The Tech Savvy Lawyer

Tom Lambotte is a cybersecurity expert who has been in the tech support industry for over a decade. Tom's mission is to help entrepreneurs grow by leveraging technology. He founded BobaGuard in 2019, which offers a suite of turnkey solutions to help protect solo lawyers and small law firms from getting hacked. BobaGuard was born out of a passion to make the latest cybersecurity solutions accessibl...

Debra Moss Vollweiler is a tenured Professor of Law at Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad College of Law , in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. She recently served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs for five years, as well as Interim Dean of the College of Law through the onset of the global pandemic. She has published more than thirty works on professionalism, teaching, learning, and attorney disc...

Our next guest is EMMY-winning Video Expert, Media & Branding Strategist Laressa Watlington.  As co-founder of LawFirmVideos.com , Laressa helps Attorneys, Celebrities, Entrepreneurs, and Realtors master their media presence, shine on camera, and broadcast their message to grow their business, presence, and success!  She can help you present your message on camera! Join Laressa and me as we discus...

Our Next Guest is Gordon Van Wechel.  Gordon is the Founder & Chief Alchemist of The Alchemy Consulting Group .  For nearly two decades, Alchemy has been helping hundreds of small to medium size businesses and professional practices develop marketing and business growth plans that have brought millions of dollars in added revenue.  Gordon and I discuss not only how attorneys should handle their on...

Jamie is a Florida-based trial attorney with decades of trial experience. He participated in the first "virtual" trial to ever be held in the United States. Join us as I interview Jamie from his firm's "Zoom" conference room. We discuss his effective use of virtual conference room technology to help his practice thrive with the following three questions: Q1: What Are Jamie's Top Three Pieces Of So...

Our next guest is Elizabeth "Lisa" Peck! Lisa is a 30-year veteran in the employment and civil rights arena.  She is currently based in California practicing at her firm Peck-Law, Employment & Civil Rights .  When Lisa is not out in nature mountain bike racing or skiing, Lisa is preparing and managing her cases using the LitSoftware bundle.  Lisa's use of LitSoftware inspired me to reach out to he...

Our next guest is Kathy Campbell. Kathy is an entrepreneur as a virtual assistant over at www. TheUnicornSidekick.com . I came across Kathy listing to a Mac Power Users episode ( #601: Soup Blasphemy with Kathy Campbell ). I had been hesitant about using a VA given most VAs tend to be on Windows based PCs. But I liked what I heard about what Kathy does for her clients and that she is Mac based. Si...

Tom is the Founder and CEO of Lawdroid. LawDroid is an intelligent automation company with a mission to promote Justice Everywhere! Tom has used his 20 years of experience as a lawyer to build and maintain LawDroid's "LAWDROID BUILDER": A no-code legal automation platform that allows you to systematize your expertise, scale your law firm's services, save time, money and improve the client experien...

My next guest is Alykhan "AJ" Jetha. AJ is the President and CEO of Marketcircle, Inc. Marketcircle is developer of small business software for the Mac, iPhone and iPad including the client relations management program Daylite *. I am super excited to have AJ on as a guest as I use Daylite in my law practice. As you will hear, I got a little overly excited as I asked additional questions beyond my...

Melanie Leonard is the owner of Streamlined. Legal.  Streamlined. Legal helps attorneys streamline their office by getting the most out of their practice management software.  This in turn helps to provide attorneys peace of mind.  An office that runs more efficiently allows attorneys to focus on their more important work. Join Melanie and I as we discuss the following: 1. What are three simple wo...

My next guest is Alyease Jones. Alyease is a Family Law Attorney in Chicago. I came across Alyease in a recent ABA article: Unbundled law firms find success offering virtual legal services . Alyease helps families who are in transition by offering equal access to justice while delivering quality, affordable family law services. Join Alyease and I as we discuss using computers and technology to pra...

My next guest is Laura O'Bryan. Laura is co-founder of  MyVirtual. Lawyer . I came across Laura in a recent ABA article:  Unbundled law firms find success offering virtual legal services . MyVirtual. Lawyer helps make quality legal assistance available and affordable to everyone, everywhere by connecting clients with its virtual lawyers. Its platform helps clients find reasonably-priced attorneys...

Spring is here! I invited Margaret Martin, owner of Bungalow Tech, to talk about spring cleaning your office's technology - from determining what to keep, what and how to store, how to dispose of protected hardware properly, and more! Her company provides technical support and tutoring for Apple products in people's homes and businesses. Margaret provides COVID-Compliant one-on-one technical suppo...

Steve Ryan is the CEO and founder of RyTech . Steve saw an unmet need in an expanding digital market. Through RyTech, Steve partners with businesses to help keep up with the changing digital landscape, especially when it isn't one person's primary responsibility. What started as nights and weekends at Steve's kitchen table has transformed into an award-winning digital marketing firm working with c...

My next guest is Dorna Moini. Dorna is the CEO and co-founder of Documate , a no-code platform for building document automation and client-facing legal apps. Prior to starting Documate, Dorna was a litigator at Sidley Austin . There, in her pro bono practice, she worked with legal aid organizations to build a web application for domestic violence survivors to complete and file their paperwork, whi...

My next guest is Adriana Linares. Adriana is the owner of LawTech Partners . At LawTech Partners, Adriana provides law firm management consulting, legal technology assessments, migrations to cloud-based services and law office software training. She assists law firms, legal departments, legal aid groups and Bar associations. Adriana specializes in helping individual lawyers and law firms become mo...

I am excited to have back (Episode 3.1 , 3.2 ) your pal and mine, David Sparks. David is a California based attorney and host of the ever popular Mac Power Users. In addition to several other podcasts that David hosts, David has also published several field guide manuals on computers, software and workflows at learn.macsparky.com . Although these field guides are driven for the Mac user, many of t...

Mark Homer is founder and CEO of the law firm marketing agency Get Noticed Get Found , Mark brings over twenty-five years of experience in marketing and technology to help lawyers grow their law firm business. He leads an amazing team that delivers effective results to clients with a focus on matching marketing strategies to a law firm's business goals. Through his best-selling book, Online Law Pr...

COVID has turned our lives upside down.  As we are all trying to figure out the norm, the state bar associations, to their credit, are trying to move forward.  Unfortunately, the news has reflected that it has not been a smooth process for some bar examinees. Join CA Ethics Attorney and returning podcast guest Megan Zavieh as we take an in-depth discussion of the tech problems from the last bar ex...

Deborah Savadra is a current legal assistant at a large U.S. law firm, a former IT consultant, and the owner of the Legal Office Guru website.  She teaches lawyers and other professionals how to produce their legal work products better, faster & easier with Microsoft Word.  Too often, I have had to train new law clerks and show other attorneys functions in MS Word that make writing and formatting...

2020 is almost at an end and the TSL.P Podcast season is almost over! Before the year escapes us, I am providing with a list of "guilty pleasures" our prior guests have shared with us! The clips from this compilation have never been published and will hopefully give you some ideas about spending/doing a little something specially for yourself, loved one or friend this Holiday Season! Special Thank...

My next guest is Erin Levine. Erin is a California Divorce Attorney based in the East Bay. She has taken her 15 years of legal experience to the internet and started the DIY divorce service, "Hello Divorce." You'll be impressed by not only the great web platform she created but also by how she used various DIY software to help her create her own web business separate from her law practice! Erin an...

My next guest is Skylar Young. Skylar is a University of Illinois at Chicago's John Marshall Law School student and a "Virtual" Law Clerk with Vandenack Weaver LLC located in Omaha, NB (that is two states or 450+ miles away!). Skylar is the 2020 recipient of the McCready Law Cyberbullying Awareness Scholarship and former legislative liaison for the Chicago Bar Association's Cyber Law & Data Privac...

My next guest is David Lowe . David is a partner at the San Francisco-based law firm Rudy Exelrod Zieff & Lowe. He litigates individual and class action employment matters on behalf of employees. David also a neutral mediator with a highly successful record of assisting parties to resolve their disputes. I came across David in a recent ABA Article about Zoom trials, Trial by Zoom: A strange but tr...

My next guest is Erin H. Gerstenzang. I recently come across Erin from a webinar presentation and thought she'd be a great guest on the TSL.P Podcast! Erin is a Top-Rated Atlanta criminal defense attorney, a nationwide lecturer and a presenter at the ABA TECHSHOW s. Her courtroom experience has enabled her to successfully defend DUI, probation violations, traffic tickets, and other misdemeanor and...