I suspect many law firms have typewriters squirreled away somewhere just to fill in forms.
Ross Kodner, computer guru extraordinaire, has an article about how Acrobat Standard, Professional or Professional Extended editions can be used as a typewriter to fill in those forms. He gives very detailed step-by-step instructions about how to save the forms as pdfs [...]
The ABA Techshow was recently held at the Chicago Hilton located at 720 South Michigan Avenue. Even though the ABA got a discount on the normal room rate, it still cost attendees $199 per night.
While I was at the conference, I started speaking with someone who was attending who could not have afforded that rate. He [...]
What happens when you send a letter to someone and that person has moved? Your letter will automatically get forwarded for the first 12 months after the service. But you won’t get the person’s new address.
Here’s how you can have the Post Office automatically send you the new address: Just place “Address Service Requested” on [...]
All of us – or at least most of us – have heard of Dragon NaturallySpeaking and its use as voice recognition software in law offices.
But there are many more uses for Nuance Corporation’s Dragon!!
Uses outside of a law office
I read a while back about how a husband whose wife was deaf was using Dragon to [...]
The New York Times recently had an article on techniques people use to show they were busy so they wouldn’t get fired: “Working Hard To Look Busy.” A lawyer in the New York office of an international firm had a creative approach. Perhaps putting aside other issues, he wanted to have the lights in his office on in the [...]
Let’s assume that you live in Toledo, Ohio. Also assume that the state legislature, to induce an automobile manufacturer to construct an assembly plant, has authorized tax incentives, which, together with other tax incentives, will total perhaps $280 million. The trouble is that your client has a business which will be displaced if the proposed [...]
I just learned of OR-live, a site that shows tapes of surgeons performing surgery and includes running commentary from physicians.
You can browse the site’s archives by its 17 separate specialities, such as, for instance, cardiovascular/cardiothoracic, gastroenterology, neurological/neurosurgical, obgyn, and orthopaedics. You can also browse the archives by the name of the institution where the surgery [...]
I have reported in a number of postings that the way to reduce the number of medical malpractice suits is to reduce the amount of medical malpractice. Here, for instance, are a couple of my postings:
“Here’s one out-of-the-box way to reduce medical malpractice suits: Reduce the medical malpractice — A new study reports that an [...]
Zabasearch is a new people-finding and age-finding search engine. You can enter someone’s name - - and their state if you know it - - and you will probably (I surmise by my tests) get the year and maybe the month of their birth. You can probably also get both their current and some former [...]