I’ve been using two monitors for years, and I’d never go back. Click here for detailed instructions on setting this up. If you’re simply attaching an extra monitor to a laptop (as I do), here are simple instructions: Get a separate monitor. It doesn’t have to be fancy or expensive. You might even have one […]
If you’re a solo, what do you do when you need a hand with a case? For many, it’s a matter of finding other solos to collaborate with. Below, Susan Larsen and Cassandra Netzke discuss considerations if you’re going to work with other solo practitioners and the benefit of clients and colleagues. This is part […]
If you’ve never used two monitors, you’re missing out on a great productivity tool. After using two monitors for so many years, it would be very hard for me to go back to just one monitor. One of the things I miss most when I travel is the ability to use a second monitor. Enter […]
Printing from a Web page can be frustrating because you never know what’s actually going to print. You might get 10 sheets with each frame on a separate page, have two inches of text cut off on one side, find out that it prints eight pages, when you only wanted the information on page three, […]
By default, Word tries to save new documents in your “My Documents” folder on your C drive. Using the same logic, when you click on “Open” to open an existing document, it assumes the document is saved in the “My Documents” folder. Many of us (if not the majority) want to save documents somewhere other […]
Siddhartha H. Rathod and Qusair Mohamedbhai, partners at Rathod | Mohamedbhai LLC, recently offered their Dos and Don’ts of starting a law firm at a “Small Firms, Big Success” CLE. Solo in Colo caught up with them to hear what they think are the top Do and Don’t. Learn from them so you don’t run […]
Some projects have a way of growing on you, like pasta dishes or German Shepherds. Challenges that initially look simple can soak up half a day without a conclusion, or stay on your to-do list for months on end. Either these projects look easier, shorter, or simpler than they actually are, or they grow in […]
Word’s AutoCorrect feature automatically corrects commonly misspelled words on the fly, with no intervention on your part. Here are a couple tips that can save you time with your legal drafting: Did you know that you can create an AutoCorrect entry for words you often misspell? Even though Word includes hundreds of commonly misspelled words […]
Building on the trust and expertise groundwork you have capably demonstrated in a non-egotistical way in your attorney bio, you can go into more detail here to highlight your expertise, demonstrate trustworthiness, and show you can meet a potential client’s legal needs. Remember that good relationships are based on good provision of legal services, and […]
You probably already know that “deleted” rarely means it’s gone. If you have deleted an item in Microsoft Outlook, you can retrieve it from the Deleted Items folder. But what if you have emptied your Deleted Items folder, or permanently deleted the item directly from your Inbox so it never went to the Deleted Items […]