The Oklahoma Bar Journal August 2022

If you use PowerPoint, Julie Bays has a couple of tips for you. First, you may have already noticed the improved design feature of PowerPoint that auto matically suggests designs for your PowerPoints. Julie was working on a slide that included the word “hat,” and when she looked for design suggestions, royalty-free images of hats were suggested. She also noted an improvement in the PowerPoint audio recording fea ture that now allows you to record your own voice narration with the audio saved slide-by-slide instead of one large continuous audio file. One tip all the presenters agreed on was the need for the use of a password manager and multifac tor authentication as an important security tool. MFA means even if someone learns your password, they still cannot get into your online account because they cannot access the other factor. Kenton suggested OnePassword 9 as his password man ager of choice. More sophisticated authentication and zero trust archi tecture will replace these tools over

I updated my article titled “Client: ‘Can My Parents Pay for My Attorney Fees?’, Lawyer: ‘Yes, but…’” 7 from several years ago and updated the language to include credit card refunds in my template agreement for use when parents are paying for their child’s divorce and similar situations. The template is a good starting place for you to draft your firm standard agreement. Some others suggest this language should be contained in the fee agreement. But I prefer a brief standalone agreement between attorney, client and litigation funder. If you don’t use one of these agreements and should or haven’t updated yours in a while, please review the arti cle and template. Do you use a VPN (virtual pri vate network) for additional security either on the road or working from home? If you are looking for a VPN, Brett Burney suggests you check out TunnelBear. 8 It is a VPN with a cute name and good rates. There is a free trial plan, and then unlimited plans start at $3.33 per month.

the next few years, but you should definitely now be using multifactor authentication on bank accounts, brokerage accounts and services containing client information. Thanks to all who spoke at, worked at and attended this year’s conference. We will let you know the date of next year’s conference when it is scheduled. Mr. Calloway is OBA Management Assistance Program director. Need a quick answer to a tech problem or help solving a management dilemma? Contact them at 405-416-7008, 800-522-8060 or jimc@okbar.org. It’s a free member benefit. 1. https://appsinlaw.com. 2. https://notability.com. 3. https://todo.microsoft.com/tasks. 4. https://ams.okbar.org/eweb/DynamicPage.aspx. 5. https://readdle.com/scannerpro. 6. “Logitech MX Mechanical Keyboard 7. “Client: ‘Can My Parents Pay for My Attorney Fees?’, Lawyer: ‘Yes, but…,’” OBJ October 2014, https://bit.ly/3RF8pYT. 8. https://www.tunnelbear.com. 9. https://1password.com. Review,” PC Magazine (June 12, 2022) https://bit.ly/3yGFdrz. ENDNOTES

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