PowerPoint Tips, Tricks, & Hacks: Everything You Should Know about How to NOT Ruin a Presentation

Discusses how to make a presentation better with PowerPoint than it would be without it. Provides understanding of what does and does not work when using software in conjunction with a verbal presentation. Offers many tips and lessons that are general enough to apply to other presentation software, like Keynote or Google Slides

Dunning-Kruger and You: Evaluating Your Technological Competence with the Legal Tech Audit

There’s an enormous skill set you must develop as an attorney. One skill that is too often neglected, though, is the ability to utilize technology to ease the burden of all your tasks for the benefit or your firm, your client, and most importantly, yourself. This paper is a public service announcement, a reminder to question your preconceptions about what you do and how you do it. It’s a cautionary warning, the one discussed previously about the new ABA comment regarding an attorney’s duty of competence regarding technology. Just because you’re doing fine with technology doesn’t mean you can’t be doing more, doing it better, or doing it faster

Checking Bankruptcy Court? There’s an App for That: Mobile Technology for the Legal Professional

Provides descriptions of useful computer programs designed to add functionality or perform particular tasks (apps), specifically designed to aid attorneys in their practice. Includes subscription-based apps, primary material apps, and general legal apps of special merit

Don\u27t Panic: The Lawyer’s Guide to Making Your Own Mobile App

Provides overview of steps used to create a personal mobile app

The Blockchain Explained, or How to Make Lots of Money in Cryptocurrency

The School of Law\u27s Information Technology Librarian summarizes blockchain, the current impact is having on business, finance and e-commerce, and the potential implications for our not so distant future as it pertains to the law

Apps to make your work easier pp.14-15

Information Technology Librarian Jason Tubinis highlights mobile apps that are tailored toward those in the legal profession

Hack the Planet! -- Cybersecurity Tips to Keep You, Your Data, and Your Clients Safe

It is really easy to make you, your practice, and your clients safe from being the victims of a cyber-crime. This paper will discuss some tips, tricks, and considerations you can implement quickly, safely, and on the cheap. These are relatively simple suggestions, though. You should be able to implement most of these practices within an hour, and while they will save you from the most common security flaws Bad Guys are looking to exploit

New Technology and the Practice of Law: Gear for Your Office and the Road

Provides guidance to legal professionals about ways that technology can make their practices more efficient, secure, and mobile. Includes discussion of hardware gadgets, helpful websites, and tips for comparing legal databases., as well as ethics considerations of electronic files

Cracking the Communication Code: Tools and Strategies for Savvy Project Management

From system administrator to web developer, and from management of electronic resources to the curation of hoards of metadata, the names and nature of coding librarians takes many forms. And with those many different titles and tasks come an equally diverse array of projects we find ourselves involved in: regular database maintenance, emergency triage and repair, large-scale or institution-wide upgrades, etc. In this otherwise varied set of responsibilities, the importance of well-defined roles and clear channels for communication are universal keys to success. In this short session we will present a variety of tools we, and other librarians, have found helpful when managing day-to-day and long-term projects. We will also share best practices for defining what each channel is for the purpose of integrating responsibility assignment matrices/RACI charts into your teams

Law Review Cite Checking

Bluebook and cite checking for law review, presented by the law library. This session is only for members of the Georgia Law Review, the Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law, and the Journal of Intellectual Property Law