Legal Tech Mastery: Tools for Managing Remote Teams Efficiently

A pre-recorded streaming VIDEO replay of one session from the January 2024 webcast, Legal Tech Mastery: Streamline Your Practice with Microsoft Word, Outlook, and Tools for Managing Remote Teams Efficiently.

Using Technology to Manage a Distributed Workforce and Work Together Seamlessly

The new normal for law offices in the post-COVID era includes working remotely (part or full time). As such, the ability to run a law practice, render services, and manage people without a traditional physical office is critical.

• The surprising benefits of remote workers
• What you need for practice portability
• The ethical and security issues related to protecting client data when that data is being accessed from outside a traditional office space
• Recommendations for improving communication, keeping everyone connected, collaboration, and remote employee management
• Extending your cybersecurity umbrella to home workers
• Configuring an efficient and secure home office
• Building a reliable electronic client filing system that is accessible from anywhere
• Technologies that enable lawyers to draft even the most complex documents without assistance, even if they don’t know anything about the word processor
• Digital signature platforms
• Case management and legal accounting systems that provide unlimited remote access
• How to eliminate the need for traditional, on-premises file servers that typically provide no or poor remote access

Faculty

Barron K. Henley, Affinity Consulting Group / Columbus, OH

Barron K. Henley, Esq., is one of the founding partners of Affinity Consulting Group, a legal technology consulting firm focused on automating and streamlining law firms and legal departments. He earned his B.S./B.A. (marketing and economics) and J.D. from The Ohio State University and is a member of the American, Ohio and Columbus Bar Associations, and the Worthington Estate Planning Council. He is a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management, a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a member of Ohio Supreme Court Commission on Technology and the Courts, and a member of both the ABA Law Practice Management and the Real Property Trust and Estate Law (“RPTE”) Sections, Co-Chair of the Joint Law Practice Management Group, a Board Member for the ABA TECHSHOW, and a Director on the Columbus Bar Services Board. Mr. Henley heads Affinity’s document assembly/automation and software training departments. He is also an expert in launching new law firms, overhauling existing firms, and documenting and re-engineering law firm processes. Finally, Mr. Henley teaches continuing legal education (CLE) classes throughout the U.S. and Canada, covering a wide variety of topics related to law practice management, technology, and ethics.