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 [...]
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 [...]
I was reading Ross Kodner’s blog and he described a CLE presentation he had seen where David Ferrell, an attorney, had shown a sample PDF demand letter that had video included in it. Here’s Ross’s accolade:
In a demand letter related to personal injuries suffered by a Chinese melamine-laced formula poison infant, the video that popped up [...]
Continuing readers of legal blogs such as this one probably know how to create cross-references in their briefs and memos. With that knowledge, they don’t have to manually update their cross-references when they add or delete pages in their briefs and memos, thus changing the cross-referenced pages. Therefore, for most of you, the following is [...]