A Legality member recently discovered how to deter her lawyers and coworkers from bothering her when she’s lunching at her desk.
Few law offices — even…
Archive for April, 2009
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Lunch at your desk without getting pestered
I spent today thinking of things I wish someone had told me when I got my first legal job. A lot of those things,…
Familiarize yourself with local rules. Look them up and/or seek advice from local counsel, and don’t make local counsel continually remind you of basic requirements.…
Geek site Tech on the Net has an Excel section that’s rich in short tutorials. It’s helpfully subdivided by topic and even includes a question…
Don’t like Excel’s default date format choices? There are other options. They just happen to be buried in a counterintuitive area of the cell…
My favorite tech blog, Lifehacker, recently posted this Excel tips and tricks roundup. Tons of great stuff there, including a Microsoft Excel tutorial for…
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…
Many lawyers seem to think that commas are theirs to do with as they please. Not so. There are actually rules on when and…
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…
Working Mother magazine and Flex-Time Lawyers have announced the first annual ranking of the best law firms for women. The rankings are based on the firms’…
You might be an error-free, 100-word-a-minute typist and a Microsoft Word whiz. You might have a photographic memory and an encyclopedic knowledge of court…
Some judges have an annoying tendency to issue orders that effectively change the local rules as they apply to one particular case. For any…
Psychology Today features a short, quick piece on negative psychology, which “is often used to make a request seem less infringing,” through apologetic language…
