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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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