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Outlook is the most used application in Microsoft Office, but are you using it to your greatest advantage? The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007 is the only guide written specifically for lawyers to help you be more productive, more efficient and more successful. More than just email, Outlook is also a powerful task, contact, and scheduling manager that will improve your practice. From helping you log and track phone calls, meetings, and correspondence to archiving closed case material in one easy-to-store location, this book unlocks the secrets of underappreciated features that you will use every day. Written in plain language by a twenty-year veteran of law office technology and ABA member, you'll find: Tips and tricks to effectively transfer information between all components of the software; The eight new features in Outlook 2007 that lawyers will love; A tour of major product features and how laywers can best use them; Mistakes lawyers should avoid when using Outlook; What to do when you're away from the office.
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Ben M. Schorr is a technologist and Chief Executive Officer for Roland Schorr & Tower a professional consulting firm headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii with offices in Los Angeles, California; Flagstaff, Arizona and Astoria, Oregon. In that capacity he consults with a wide variety of organizations including many law firms. He is frequently sought as a writer, teacher and speaker for groups as diverse as the Hawaii Visitor and Convention Bureau and the American Bar Association. More than 16 years ago Microsoft named him as an MVP in their Outlook product group and he has been supporting Outlook, Exchange and most recently OneNote ever since.
Prior to co-founding Roland Schorr, Schorr was the Director of Information Services for Damon Key Leong Kupchak Hastert, a large Honolulu law firm, for almost 8 years.
Schorr was a contributing author for "Using Microsoft Office 2000" by Que and has been a technical editor or contributor on a number of other books over the years. For several years he was half of the "Ask the Exchange Pros" team for Windows Server System magazine. He is the author of several books on Microsoft Office which are published by the American Bar Association.
In October of 2005 Schorr was named by the Pacific Technology Foundation as one of the Top 50 Technology Leaders in Hawaii. He's a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' (IEEE) Computer Society, the American Bar Association and the United States Naval Institute.
In his free time Schorr enjoys coaching football, reading, playing softball, cooking and is a marathoner and Ironman triathlete. His dog is not impressed.
Ben has done an excellent job in presenting a clear and concise book about various features of Outlook 2007. He doesn't cover every single feature of Outlook 2007, but hits all the ones that a typical attorney would find useful. His writing style is simple and easy to follow, sometimes with a bit of humor thrown in. I considered myself to be pretty knowledgeable concerning the Office Suite products, but Ben showed me a few tricks that I was unaware of. Several of his examples caused me to change the way I use Outlook, making me more efficient in organizing and controlling e-mail.
The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007 is easy to read. Ben Schorr has written it so even a beginner would understand,not like most computer books I've read. It is titled the Lawyer's Guide to ... but I would recommend this book to anyone in the legal field. I have taken a class on Outlook and found information in this book that instructors never mentioned. If you have an older version of Outlook on your computer you can still use this guide an apply the information . This will find a permanent place in my library. The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007
This book is a great idea, if only it actually had the information you need in order to use Outlook 2007. It completely leaves out the Business Contact Manager, which is, by far, the most important part of Outlook for lawyers and the most complicated to get familiar with. Even worse, the book's chapter on integrating Outlook with the other Microsoft Office Suite programs is a complete joke. For Word, the book only addresses mail merging. That's it. It doesn't even touch on Microsoft Accounting, which can be integrated with Outlook through the Business Contact Manager, but once again, the book does not even address the business contact manager. This book is only useful to the most basic user with no idea who to turn on their computer, but honestly, you could learn just as much doing the tutorials on the microsoft website.
I give the book two stars because the author does have a few decent ideas, but these are almost an afterthought. The book will not truly help you run your law practice in the most efficient way.
