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Building personal capital: Think like a lawyer
Building personal capital, part 2: Think first, and ask questions later
Building personal capital, part 1: Mea culpa
How to Vet an Expert
Mastering Google, 20 tips for more efficient Google searches
Laws and legislation in plain English
Microsoft Word: Goof-Proof and simplify complex documents in two easy steps
The Legal Secretary’s Twelve-Step Recovery Program
Particle Emission Characteristics of Office Printers
Adobe Acrobat: 30 Tips and Tricks
How do lawyers stay organized?
MS Outlook Drag and Drop files like PDF, Word documents, text files, tiffs, and even URLs
Sending the wrong email message (thanks, AutoComplete)
Google Services and all things Google
Instead of using the copy machine, scan to PDF and email it
Research: Harness the power of Google
Make the most of Microsoft Outlook
Keyboard shortcuts galore
Stephen Colbert on e-mail etiquette
Share word processing documents across applications
Streamline your work processes with technology and break free of unnecessary work
Docketing with Outlook 2003 part 2: Let Microsoft Outlook calculate dates for you
Creating an electronic transparent signature stamp for PDFs and e-filing
Bates numbering and appendix numbering – Adobe Acrobat Standard
MS Word tip: Change the case of your text without re-typing
Microsoft Outlook: Make those templates available in a flash
Excel Tutorial – Use Microsoft Excel to keep up with that ever-changing deposition schedule
PACER as a research tool
Good ECF habits: Electronic Case Filing, one further thought
ECF Procedures, Electronic Case Filing Best Practice
Find your airport with iFly – Airport Guide and Travel Resource
Docketing with Outlook: calculating X number of days before a given date
Set up a healthy, usable workspace
Microsoft Outlook: two kinds of templates for sending repetitive e-mails
Adding form fields to a PDF with Adobe Acrobat 7 Standard
Docketing with Outlook 2003 part 1: Let Microsoft Outlook calculate dates for you
How to help your boss cut airport security wait times
Don’t worry. Be happy – How to have a Good Work day
Anonymously review your current and past bosses, why eBossWatch is a Good Thing
Research: Keep Google from filtering out duplicate results
Microsoft Word: Use the Normal.dot template to change your default margins, fonts, and more
Legal Secretary’s – Finding time for yourself
Microsoft Word: make documents more dynamic with hyperlinks
Stop pen theft and decorate your desk, too.
12 tips for an organized desk
More productive and less stressed-out lawyer
Deadline and filing calculator tool
Tenure, is it really a legal secretary’s most important quailty?
Wink: seriously, a powerful new tool for research on people
Add a free medical dictionary to your Microsoft Word
Law firms listen up: Incompetence is expensive
Microsoft Word: Recovering lost files
Organize MS Outlook into folders to track cases and more
Is your resume ready for the Information Age?
Check your work quickly and easily using a recorder
The joys of collection and poetic justice
The most common error I see in pleading document titles
Lunch at your desk without getting pestered
What every new or aspiring legal secretary must know
The lawyer who has a lawyer for a client
Great source for Excel tutorials
MS Excel: Expand your date format choices
Know Excel, love Excel
The holiday gift follies
The comma: our most misunderstood punctuation mark
Effective Email Writing – 7 steps to becoming an e-mail pro
The best law firms for women
Personal capital: Inspire confidence
Outlook templates help goof-proof your docketing
The art of negative psychology
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Adobe Acrobat: 30 Tips and Tricks
The
Acrobat for Legal Professionals
blog offers a download — in PDF form, of course — of
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Instead of using the copy machine, scan to PDF and email it
It’s old news that no legal secretary with more than a week’s experience hands over an original letter, document, or
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Creating an electronic transparent signature stamp for PDFs and e-filing
Does your attorney insist that pleadings be scanned in for e-filing rather than printed directly as PDFs, just so her
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Bates numbering and appendix numbering – Adobe Acrobat Standard
I don’t like those outside copy service reps. In my book, they rank about half a rung above used car
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Adding form fields to a PDF with Adobe Acrobat 7 Standard
Acrobat Professional is a great program that lets you turn any PDF into a fillable form and print it, easy
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