Comments on: Carolyn Elefant a Mac using Attorney (Guest Post)

By: My Shingle

My Shingle — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:54:54 +0000

Some Tech Round Up: LawTech Talk, MILO Conference

Here's a quick round-up of a couple of tech related items of use for solos. For a limited time, Nicole Black of Law Tech Talk is making her screencast on using online tools for case preparation available at no charge….

By: My Shingle

My Shingle — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:13:55 +0000

Celebrate MyShingle's 6th Birthday With Two Great Contests

Close to midnight six years ago, I pushed a button and with this post, launched MyShingle into cyberspace. I didn't have a grand plan or scheme — to be honest, I hardly qualified to write a blog about solo and…

By: G.R. Pico

G.R. Pico — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:06:21 +0000

Great story. It came up as I am looking into purchasing a Macbook for use at my law office.
It is amazing how many young lawyers have had to go through the same rites of passage (torture) in transitioning from Macs in College and Law School to PCs. As a Summer Associate during law school, I carried my own Mac into the office only to be told that I had to use a PC. Upon becoming a full-time Associate at the same firm, I asked for an iBook laptop instead of a PC desktop and also was turned down.
I have been the principal in my own firm for six years. Until now, the only issue holding me back from purchasing a Mac for work was the fact that we have always used WordPerfect as our primary word processing software (I still feel it is far superior to Word).
From what I have read so far, it seems that a MacBook can now run WordPerfect (with Parallels or Bootcamp). Before I invest time and money (in the case of Parallels), however, I intend to look into NeoOffice, which seems to enable the user to retrieve and work on WordPerfect files within the Mac OS setting.
Thanks for your article and good luck with your book.

By: ck

ck — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 19:12:36 +0000

In the prehistoric days, data from incompatible OSs were quite compatible if run from one computer to another through a modem, using plain text. With a 300 baud modem, text would come through like on a telex machine, but it worked. Of course, the modem might have cost more than a Apple Mini costs now.
A modem would also allow you to access one of the 600 bulletin board systems in the DC area but I recall running into only one lawyer, though quite a few Apple users.

By: pracdl

pracdl — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:33:34 +0000

You can install parallels or apple bootcamp in your macbook and run Windows software such as WordPerfect. With Parallels, you can switch from one OS to the other, while with BootCamp you select the OS you want to use when you boot the machine. I'm about to get my MacBook too!

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:41:44 +0000

great story. i still haven't bought my mac!

By: hmurchison

hmurchison — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:12:18 +0000

Excellent read I enjoyed this very much.

By: University Update

University Update — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:03:31 +0000

Carolyn Elefant a Mac using Attorney (Guest Post)