Having a mobile office sounds like a great idea at least until it’s time to take your smartphone, notebook, tablet, digital camera, batteries, cables, memory cards and everything else along on a business trip. At that point, your gadget collection which grows larger each year as new "must have" devices are released begins to look more like a millstone than a portable productivity resource.
Yet it doesn’t have to be that way, says Randall M. Kessler, a Marietta, Ga., attorney who flies out of town at least twice a month to deliver family law lectures to attorneys, judges, accountants, financial advisors and others. Like other lawyers who spend a great deal of time on the road, Kessler understands that careful planning can make traveling with tech as worry-free as it was in the days of payphones and portable typewriters only much more convenient and productive.