But don’t think like just any lawyer; think like your boss.

In my ongoing, ever-evolving, semi-regular series on building personal capital, I’m considering of one of the most effective ways to build lawyer

Sometimes I get discouraged at work, and I feel as if I’m being paid not to think. Mostly, this happens when I try to correct a lawyer’s grammar and get smacked down for my efforts. But

Personal capital is a term I came up with recently for something I’ve never gotten around to putting a name to before. I might well have heard that term someplace and forgotten, because Google assures me

The Virtual Chase offers this Robert Ambrogi article on vetting your expert. The best part is, many of the sources Ambrogi recommends are free, so legal secretaries can easily do this research for

Speaking of Google, check out productivity blog Dumb Little Man for 20 tips for more efficient Google searches. The list includes a few that I already knew about, but several

The latest new legal Web site is one I’m sure most lawyers will spurn as being beneath them. But since my blog isn’t for lawyers, I thought I’d mention the new site anyway.

Have you ever re-checked your table of contents page numbers, table of authorities page numbers, or cross-references in a complex Word document, only to find they weren’t quite right? One page number off here, a cross-reference

I’ve located a free download of the laser printer article

ACS Publications:  Particle Emission Characteristics of Office Printers

Scroll down to the bottom of the page for the chart that shows the HP, Ricoh, Mita,

A recent ABA Journal E-report Answers of the Week” features organizational suggestions solicited from and submitted by its attorney readers. Among the predictable suggestions are things like ring binders (although no mention of

Apologies if everyone but me already knew this, but I just had to share.

I recently discovered that I can drag and drop just about anything into my Outlook mail folders.

I used to regularly scan

A new Law.com article discusses some of Google’s advanced search features, as well as how to assess the reliability of a Web site. Learn how to fine-tune your searches using

Lifehacker features this clip from the Colbert Report featuring e-mail etiquette author Will Schwalbe. In his usual fine form, Mr. Colbert expounds on his love of all caps and decries those e-mails that

Need to share that Word document with a WordPerfect user? Never fear: Rich Text Format is here.

While it is possible to open a Word document in WordPerfect or vice versa, most people

When I started my current job a few years back, I was apprehensive about the workload. I knew the previous legal secretary had requested a transfer within the firm because she felt overwhelmed. And, when I

Does your attorney insist that pleadings be scanned in for e-filing rather than printed directly as PDFs, just so her real signature can appear, rather than “/s/”? We know that for e-filed documents, the attorney’s login

I don’t like those outside copy service reps. In my book, they rank about half a rung above used car salesmen. They dress too well for copy guys, their hair is too slick, and they bring

You really can capitalize — or de-capitalize — blocks of text at once with MS Word. Simply select the desired text and click Format, Change case. A small popup window will offer radio-button selections