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Last Entry: July 04, 2008 at 00:04:28

Reduce bloated PDFs with ease.

Posted on January 22, 2008
It’s happened to most of us: We’re handed a large color document and told to scan it and e-mail it. Or we receive large scanned deposition exhibits from a court reporter, and we have to find an efficient way of storing and using them. The problem is especially frustrating when we receive a large scan [...

ECF login = SIGNATURE

Posted on January 15, 2008
I never cease to be amazed at some lawyers’ failure to understand what an ECF login means. A dismayingly significant minority of them — mostly young lawyers who should be better acquainted with new technology than their older colleagues — can’t seem to get their heads around the fact that a lawyer’s ECF login is [...

Last-minute filings can turn into malpractice

Posted on January 09, 2008
As a legal secretary who has been kept late on many occasions and subjected to unreasonable stress on countless others due to lawyers waiting until the last minute to meet a filing deadline, I can’t help feeling a little schadenfreude at Morrison Foerster’s misfortune...

Why lawyers are unhappy

Posted on January 07, 2008
The focus of the current issue of The Complete Lawyer is “No Jerks Allowed!” Among the many good good articles on the subject of jerks, their causes and remedies (including one by Dr. Robert “No Asshole Rule” Sutton) is an especially enlightening piece by mediator Victoria Pynchon...

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My new year?s resolution

Posted on January 01, 2008
In 2007, I spent a lot of time getting angry at work. In any law office, incompetence, laziness, and cluelessness abound. After many years in the business, I’m convinced there is no way to escape this. There are only degrees of it, and my current firm has less than most...

The holiday gift follies

Posted on December 21, 2007
Over at Legality, we’ve been comparing notes on what everyone got for Christmas from their lawyers. Our membership includes legal secretaries and paralegals from across the country and from just about every firm size and practice area, and it turns out holiday generosity is just one more way in which every lawyer has his own ...

7 steps to becoming an e-mail pro

Posted on December 21, 2007
E-mail is perhaps the most-used means of communication in today’s law firms. It’s the only contact some people ever have with us. Yet too many people — legal staff included — don’t seem to take e-mail seriously as a communication medium...

The joys of collection and poetic justice

Posted on December 14, 2007
Over at Legality, we’ve been talking about how legal secretaries dislike being turned into bill collectors and having to call clients about past due invoices. In my last job before I went into legal (I was 23), I had to call and dun people who hadn’t paid their parents’ nursing home bills...

A holiday tale, plus some grousing

Posted on December 07, 2007
As I get into the holiday spirit, my thoughts turn to that odd intersection of life: Christmas and my law firm, and all the different types of holiday observations I’ve seen in nearly 16 years. My first holiday decision of this year was whether to attend the firm’s party...

Legal spelling dictionary for MS Word is in the works

Posted on December 03, 2007
A new reader writes: I just started reading your blog, and I wanted to thank you for all the useful information. I am a lawyer, but the firm I work in is very small, and so I am my own legal secretary as well, and the information you provide is very helpful...

Better shield yourself, Mr. Expert Witness

Posted on November 21, 2007
Mr. Expert, I know you think you’re really smart. Perhaps you are rather brilliant in your particular area of expertise. But let me tell you: Your superior intellect is not all-encompassing. You don’t include a table of contents with any of your reports, you clever thing, because of the boundless inconvenience it will cause adverse counsel as [...

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