Lawyers Right Hand http://www.lawyersrighthand.com Tutorials, tips on career, excellence and work/life balance for legal secretaries Sat, 14 Aug 2010 03:41:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Building personal capital: Think like a lawyer http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/building-personal-capital-think-like-a-lawyer.htm?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=building-personal-capital-think-like-a-lawyer http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/building-personal-capital-think-like-a-lawyer.htm#comments Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:22:35 +0000 admin http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/?p=220

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 trust:

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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

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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

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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 their

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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 were new

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]]> http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/research-mastering-google.htm/feed 0 Laws and legislation in plain English http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/laws-and-legislation-in-plain-english.htm?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=laws-and-legislation-in-plain-english http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/laws-and-legislation-in-plain-english.htm#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:10:51 +0000 admin http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/?p=277

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. Readable

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]]> http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/laws-and-legislation-in-plain-english.htm/feed 0 Microsoft Word: Goof-Proof and simplify complex documents in two easy steps http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/microsoft-word-goof-proof-and-simplify-complex-documents-in-two-easy-steps.htm?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=microsoft-word-goof-proof-and-simplify-complex-documents-in-two-easy-steps http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/microsoft-word-goof-proof-and-simplify-complex-documents-in-two-easy-steps.htm#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:05:22 +0000 admin http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/?p=129

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

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]]> http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/microsoft-word-goof-proof-and-simplify-complex-documents-in-two-easy-steps.htm/feed 2 The Legal Secretary’s Twelve-Step Recovery Program http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/the-legal-secretary%e2%80%99s-twelve-step-recovery-program.htm?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-legal-secretary%25e2%2580%2599s-twelve-step-recovery-program http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/the-legal-secretary%e2%80%99s-twelve-step-recovery-program.htm#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:59:58 +0000 admin http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/?p=323 1. We admitted we were legal secretaries — that our lives (a third of them, a least) were completely dominated by the whims of lawyers.

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could make us stop seeing…

]]> http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/the-legal-secretary%e2%80%99s-twelve-step-recovery-program.htm/feed 0 Particle Emission Characteristics of Office Printers http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/laser-printer-particle-emission-characteristics-of-office-printers.htm?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=laser-printer-particle-emission-characteristics-of-office-printers http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/laser-printer-particle-emission-characteristics-of-office-printers.htm#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:16:26 +0000 admin http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/?p=317

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,

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]]> http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/laser-printer-particle-emission-characteristics-of-office-printers.htm/feed 0 Adobe Acrobat: 30 Tips and Tricks http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/adobe-acrobat-30-tips-and-tricks.htm?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=adobe-acrobat-30-tips-and-tricks http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/adobe-acrobat-30-tips-and-tricks.htm#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:08:19 +0000 admin http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/?p=205 The Acrobat for Legal Professionals blog offers a download — in PDF form, of course — of 30 Dirty Tricks for Acrobat 8. The tips, which were developed for a recent seminar, include such gems as…

]]> http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/adobe-acrobat-30-tips-and-tricks.htm/feed 0 How do lawyers stay organized? http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/how-do-lawyers-stay-organized.htm?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-do-lawyers-stay-organized http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/how-do-lawyers-stay-organized.htm#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:06:12 +0000 admin http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/?p=159

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 the

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]]> http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/how-do-lawyers-stay-organized.htm/feed 0 MS Outlook Drag and Drop files like PDF, Word documents, text files, tiffs, and even URLs http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/ms-outlook-drag-and-drop-files-like-pdf-word-documents-text-files-tiffs-and-even-urls.htm?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ms-outlook-drag-and-drop-files-like-pdf-word-documents-text-files-tiffs-and-even-urls http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/ms-outlook-drag-and-drop-files-like-pdf-word-documents-text-files-tiffs-and-even-urls.htm#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:05:06 +0000 admin http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/?p=110

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

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]]> http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/ms-outlook-drag-and-drop-files-like-pdf-word-documents-text-files-tiffs-and-even-urls.htm/feed 0 Sending the wrong email message (thanks, AutoComplete) http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/sending-the-wrong-email-message-thanks-autocomplete.htm?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sending-the-wrong-email-message-thanks-autocomplete http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/sending-the-wrong-email-message-thanks-autocomplete.htm#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:33:47 +0000 admin http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/?p=114 Admit it. At some point, you have sent an e-mail to the wrong recipient. You sent a copy of an order to Joe Rosencrantz rather than Joe Guildenstern. Another gotcha!, courtesy of AutoComplete.

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]]> http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/google-services-and-all-things-google.htm/feed 1 Instead of using the copy machine, scan to PDF and email it http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/instead-of-using-the-copy-machine-scan-to-pdf-and-email-it.htm?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=instead-of-using-the-copy-machine-scan-to-pdf-and-email-it http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/instead-of-using-the-copy-machine-scan-to-pdf-and-email-it.htm#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:21:44 +0000 admin http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/?p=207 http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/instead-of-using-the-copy-machine-scan-to-pdf-and-email-it.htm/feed 1