Year after year, without fail, the best-attended and most highly rated presentations at ABA TECHSHOW® are the "60 Tips in 60 Minutes" sessions. These fast-paced presentations are packed with practical bite-size nuggets of information. For those that aren’t familiar with this format, these are fast-paced presentations in which 3 or 4 of our best ABA TECHSHOW presenters actually run through 60 or more slides in 60 minutes.

A tip might show you a simple way to improve client service, manage your time or avoid an ethics trap. Or it might tell you of a really useful Web site, an underused but essential feature of a software program, or a simple and effective way to market yourself. Whatever it’s about, you listen and you get it—and you go back to work and put the tip to use the very next day.

Now, I will admit I get more exited about tips than most (OK, more than everyone), but few if any presentations pack more information and education into 60 minutes. It is a guarantee that everyone walks out of an ABA TECHSHOW tips presentation with at least a few nuggets. Exclamations of "wow – I didn’t know you could do that" are frequently heard. Each year at least a few attendees tell us "that was the best presentation I have ever seen".

Well, for all those that can’t make it to TECHSHOW, we thought, why not take the same approach for the ABA TECHSHOW issue of Law Practice? So we’ve tapped some ABA TECHSHOW speakers and favorite writers for their best tips on using technology to tune up your practice. They’ve covered some hot trends and topics for your reading pleasure. Read them here.

Squeezing Your Office into the Palm of Your Hand

Impressing (Not Annoying) Judges 

Going Paperless

Pleasing Clients with Top-Notch Communications

Taming Voice Recognition Software

Leveraging Google Tools

Hot New Web Sites

Billing More Time

Enjoy the tips! And, if you really like them, please consider coming to see us at TECHSHOW next year.

PS: Do You Have Tech Tips to share? We want to hear from you – share your wisdom with your fellow LawPracticeToday e-zine readers. Send your best practical and helpful tips to LawPracticeMagazine@gmail.com. The best will be published by the ABA Law Practice Management Section.

—Dan Pinnington, Guest Editor Law Practice Magazine, April 2008 Issue

Dan Pinnington writes the Tips & Tricks column for Law Practice, is Editor of Law Practice Today webzine, and is a past chair of ABA TECHSHOW.