment tool). It also allows you to easily print photos, order prints of your photos from Apple, or turn your photos into projects such as soft and hardcover books, calendars, etc. Just like on a PC, if you want to do more advanced editing, you’ll need to purchase extra software (such as Adobe’s Photoshop Elements for about $80), but having the essentials built in with iPhoto is very powerful.

For digital movies, Apple includes iMovie, an easy to use editor which allows you to quickly make short videos and then upload them for free to the web to a site such as YouTube or to your own website, which Apple will provide you with for an additional $80 a year via its .Mac service. Or you can save the movie to a DVD. iMovie is too limited to create sophisticated movies – for that you will need to pay to upgrade to a more powerful program such as Apple’s $200 Final Cut Express– but it has the advantage of being very fast, allowing you to get from a movie file on your video camera to a video that you can share with a minimum of fuss. If you are just looking to clean up and edit the video you took with your camera, maybe add a soundtrack and some special effects, and then share the video with your friends and family, iMovie will be all you need.

Another major use for a home computer is digital music, and it almost goes without saying that Apple is a leader in this field. Its iPod music player revolutionized the digital music market, and even many years after the iPod was introduced, Apple’s iPod still enjoys around 75% market share of all MP3 players. Apple’s iTunes software easily manages all of your digital music. Of course, you don’t need to own a Mac to use an iPod and iTunes, both of which have been available for PCs for many years now. However, with iTunes built-in with every Mac, every other program on the Mac that deals with music will always work with iTunes giving you a seamless environment.

Besides using home computer to manage your digital life, the other main uses of a home computer are browsing the web, word processing and e-mail. As Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal puts it, the Mac also “has a better free email program and Web browser than Windows does, a better free word processor and much better search capabilities.”

The Mac’s built-in web browser is called Safari. Safari is a powerful browser, but honestly, Safari has few unique advantages over similar PC programs when it comes to using the web. Safari is regularly updated with new features, but so are the primary Windows web browsers, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Mozilla’s Firefox. Indeed, for those who like Firefox, it is also available on the Mac, and just as many PC users prefer Firefox over Internet Explorer, many Mac uses prefer Firefox over Safari.

Unfortunately, there are also sometimes problems using a Mac to surf the web. A small number of websites are designed to work only with Internet Explorer because, for example, they depend upon Internet Explorer technologies such as ActiveX. Other times a website will not load properly in Safari, but it will load on the Mac version of Firefox. You don’t encounter these websites very often, and as Mac market share has increased over the last decade, even fewer companies are mandating the use of such technologies for their websites. But unfortunately, these sites still do exist.

As for word processing and e-mail, included free with every Mac is a powerful word processor (called Pages) and a powerful e-mail client (called Mail), but for reasons discussed in the next section, you’ll probably want to use Microsoft Office instead.

In short, for the main things that you will look for in a home computer that you and your children will use, the Mac will, almost always, truly shine. The built-in programs are easy to use and powerful. And because other programs know that these programs are built-in, other programs will virtually always work with them. The result is that all of your programs work well with each other, which makes it faster to do things and allows you to do even more with your computer.

B. Working at home on a Mac

So if a Mac is the perfect computer for you and your family to use at home, how does it hold up for those times when you want to get your work done at home? For the most part, it works great. There are some issues that you need to be aware of, but in our opinion, the advantages easily outweigh the disadvantages.

The one essential product for using your Mac as a lawyer is a copy of Microsoft Office. It sometimes surprises people that Microsoft has a long history with Mac. Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel were originally created not for Windows (which didn’t even exist at the time) but for the Mac back in 1984, the same year that the Mac itself was introduced. Microsoft has updated this software for over two decades, and the current version, introduced just a few months ago, is Office 2008. Office 2008 costs $400 and includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage. There is a “Home and Student edition” for only $150, but it does not include Entourage, which you will need if you want to connect to your office’s Exchange server. If you are looking to save money, find out if your law firm participates in Microsoft’s Home Use Program. Through that program, the site license for Microsoft Office that your law firm already pays for will entitle you to get a copy of Office for home use -- even the Mac version of Office -- for only $20. It’s a great deal.

One of the main things that you will want to do at home is keep up with your office e-mail. Depending upon the mail server that your office uses, you may be able to use the program that Apple includes for free with every Mac, called Mail. Mail is a very powerful and easy to use program. Unfortunately, if your office uses Microsoft Exchange, Mail may not work very well. Mail works okay if your office has enabled something called IMAP, but many businesses consider this a security risk and disable the feature. Without IMAP, if you try to connect to your office’s Exchange server using Mail, you will be able to read messages in your inbox, but messages that you delete in Mail will still show up when you use Outlook on your Office PC, sent mail will be saved to a different folder, and there are other quirks. Thus, while Mail is a very nice general purpose e-mail program, it is best to avoid using Mail if your law firm uses Exchange.

Fortunately, there are two other ways to use your office e-mail even if your law firm uses Microsoft Exchange. First, if your office has a web portal, you can use Safari or Firefox to access your e-mail on the web. Second, as noted above, the Mac version of Microsoft Office includes Entourage. Entourage allows your Mac to do just about everything that your PC can do with Outlook. You can use e-mail via your office’s Exchange server, you can use your office calendar, you can use your office address book, etc. Entourage is a solid program with a nice Mac interface.

When you are working at home and not using e-mail, you will most likely be using a word processor. Just as Microsoft Word is the dominant word processor for PCs, it is also the dominant word processor for Macs. The Mac version of Microsoft Word is powerful and works seamlessly with documents that you create on a PC. Moreover, the Mac version of Word keeps a Mac-like appearance, so you won’t feel like you are running a Windows program.

Office for the Mac also includes Excel and PowerPoint. Our experience is that Excel documents, like Word documents, work fine on a Mac. PowerPoint files open and edit just fine on the Mac, but you will need to be careful about adding graphics to a PowerPoint file on the Mac because some graphics formats won’t work on your PC. Thus, there is some trial and error involved with using PowerPoint on both platforms on a single file, but in general it does work fine.

You may also want to use your home computer to do online research, and now that Westlaw and Lexis are almost universally accessed via a web browser, you’ll find that accessing them on your Mac is really no different than accessing them on a PC.

The one area in which using a Mac at home can be an issue is if your office relies upon specialized software that is only available for the PC. For example, your firm may have contact management software that requires a PC client. Or your firm may use document management software such as Interwoven or DOCS Open. Even though many of these programs have web portal interfaces, those web portals often rely upon Internet Explorer-only technology. The only real solution is to use the solutions noted above for running Windows on your Mac. Fortunately, with those solutions, you can easily run your document management program (using Windows) in one window while the rest of your computer is Mac. Beware that when you run Windows on your home computer, you are subject to all of the problems of Windows, including viruses. The viruses won’t touch your Mac programs, but the will cause the same interference with your Windows programs that you would see if you were running a normal Windows computer.

While the Mac version of Office is a great product, note that there are some important differences between Office on the PC and Office on the Mac. For example, your firm may have add-on programs for the PC version of Office such as a metadata filter, connectivity with a firm-wide contact management system, or connectivity with a document management system such as Interwoven or DOCS Open; those add-ons will not work with Entourage on the Mac. Also, Office for Mac does not support Visual Basic. If you really need to use those features on your Mac, you will have to run those programs in Windows, using one of the techniques noted above. Or, if you use a PC laptop and you have it with you at home, you may find it just as easy to use your work laptop for those features.

One of the realities of being a lawyer is that the work doesn’t stop just because you leave the office. Fortunately, you can make your home computer a Mac and continue to get your work done when you get home. There are a few tradeoffs, but there are also many benefits, and overall you are likely to come out ahead by using a Mac at home.

III. Using Macs at Your Office

If you decide to switch your office computer to a Mac, here is what you will use:

A. Hardware Options

One thing that you will notice is that everything is easier with Macs. If you’ve ever had to buy a PC, you are faced with literally thousands of hardware options from hundreds of manufacturers. Should you buy a computer made by Dell, Sony, HP, Compaq, or your local computer guy? Even worse, you then had to worry about which components would actually be inside the shell and whether they would all work together? I remember how frustrating and confusing it was to sort through the myriad of choices, and it routinely took me many hours over several weeks – when all I wanted to do was just get a new computer.

By way of contrast, your choices when buying an Apple computer are very easy to navigate and understand. Apple’s entire computer line can be summed up in a few sentences. For the most part, you just have two simple choices: (1) do you want a desktop or a laptop? and (2) do you want a “regular” model or a high-end model? By answering those two questions, you will narrow your Mac decision down to one or two options, and then you choose a screen size, decide how much RAM you want, and select a hard drive size – and you’re done!

Since most attorneys prefer laptops, they will basically be choosing (as of early January, 2008) between the MacBook and the MacBook Pro. The best options for desktop models for themselves and/or their staff generally are the iMac or the Mac mini. The iMac features a one-piece unit containing the monitor and CPU, and it is quite stylish. An ultra-powerful Mac Pro is also available for those that need eight-core power.

B. Software Options

The software that most attorneys use in their day-to-day practice falls into the categories listed below. The examples listed under each category are those with which your presenters have hands on experience.

Case Management Software

Daylite from Marketcircle Inc. is a full-featured customer/client and project/case manager for the Mac. It is fully customizable, and it manages your contacts, calendars, tasks/to-do’s, notes, etc. Daylite allows you to connect various types of documents (such as .doc, .xls, .pdf, .jpg, web links, etc.) to specific client files and then to organize and even open those files from within Daylite. You can schedule and delegate appointments, create to-do's, print reports, and send emails all from within Daylite. It is fully networkable so you can connect to it locally, through your office network, or over the Internet. You can even create offline databases that can be modified on the road and later synchronized with the main database.

Another viable option for case management is LawStream Pro from PowerSoft Innovations Corp. This is an all-in-one office management program that does the following: scheduling (limitations, appointments, rules-based reminders, shared reminders), communication (quick letters, notes, memos, envelopes), document control (including variables, and organizing and management of document status), contact management (including conflict avoidance), detailed reporting capabilities, and much more.

Other Organization Software

If there is one product that can best demonstrate the creative possibilities the Mac allows, it is without a doubt Circus Ponies’ Notebook, which is described on its website as “a combination outliner and free-form database that lets you clip, annotate, and share unstructured information.” Notebooks can contain outline pages, free-form pages, or any combination. Its pages can contain text, graphics, audio, video, imported data -- virtually anything you can imagine. You can copy and paste items into the pages, type information in directly, or even use “clipping services,” which allow you to automatically insert data into a specified notebook page, even if you are not using Notebook at the time. Notebook features automatic indexing of all information, which means that everything placed into a Notebook is automatically placed into 14 indexes for easy location and retrieval later. Notebook can be used to organize information in the office or for use at trial. All of a file’s documents can be attached to a specified page, such as correspondence, pleadings, orders, etc. Witness outlines can include links to other pages or items (both within and outside Notebook). For instance, your notes on a given topic can include images, charts, audio clips, video deposition snippets, and other items for quick and easy retrieval. Notebook makes it easy to concentrate on what you need to present, rather than on how you should present it.

Apple’s operating system (OS X Leopard) includes some basic organizational tools that may be sufficient for a very small firm or solo practitioner. Address Book keeps track of contact information, such as address, telephone numbers, email address, and comments. Apple Mail now includes the ability to easily create to-dos and notes, which can include links, attachments, and data from emails. You can also schedule appointments in iCal and/or set alarms for yourself, all from within Mail. Finally, iChat gives you the ability to have free video conferences, and it comes standard as part of OS X.

Time & Billing Software

In addition to its case management capabilities listed above, LawStream Pro also has the following functions: timekeeping (including multi-timers, disbursement tracking, productivity reports), billing (detail bills, narrative bills, individual billing, bulk billing), accounting (trust, general ledger, payables, receivables, management reports), productivity control (including reports that relate recorded time, billed time, billable time, fees billed, and cash received), and much more.

Marketcircle, the creator of Daylite, also makes a program called Billings 2, which handles basic time and billing functions. This program is still fairly new, and major improvements have been made over the last year. The major drawback to this program is that it is not multi-user or networkable at present, which is a major limitation to all but very small firms and/or solo practitioners.

EasyTime is being actively developed by Bright Light Software, and new features are being added on a consistent basis. This program is specifically designed for law firms, and it is networkable. The developer’s stated goal is to develop EasyTime into a full time billing, case and document managing system.

A completely different option that firms may want to consider is FreshBooks. This product is a web 2.0 application, meaning that it runs online with no software to install on your own computer. Being cross-platform, it will work on both Macs and PCs, and it is accessible from anywhere with internet access. FreshBooks can be configured to enable your clients to access and pay their bills online, and it will even print and mail your invoices for a nominal cost.

Word Processing and Spreadsheets

As noted above, if you are familiar with the Windows version of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), then you are familiar with the Mac versions. These programs work the same in both operating systems, and the files are interchangeable between the two. In other words, if you want to open a Word document that someone created on a PC using the Windows version, you will have no problems at all doing so.

While you are most likely to use Microsoft Office applications, there are alternatives that some people prefer. NeoOffice is a free, open-source set of office applications, including Writer (word processing), Calc (spreadsheet), and Impress (presentation). This full-featured program allows you to import, edit, and exchange files with other popular office programs such as Microsoft Office. Nisus Writer Pro also has a lot of fans because of its simple interface and powerful text management features.

Apple’s iWork software package includes Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. Pages is a word processing and page layout program that can create stunning letters, reports, proposals, and other office documents. Files can be imported, exported, or saved in many formats, including .doc, .rtf, and .pdf. Numbers is a spreadsheet program that many users find easier to use than Excel. As with Pages, you can import, export, or save your spreadsheets in many different formats including .xls, .csv, and .pdf.

Presentation

If you purchase Microsoft Office, then you will have PowerPoint. This software is just as useful on a Mac as it is on Windows.

Having said that, we believe that PowerPoint is vastly eclipsed by Apple’s Keynote. This program, part of the iWork suite, enables you to make Hollywood quality presentations, quickly and easily. Forbes.com asked back in 2003, “How does Keynote stack up against PowerPoint? The snapshot summary of our head-to-head user test of the two programs is that they fundamentally do the same thing, and do it well, but Keynote does it with a superior elegance and simplicity of use that is Apple's design trademark.” Now, quickly imagine how much progress has been made in the four plus years since that article was written. For instance, Keynote now allows you to animate elements within slides; edit elements to remove background items; save Keynote presentations in cross-platform QuickTime movies; export them to Apple’s iDVD, while preserving chapter breaks between slides; and even to export your Keynote presentation to the PowerPoint format.

TrialSmart is a trial presentation package that enables transcript-to-video synching, exhibit presentation, and video clip editing. The Exhibit Presenter component allows you to redact or callout information, insert notations, use arrows/lines, zoom or magnify, rotate, and highlight. Also support use of Apple’s dual-monitor capabilities to enable only you to see your work until you’re ready for your audience to see it.

iMovie, part of Apple’s iLife suite, can be used to conduct your own video depositions. Imagine being able to show video clips at trial to impeach a witness instead of simply reading from a transcribed deposition. Which do you think would get (and hold) a jury’s attention better? With Apple’s built-in software and a minimal hardware investment, you can begin taking video depositions tomorrow.

Preview is an application included as part of Apple’s OS X that acts as a “jack-of-all-trades” viewer. It will open and view most file formats, including .pdf, .jpg, and .png. It allows you to zoom in and out, rotate the images, and save your changes. There are basic features for adding annotations and highlighting, and it can even serve as a very basic presenter.

Practice-Specific Software

Attorneys that specialize in a particular area of the law will undoubtedly have certain software programs aimed at their area of practice. For instance, family law attorneys use child support calculators, real estate attorneys use different packages to assist with their closings, and bankruptcy attorneys have programs to assist with their filings. These programs tend to overwhelmingly be “Windows-only” programs, which can be frustrating. However, through the use of virtualization programs noted above, Mac users can run any Windows program when necessary, all while still being able to enjoy all the benefits that Macs provide.

About the Authors

Ben Stevens practices family law in Spartanburg, SC with Stevens - MacPhail, P.A. Ben publishes The Mac Lawyer blog, and he frequently speaks on legal technology topics, including using Macs in the practice of law.

Jeff Richardson is a partner in the New Orleans office of Adams and Reese LLP, where his practice areas include class actions and other complex litigation. He is the chair of the Louisiana State Bar Association's Technology Committee.

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