Technology

Microsoft Outlook 2003 and 2007 both allow you to set up an email form that will prevent recipients from forwarding your emails to anyone else as long as the sender and recipient both use Outlook.  Although there are ways of getting around this—the recipient could cut and paste the content of your email into another […]

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Lawyers have been quick to embrace the iPad and its various applications (known as apps) for use in the workplace. This is not surprising, given that legal work generally is very document-intensive and the iPad decreases the number of physical documents the lawyer must carry around. The iPad also enables lawyers to search through documents […]

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Earlier this month, the CBA introduced its members to the New Casemaker. This is Casemaker’s substantial upgrade from its 2.2 version research service. With enhanced performance capabilities and exciting new features, the New Casemaker further simplifies the way you research. It makes conducting a search, narrowing your results, and organizing your work easier than ever. […]

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You’re on the Internet, but you can’t get a website to pull up. It could be that the website is down, or it could be something on your end. Perhaps your Internet connection is down or is being slow, or maybe there’s a problem with your computer. You could have too many Internet temporary files, […]

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The video-conference deposition itself sounds like a great idea.  After all, we were supposed to have flying cars and robot maids by now.  However, the reality of video-conference deposition reveals many, many challenges. The first and most obvious challenge is the technology. Through trial and error, I would always suggest using a court reporter’s office, […]

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When you’re in Microsoft Outlook 2007 and you’re adding contacts that work at the same company (or you’re adding an additional contact with the same company), you can save yourself the steps of re-entering the company’s name, address, phone number, fax number, and other company details each time you create a new contact. Here’s how: […]

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This is the final installment of our hero’s journey, and I’m combining the three Rs of the journey: Reward, Road Back, and Return with Elixir. This sounds pretty amazing doesn’t it?  I think we should cue The Lord of the Rings’ “Return of the King” for this occasion. The end – or is it just […]

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We often work on a Microsoft Word document over a period of several days or even weeks. There are a number of ways to make it easy to open a document you recently worked on. You could look through your directories to find it, you could create an icon and save it on your desktop, […]

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The New York Times has a great blog on personal technology called Gadgetwise.  I highly recommend it.  According to their website:  “Gadgetwise is a blog about everything related to buying and using tech products. From figuring out which gadget to buy and how to get the best deal on it to configuring it once it’s […]

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