This year a new podcast focusing on access to justice issues has been launched by the Oklahoma Access to Justice Foundation. The Oklahoma Justice Exchange podcast now has five episodes online and they are very informative. Most of these should be of interest to any listener, although several will be of particular interest to lawyers since the subject matter involves
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I am not familiar with the 404 Media podcast, but their feature 18 Lawyers Caught Using AI Explain Why They Did It is worth a read. We have certainly well past that time where perhaps judges were unfamiliar with the AI and would give early adopting lawyers some benefit of the doubt for errors. But now every judge has learned
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The Oklahoma Access to Justice Foundation has released a thought-provoking report on fee waivers in district court civil proceedings in our state. While I’m certain everyone in the foundation supported or assisted, I’d like to single out primary authors Emily Carr and Jacqueline Chin, University of Oklahoma law students who interned for the foundation this summer. This excellent report reflects
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The September 2025 issue of ABA Law Practice Magazine has a finance theme. Mark Robertson and I wrote the lead story for it, Value Billing in an Age of Artificial Intelligence. Since AI specifically, and office automation tools generally, impact many aspects of the future of billing for legal services, I’m going to immodestly suggest that most lawyers should
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As those of you who follow this blog know by now, I have retired from my position with the Oklahoma Bar Association after 28 years.
Going forward, no one is responsible for my posts going forward but me. And, as my inner lawyer might observe, there most probably wasn’t any realistic responsibility before. You can cover a lot of legal
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by Jim Calloway
OBA Management Assistance Program
(Originally published Oklahoma Bar Journal March 7, 1998 – Vol. 69; No. 10. Reprinted with permission.)
Note: I’m going to spend the next few days republishing some posts and articles that are difficult to locate and still have some value. I note that this article, originally published in 1998 when I had been
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After a lengthy hiatus, I am returning to posting on my blog, Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips.
Part of the reason I will be returning to blogging is that I am retiring from my position as Director of the Oklahoma Bar Association Management Assistance Program after 28 years of giving technology and practice management advice to lawyers. The blog will
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Have you ever received an email that required your attention, but you didn’t have time to deal with it right away?
Maybe it was a project update, a client request, or a feedback form. You probably thought, “I’ll get back to this later,” and moved on to other tasks. But then, hours or days later, you realized that you forgot
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By Jim Calloway
Lawyers have held and safeguarded client data for generations. Of course, in the past, it wasn’t called data. Our data was in paper client files, forms to “go by” and brief banks.
While it wasn’t planned this way in advance, my most recent Law Practice Tips columns blend as a series. In the January 2024 Oklahoma Bar
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Judge Scott Schlegel from Louisiana was a speaker at the 2023 Oklahoma Access to Justice Summit. Last year, I noted his conviction that both courts and law firms should embrace text message reminders to reduce failure-to-appear issues. Lawyers want to make certain their clients, especially potential new clients, do not miss their scheduled appointments as well as any court
Continue Reading Artificial intelligence development dominated discussions of technological advancement in 2023.
Decades ago, I assumed that technology would soon advance to the point where automated document assembly would be fully incorporated in most law offices across the country. While great strides have been made in law office technology tools, and tools for automatically generating documents are much improved over what was available decades previously, many law firms still have not fully
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Years ago, I put together a presentation called “The Client-Centered Law Practice.” It focused on the irony that while law firms focused on serving clients and appropriately addressing their legal needs, clients sometimes had an impression that differed from that. To those (hopefully few) clients, it seemed that the law firm was busily engaged doing important work for other, very
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2023 cast a huge spotlight on Artificial Intelligence tools. That means it is a great year to attend ABA TECHSHOW, which will be held in Chicago February 14 – 17, 2024. But it is time to decide now! The Early Bird registration ends on Friday, January 11 and there is a price increase after that deadline. 
Those who have
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It’s that special time of year. By that I mean it is time for the Tech Toys for the Holiday episode from the Digital Edge podcast. Sharon Nelson and I both agree that it is our favorite podcast of the year and many of our listeners tell us the same thing.
This year we have a wide range of tech
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By Jim Calloway and Julie Bays
In August’s Law Practice Tips column, “ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence and the Lawyer,”we covered the development of AI tools and some
challenges they have presented to attorneys who did not appreciate the limitations of ChatGPT. This month, we will look at more AI-powered tools and techniques for using them.
DOCUMENT AND DEPOSITION SUMMARIES
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