Mr. Atherton, during his tenure as Chairman of the Vermont Bar Association's Technology/Economics in the Law Office, wrote a Tech Tips column for the quarterly Vermont Bar Journal and Law Digest. The following are reprints of published articles:

• Protecting Critical Data   March 2001 - practical tips on how to protect your firm's electronic data from a wide variety of computer maladies.

• E-Collaboration   December 2000 - simple ways that attorneys can utilize the power of the Internet to improve collaboration with clients, co-counsel, opposing counsel, witnesses and the court.

• The Perfect Office   September 2000 - describes how in the perfect law office all information would be available electronically, to remote users and simultaneously accessible to everyone that needed it.

• Creating Order Out of Chaos   December 1999 - electronic document management in a nutshell, including file management, version control, security and more.

• Automated Document Generation   September 1999 - the economic case for implementing automatic document generation software in the law office is presented.

• Portable Computing  June 1999 - the tools of the trade in portable computing identified and a description of their relative fitness for different tasks discussed.

• AUTOMATE THE MARKETING OF YOUR PRACTICE    February 1998 - an early article demonstrating how contact or practice management software can be used to increase your business.

Copyright [2003].  All rights reserved, except any article may be copied in its entirety, for non-profit usage, with proper attribution so long as a copy of said article, as reprinted, is sent to Mr. Atherton at P.O. Box 90, Northfield Falls, VT  05664.

Steven H. Atherton

The Digital Lawyer