Is it a tablet?…is it a phone?… no it is both! Or should we say a bit of both – while it is large for a phone it is very small for a tablet. From my experience I found it to be a good device with solid performance.

A growing trend these days is where staff, partners and consultants walk into your firm and demand that their latest gadget be connected to the network - gone are the days of IT departments dictating what device gets used at the office. This picture of Dilbert is a classic representation of the situation...

People wear out their arrow keys on the keyboard. Instead of jumping to the beginning of a document they use the arrow keys to scroll to the top of the document - if being paid by the hour I suppose it is one way to pass the time. Let's educate everyone about a simple quick key that is often over looked.

A Mafia Godfather finds out that his bookkeeper, Guido, has cheated him out of $10,000,000.00. His bookkeeper is deaf. That was the reason he got the job in the first place.  It was assumed that Guido would hear nothing so he would not have to testify in court.

There is a revolution happening in the legal profession as more and more small to medium-sized law firms are starting to sell legal agreements and contracts via the Internet.  In his book “The End of Lawyers?” UK legal technology futurist Richard Susskind predicted a constant shift towards commoditisation in the legal profession.  With online document assembly tools like XpressDox for the Cloud, his predictions are now becoming reality.  Until recently, document assembly software for the Internet was too expensive for all but the really large law firms.  But now all that has changed.

Every now and then there is a name that just wraps up what a company does, like one of my old favourites..."Human and Pitt Funeral Services" in Somerset West. But on the legal side, I recon that this firm has the practise perfected..

A simple but often forgotten command, is using the quick key to jump left or right one word at a time.

The Avantedge Group, incorporating Legal Interact, pride themselves on being a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner. This ensures that the strictest standards are adhered to in all areas of their software business.

AJS’ “Swift” the legal accounting and practice management system for small to medium-sized law firms had an outstanding April by signing up 8 new clients around South Africa.

Two lawyers are in a bank, when, suddenly, armed robbers burst in, waving guns and yelling for everyone to freeze.

AJS Legal Accounting and Practice Management in Cape Town recently moved into new offices on the M5, halfway between the N1 and N2.