Jim Calloway
Director Management Assistance Program
Oklahoma Bar Association, Oklahoma City

Jim Calloway is an attorney from Oklahoma. He serves as the director of the Oklahoma Bar Association Management Assistance Program. He received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Oklahoma, where he was named to the Oklahoma Law Review. Mr. Calloway is a member of the American Bar Association, where he served as chair of the ABA TECHSHOW™ 2005 Board, after serving on the TECHSHOW™ board for three previous years. He is an active member of the ABA Law Practice Management Section and serves on the ABA LPM Section Council. He is also the chair of its Practice Management Advisors Committee. He is also an active member of the ABA’s General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Division, where he serves on the Solo Day and Road Show planning committees for the GPSSF Section. He also co-chaired the first two GP/Solo National Solo and Small Firm Conferences: October 2006 in Milwaukee and October 2007 in Philadelphia. As a part of his duties with the OBA, he designed and now manages the OBA-NET, the official online service of the Oklahoma Bar. He has made hundreds of presentations on law office management, legal technology, ethics, and legal business operations. He manages the annual OBA Solo and Small Firm Conference. He has been inducted as a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management. Mr. Calloway publishes the weblog, Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips, at http://jimcalloway.typepad.com This weblog was awarded the 2005 Technolawyer@Award for Favorite Practice Management Blog and was named one of the top 100 “Websites for Lawyers by Lawyers” by the ABA Journal magazine in its Blawg 100 in 2007. He also publishes, through his employer, the Starting a Law Practice Web Directory, online at http://www.okbar.org/members/map/practice.htm . Mr. Calloway also produces, with Sharon Nelson, the podcast, The Digital Edge: Lawyers and Technology. This podcast covers a number of legal technology issues and can be downloaded from http://www.okbar.org/members/map/practice.htm . He also published, with co-editor Mark Robertson, the book, Winning Alternatives to the Billable Hour: Strategies That Work, presently on sale through the ABA Law Practice Management Section, and was the author of two chapters in Flying Solo, 4th Edition (2005). Mr. Calloway has been a featured speaker at numerous events, including the ABA Annual Meetings from 1999 through 2007, ABA TECHSHOW 2000 through 2007, LegalTech Toronto and Dallas 2000, Pacific Legal Tech 2006, ACLEA Annual Meeting 2006, , and LegalTech New York 2006. He has done presentations for the National Association of Bar Executives and the National Council of Bar Presidents at their annual meetings. He has also spoken at state bar association meetings and seminars for the Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, Texas, South Carolina, and Utah state bar associations, as well as the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association. His articles have been published in Lawyers Weekly USA, Law Practice Management magazine, Law Technology News, LLRX.com, and GPSolo, as well as in many state and local bar association publications. Mr. Calloway is also a member of the National Association of Bar Executives, where he has served as chair of its Website Committee, Knowledge Management Committee, and Member Services Forum. Before taking his present position with the OBA, Mr. Calloway was in private practice for approximately sixteen years in south Oklahoma City and Norman, Oklahoma. He is a former president of the Cleveland County (Oklahoma) Bar Association. Many of Mr. Calloway’s articles are found at http://www.okbar.org/members/map/articleindex.htm.