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FutureLawyer Office For The Next Three Hours.

Dropped the RV off at Camping World in Tampa this morning for installation of Air Ride springs, which will make the old beast more comfortable on the highways. We also need to check out the Leveling Jacks, wbich are driving us crazy with beeping, even when retracted. But, not to worry. The FutureLawyer can practice law anywhere, and, for the next several hours, my office is here at Cracker Barrel, just down the highway from Camping World. A hearty breakfast and good conversation with Diane, and we will be back on our way in no time. RV lawyers don't waste a minute of this precious life. Enjoy yours today.

Want To Be An RV Lawyer? You Will Need This Printer.

Real work on the road requires the ability to make print copies of documents and correspondence. Paper is still used in the modern law practice, and pleadings and correspondence still get sent through the mail. For my RV office, I use the Canon Pixma 110 printer, which plugs into a standard USB port, and gets the job done in a small footprint. Much legal work is done these days in the cloud, from efiling, creating documents, and emailing them. But, paper is still essential, and a portable printer is essential.

 

Get Some Continuing Legal Education Credit By Attending The Tech Symposium At The Florida Bar Convention.

Florida Bar Convention CLE Opportunities. If you are looking to learn about the effect of technology on law practice, check out the Committee on Technology and Legal Fuel's Symposium next week at the Convention. You don't have to attend the live presentation; although, I am giving the first session on using tech to practice law on the road, and I would love to see you. I will be taking questions, along with the rest of the presenters at the Convention. If you can't get to Orlando, you can attend via Zoom, or watch the recorded sessions in July. I am writing this post from my desk in my RV which is parked in the KOA Kissimmee RV Park until Tuesday, when I will move the beast to Ft. Wilderness at DisneyWorld.

This Little Charger Belongs In Every Road Warrior's Bag.

MoPoint 65 Watt GaN Charger.  I like this little charger so much, I bought two. For $49.99, this tiny little charger can simultaneously charge a phone, notebook computer, and tablet, and is only about two inches square. GaN tech has changed chargers forever. Gallium nitride, or GaN, is a material that's starting to be used for semiconductors in chargers. It was used to make LEDs starting in the '90s, and it's also a popular material for solar cell arrays on satellites. The main thing about GaN when it comes to chargers is that it produces less heat. Less heat means components can be closer together, so a charger can be smaller than ever before—while maintaining all the power capabilities and safety standards. I keep one plugged in at the RV, with cables inserted, so that when I travel, I just need my ultralight tablet, and plug in the charger along with my phone and tablet. The other one I carry in my briefcase, on the off chance that I need it when running around. What's in your Road Warrior bag?

Why We Bought A Portable Ice Machine For The RV

RV Travel And Gas Prices.

Maybe I don't have to restrict my RV travel after all. There is always a solution to every problem.

Elon Musk And SpaceX Launch Starlink For RVs.

Starlink RV. As I prepare for my presentation on Mobile Lawyering next month at the Florida Bar Convention, with Michelle Gilbert, a new wrinkle has been added that fits in with the title of the Presentation - "Wanderlust". Aside from the desire to travel to avoid human contact during a Pandemic, I have always striven to adopt technology that allowed me to be a lawyer wherever I was. I have done legal work in hotels, motels, lobbies, airport lounges, automobiles, and many other locations around the U.S. I have transferred files from a payphone in Yosemite National Park in California. I have checked email in an Internet Cafe in Alaska, and communicated over the Internet from a Cruise Ship. Nowadays, when traveling in an RV, I use mobile Internet provided by TMobile, using a small device that provides broad band Internet speeds using the new 5G network. But, while TMobile gives me Internet in 99% of America, what about the really wild and rural parts of the country? While still pretty expensive, at $135 a month, the growing Starlink satellite system provides unlimited Internet access in most of the Western U.S. and is growing daily. I don't need it yet; but, it is clear that Starlink is the true future of Internet access for those who live in rural areas. You can get a portable dish for $599, and get great service if you are in an area being serviced. There are bumps and bruises for early adopters; but, the promise of truly universal Internet broadband access is a real thing.

The FutureLawyer Has Been Doing RV Law For Many Years.

Here is the whole post from 9 years ago:

Sunday Morning Fun. I am always looking for ways to show my readers the benefits of new technology. So, when I got my RV back after having the engine rebuilt (long story), I parked it in front of the house this weekend to work on it. It cost $98 to fill the gas tank (I think gas was $1.50 a gallon when I had it last), and $150 to update the Registration; but I am willing to go the extra mile for my readers. Photo One shows the ancient beast sitting in my front yard. It occurred to me that the old road warrior still had some life in her. Nobody in my family will set foot in it, since they are afraid it will break down again. Oh, they of little faith. But, it occurred to me that that wasn't necessarily a bad thing. I had dreams of solitary weekends in the great outdoors, with a comfortable bed and air conditioning waiting for me at night, and listening to the birds and the animals all night long, and fishing or swimming all day. But, I digress. How could I survive without Internet access? How could I show my readers what it is like to be in the wild? Then, I discovered the old 32 inch LCD TV I had left in the coach. Eureka! As you know, I just bought a small, light Chromebook last week, and the Acer model C7 has an HDMI out port. So, just for fun, I plugged the Chromebook into the TV, and found that my front yard has access to my home DSL router. Internet! This post is being written on the RV desk, while I am in the front yard communing with nature through the RV window. Photo Two shows what it looks like to camp out in the FutureLawyer universe.

Hey! I could park this thing in the Courthouse parking lot, and practice law out of it? This reminds me of the Seventies TV series, Petrocelli. If you are too young to remember it, look it up. Or, when we thought a great adventure was camping out in the back yard! Oh, youth. Oh, happy days. I think I feel a solo road trip coming on.

My Next RV Will Be A Spaceship.

Postcard From The Future.

InseeGo MiFi 5G Hotspot - Don't Leave Home Without It.

t-mobile-inseego-5g-mifi-m2000 In the early days of the Internet, RV travel lacked an important function for traveling lawyers. In the Nineties, when the Internet was necessary to keep in touch with the office and my law matters, I was plagued with the nagging feeling that I had no control over what might happen in my absence. I remember returning from one vacation in the days before the Internet, and I found out that a matter had blown up, and gotten worse because I couldn't be reached. Then, as time passed, I got better at creating portable device solutions, and connected via early modems. I once sent an email to the office using a huge 300 baud modem with a handset that hooked to a payphone in Yosemite National Park's giftshop parking lot. I once spent an hour rummaging around under a motel room bed so I could hook up a modem to the room phone line. Then, when WiFi started becoming more ubiquitous, I could connect to hotel and RV campground systems; but, as we all know, public WiFi is not secure, and RV campground WiFi is usually slow and spotty. Through decades of effort, however, and with the advent of the greatest Internet wireless speed increase in history, the time of fast 5G broadband is here. Now, I can carry broadband speed with me wherever I go, and T-Mobile's almost total coverage of the continental U.S. makes me a mobile warrior wherever I go. I can check and respond instantly to Emails and texts. I can research, and prepare and file pleadings in any County in the State of Florida, from anywhere in the U.S. I can watch TV anywhere I go. The price, all things considered, borders on insignificant. 100 Gigabytes of data for $50 a month. That allows me to use the 5G Inseego MiFi device continuously for several weekends a month. I just plug it in when we park the RV, turn it on, and connect two TVs, a computer, monitor and peripherals, and an interior security camera, and a Waggle dog monitor that monitors internal temperature in the RV. I also have a couple of Bluetooth powered soundbars that fill the coach with surround sound. I will be traveling with this setup for the Florida Attorney's Title Fund Convention, and the Florida Bar Convention in June, and will be presenting the Wanderlust - How To Be A Digital Nomad presentation with Michelle Gilbert at the Bar Convention. If you want to be as effective an advocate on the road as you are in your office, pay attention. The tech is here now. Since I don't do much litigation anymore (I am old), I haven't had the opportunity to do hearing practice via Zoom from a remote location; but, the tech is available. So, saddle up, road warrior. Free yourself from the constraints of place. You can be a lawyer wherever you happen to be.