The New Battleground: Searching your Desktop

The desktop is the next frontier to be tamed by software vendors such as Google and Microsoft.  Both have tools that index the files on your PC and provide a quick and fairly painless way to search and locate your data files.  If you're not sure which to try and want to know more about the features and functionality, then be sure to read this article.  Read more.

Cleaning Up:  Spyware Tools for Today

It seems that spyware is here to stay.  So what can you do to eradicate this pest or at least minimize the annoyance and potential damage?  Read more.

Re-evaluating the Role of Technology in a Law Firm

From a simple word processor, to a cost of doing business, to mission-critical; some would argue where technology falls on that spectrum, but it is changing.  Part technology-driven, part client-driven, technology is becoming a critical component of the legal landscape.  Where once faxes dominated the landscape, e-mail and its ubiquitous presence anywhere, anytime now dominate client-attorney communication.  Asking an attorney how long they can live without technology and email is like asking how long can you live without your phone.  Read more.

KKL Speaks Out!

Glasser Legal Works - San Francisco
E-mail Management 2005: How to Meet Today's Challenges
Friday March 18, 10:30am - 11:30am

Mike Georgopoulos, KKL managing consultant participates on this panel presentation that focuses on today's challenging issues of e-mail management in law firms and legal departments. Items to be discussed will include administering the exponential growth of e-mail, spamming issues, integrating e-mail with other systems, protecting employees from a hostile workplace, storing and retaining e-mail as business records, setting policies and provide adequate training and much more.

Chief Information & Technology Officers Conference - New York
 Disaster Recovery, High Availability and Disaster Avoidance
Wednesday April 6, 4:15 - 5:15

Peter Lesser is participating on a panel that will address systems consolidation, co-location of data centers and IS staffing and related issues.

Interwoven Legal IT Leadership Seminar - Marina Del Rey
Organization and Strategic Management of IT in Large Law Firms
April 11 - 15

Peter Lesser is presenting a session that addresses the external and internal pressures, the changes and improvements in technology and the resulting impact on how IT is managed at large law firms.  The trends that affect these decisions and the best practices in implementing those strategies will be the focus of this session.  Specific areas to be considered include:

•  Internal configuration of IT services and IT Management
• Centralization vs. decentralization (technology, people and jurisdictional  issues)
• Thin client (Citrix)
• Outsourcing

Join KKL at the ALA National Conference

We look forward to seeing you at the ALA National Conference in April in San Francisco.  Be sure to visit us at booth 232!  Stayed tuned for more information.

This Month's Answer

Instead of dragging the fill handle (which is the little black crosshair you see in the lower right hand corner of a highlighted cell, double click on the fill handle and it should copy the formula down the range of cells until it hits a blank cell.   For example:

In cell A1:A10 type random numbers
In cell B1:B10 type random numbers
In cell C1 type =a1*b1, then press Enter
Click back on cell C1 so that is the active cell

Now double click on the fill handle and watch the formula copy through C2 to C10.