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34 GPSolo 56 (2017)
Start-up Tech for Any Budget: 2017

handle is hein.journals/gpsolo34 and id is 226 raw text is: START-UP TECH FOR ANY I nthe January/February 20l4 issue of GPSolo we authored an article titled Start-up Tech for Any Budget, where we looked at what technol- ogy you could get for a new office if you had $1,000, $2,500, or $5,000 to spend. It's been more than three years since we last visited this topic, so we think it's time to take a look at what may have changed since then and what we recommend for lawyers who are looking to start up today (or just want to update their existing technology) and to share insight into our past and the technology challenges we faced getting started. INTRODUCTIONS To help frame the discussion, below is a brief recap of our backgrounds and why we are interested in technology. Nerino: I worked for a small firm in the early 1990s and then went out on my k own. When I went solo, I was unable to afford any support staff like I had at my old law firm, so I began using technol- ogy to make life easier in managing my practice. I got a used computer from my parents' business that had a 30 MB hard drive and used it with WordStar and my law school dot matrix printer to gener- ate correspondence-that was all I could afford. Initially, I used my computer to generate documents and kept daily handwritten timesheets. At the end of the month, I would type each time entry onto an invoice and mail it to my clients. It did not take too many months of hand typing time entries onto bills to see the beauty in a program that would track my time and client payments. However, upgrading to time and billing software required a new computer, and at that time the best deals on computers in my area came from Sam's Club, of all places. For those who were not out in the real word in the early to late 1990s, if you think tech is expensive now, you should : have lived back then-there was no such 56 GPSOLO I May/June 2017 Published in GPSOLO, Volume 34, Number 3, May/June 2017 © 2017 by the American Bar Association. Reproduced with permission. All rights reserved. This information or any portion thereof may not be copied or disseminated in any form or by any means or stored in an electronic database or retrieval system without the express written consent of the American Bar Association.

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